The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-07
Fairfield County News.
Under 5000 Bonds

Mrs Harriet Beebe of Cornwall
Bridge. who was arrested Sunday
night charged with forgery. was held
for trial under bonds of 5000, after a
hearing in the Danbury City court
Monday. Mrs. Beebe was taken into
custody when her son, Louis F. Beebe
"a years old, was arrested on a charge
Of abduction following his marriage to
Is year old May Dennis of Dover
Plains. The forgery charge grew out
of the fact that when the marriage
license was refused to Beebe and Miss
Dennis, Mrs. Beebe signed her consent
ito, the girls marriage, representing
herself to be the girls mother, Mrs.
Beebe claims that she was asked to
represent the girls mother by the
girl and her son and that she acted
innocently in so doing.
Reunion of Brothers.
A happy reunion took place Satur-
day night at the home of John Reed
in Norwalk when he and his brother,
James W. Reed, met for the first
time since they were small boys, twen-
tyen-seven years ago. Their mother
died in New York city and stepmoth-
err caused their separation. James w.
Reed was sent to Kansas and was
brought up by a farmer. Neither of
the brothers knew the whereabouts
of the other Each wrote to the 9TH
er. but always the letters were re-
turned by the dead letter office. John
Reed was speaking of it one day this
summer to George w. Lynch, who un-
dertook to find the brother in the
west. BY a system of chain letters
Mr. Lynch located him in Brandon,
Colo. James w. Reed is now presi-
dent Of the Brandon, Colorado. Real
Estate and Irrigation Co., and also
owns two farms in Kansas and
ranch in Colorado.
Stove Tossed Out.
Had it not been for the quick action
of Arthur Saunders, an employee in
the storage warehouse of the Holmes,
Keller and Selleek Co.. Norwalk, Sat-
urday, it is likely that the entire
place would have been consumed by
flames. The trouble came from an oil
heater. In the rear of the lower
floor there is small room used for
the ripening of bananas. Here green
bananas are strung up and the tenn
perature raised until they ripen. A
gas heater is usually employed to
furnish the necessary heat. Black
smoke was noticed by Mr.. Saunders
issuing in dense clouds from the door
of the banana room. Sliding the huge
door open he saw the oil heater in
flames and at the risk Of being severe
Nv burned. he pulled the heater from
it's place, throwing it out of back
window.
Shot And Killed.
Patrick Fahey, engaged in the mar
BILE and granite business was killed in
a barn on his premises at Springdale,
Sunday Joseph Heider, an employee
of Fahey, is being held without bail.
charged with the crime. The police
saw quarrel between Fahey and
Heider proceeded the shooting. 1t is
understood that Heider denies there
that the shooting was accidental
"I took the gun to shoot black cat"
he told a man who helped arrest him.
81 didn't mean to shoot Mr.. Fahey
I stumbled and fell and the gun went
off, The gun which snuffed out Mr.
Fahey's life belonged to his son,
Joseph 1t had been in the barn a
number of months
Large Barn Burned \
A large hay, cattle and horse barn
on the farm Of Mrs. Capitola Barnum.
in Pembroke district Danbury, was
burned to the ground Saturday even
ing, a large wood-house, a chicken
coop fences and other property were
destroyed and the house only by the
prompt and efficient work of about
fifty neighbors. 1t is considered
probable that the fire was the WORK
IF tramps. Mrs. Barnum had been in
the custom of allowing them to sleep
On the main floor of the barn. Forty
.ons of hay were consumed and many
agricultural implements, wagons and
carriages were burned. The hay is a |
.otal loss, while the barn and imple-
nents were partially covered by in
suranca,