The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-16
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Fairfield County News.
Thief Quickly. Caught.

A thief who drove away from Dan bury, Thursday afternoon with a val uable horse and carriage belonging to Frank P. Farrell, was Thursday ev- ening in W1ngdale, N. Y. The man is known as Arthur Mcdonald of Wor- cester, Mass: MeDonald was sent drive MT. F1arrell's rig to his resi- dence. From there he took MT. Far rell to the Danbury company's fac tory and was instructed to return the horse and carriage to the stable. In- stead of going to the stable he took a companion into the carriage and drove away. The team was recovered Found Black Pearl. Ernest Britto, one of the openers at | theStevens Oyster Company plant in 1 Rowayton. recently found black was reported his find was worth s1,- 000 This, however, appears to be an | inflated value, according to MT. Bris- to's experience with local jeweler ed that the jewe1er informed him the polishing would cost about as much as the pearl is worth. The jeweler said l it would have been quite valuable but | for rough spots on it.
 Smelt at Westport. | The fishermen who yearly get large quantities of smelt from the Sauga- 1 tuck river are again on the job in I who have been fishing for the past few | days have been rather disappointed. | great the river is thought to be accountable | in some measure for the small catches. On Friday 12 men, with three seines ] caught nine pounds. There are good reasons for the falling off in the smelt supply as last year the work of the seiners was greatly hampered by a number of fishermen who went to the upper King street bridge and took all the fish that went there to spawn. This practice has been kept up for sew era1 years, with the result that the l &.,I- 71 (7 rNn6 | off each year. By an enactment pass ed on the 24th, of last June no one can draw seine above the dock of the Atlantic Starch works, or a line diagonalIy across to what is known as Taylor's dock. This will stop the taking of spawn fish and next year the westport river. This new law af- fects fishing of all kinds, not smelt alone.
 Saved Chi1d's Life | But for the a1ertness and good judg- ment exercised by Motorman Edward 1 Bedell of the Norwalk trolley lines. | last week, Helen Underhill, the three year old daughter of Mr. Harry 9ne Un met instant death under the wheels of a trolley car. The child suddenly dashed across the street, with only about two lengths in which to act. NIotorman Beden threw on every notch of power in the car. backwards. The fender struck the child's leg, and l of the way of the wheels Little Hel- en was not injured with the exception of a few scratches.
 Joy Killed Her.
 Killed by excessive joy'' was the opinion in the case of Mrs. Mary E. Hendrick, who dropped dead in South Norwa1k last week Mrs. Hendrick had just received $5,ooO in cash for some property. As the bills were flushed and when the last yellowback dropped Mrs. Hendirck gave a sigh 1 and sank to the floor. She never spoke or moved afterward. She was 50 years old.
 1 A s25o, 900 Bridge. | Norwalk, last week voted an expend- | iture of $25O,000, at a special town meeting for a concrete arch bridge to | take the place of the antiquated Wash l IS nays.
 Injured in Fire. 1 Martin Foley, a farm hand, was se- verely burned about the face, and breast and sustained a broken arm as a result of a fire which consumed the 1 barn owned by R. H. Weaver of Da- rien early Monday. It is believed that l Foley lay down on his bed with a lighted pipe in his mouth and went to sleep. The loss is estimated at about
 LOGO and it is understood that this
 is covered with insurance.
 A barn on the property of Edward Mansfield, at Greenwich. buened Sun day shortly before a. m. How the
 fire originated is a mystery. It is un- derstood that the loss is covered by | the insurance.
 westport's Grand List.
 The work of the board of relief and
 town of Westport. and the grand list
 as revised for 1909 is $4,232,218. Ac-
 cording to the books there is only $5,- 800 at interest in the town.