Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-30
Large in Membership and Prospects of Contin-
 ual Prosperity
MAHANs MANIFOLD PROGRESSIVE IDEAS
With tke Mayor Calm Always Precedes ActivityCharey Browns Career-The Eleventh Artillery Band will
 be Permitted to Serve Public and Private Functions

were in the vicinity Of the boys bOmA, and in fact a1Is own house was 6rsd.
 picion that young Brown was the fire bug and he was arrested on one com plaint and bound over for trial in the superior court. When relaJtives of6ere q to furnish bonds they were advised not to do so, as other complaints would be immediately made and the boy would be arrested. So he went to jail. Be- fore the superior court convened he
 was released from custody on cendi : tion that he would leave the country. This agreement was made and dt was
 planned for the boy to take up his residence with his grandfa<her in general favorite among those who knew him best. this action did not cause very severe criticism.
 Charley was next heard from in Providence . short while after his re Isase, whore he was doing inosudisry work on . large scale. hav1ng been eyee snspeceed t, of % rSuch,ns ing om ne tsas than gan to believe that he was not such q bad boy after all, aA dhe was not re sponsibie for his acts by reason of an unbalanced mind.
 In Providence he was indicted for setting fire to a dwelling houss July 10. 1908. and with setting fire to a. harm ten days afterward. He was tried be- fore a jury on Nov. 10, fses, and
 
 sanity was returned tn both cases, and he was committed to the Rhode Island state hospital for the insane He made his escape soon thereafter. but was promptly returned. only to escape again and had been away from the in .. stitution about a year whan he was captured by State Policeman Rudd and returned to the instdtution.
 Brown petitioned the supreme court for a writ of hsbeas corpus for reieass . ing the petition was granted Super intendent Harrington of the 0eAae In stitution and pr. Frederick B. Jowstt, superintendent of the hospital. texti- fled that in their opinion Brown had recovered from his mental amict1on and should be allowed his liberty. The court held thnf> no. cause had boon shSwn for z, the ne, further ,mprso s sst or ordered discharged. This will be cheering news to the friends of Brown. who will be glad to learn of flAs recov- cry from the nAdady that has been the cause of his wronsdoanE. A@
 Lisut. Col. w. C. Rafsrty, esrn- nsanding the New London Coast srtiI- Iery district has finally prebed tks the much .vexed question raised by the musical union and hereafter the Eleventh. Artillery hand win be per mitted to furnish music whenever re- quircos Of1ef6 10 me couNY3fy UaYfut been revoked. He has finally dAscov- cred that there is no band 1n the city with which the military band would compete and th1rz is but one union orchestra in the city, and that is too small to furnish proper music fn large hans. The colonel declares that the band win only be permitted to pkny where the full band ts needed and that no portion of the hand can be secured to serve as an orchestra as that might be construed as competing with regularly organized civSSan or chestra. as that is prohibited by law. He advocates competition, however. not in prices. but competition in quality of music t0ra< would be ben
 The members of the focal rnusicians' union have been very active in. oppos- ing the military band, and on severn occasions have inconventeneed orGna- nations and put them to increAssd ex- pense by forcing them to hire musf- clans from elsewhere, as the local musicians were not considered com petent, as now organized, to furnish music.
 Had these same musicians. most Of them engaged fn other business. ussd ,ne-hak the energy displayed In ng1ht- ng the military band to the formation 1f band of local musicians, the com nander of the coast artillery district could not truly say that there was no were more lrHtod and dn harmony with each other there would 1e a credftable brass band in New london, every orchestra in the city would be unionized, and there would be 10 need for action against the band rom Fort Wright, as then it would bs ! matter clearly regulated by law.