The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-06
NO EVIDENCE
 OF MURDER IN
 TRAMP'S FIGHT
Police Search Black Rock All Morning Investigating
 Connolly's Story
Two Wayfarers Said to Have Been Set Upon and Beaten
 While Sleeping in Barn

Though Superintendent BirminS- ham, Captain Arnold and several po- Hcemen and detectives secured Black Rock from an early hour until al- most noon today for traces of John Williams, a tramp supposed to have been slain by unknown men, no evil dence of foul play could be found, nor could any clue to Williams where abouts be disclosed.
 Whether the wayfarer has gone on his way, or his body has been dis posed of in some out of the way place, the police have not been able to decide. But John Connolly, a pal of the missing man. was convinced that Williams had been murdered, and he would not be reassured.
 The scene of the nocturnal battle which the police are investigating to- day is in barn on the Wilson place, west of the acid works in Black Rock, in the town of Fairfield. It is not far over the division line between Bridgeport and Fairfield however, outset just where the supposed mur- der was committed, kept up their in- vestigation though it brought them outside of their Jurisdiction
 First information of the affray came to the authorities at o'clock
 
 ed into police headquarters At first he was thought to be intoxicated, but when he started to tell his story 1t was readily seen that he wa$Aper- fectly sober, but suffering from ex- haustion.
 Connolly said he and Williams were tramping from Stamford to- wards Bridgeport when at o'clock last night they went into the barn to spend the night. It was about 2 o'clock this morning, he believes, when the two were awakened by two men who entered the barn.
 You've been hanging around here three months, you fellows" said one of the twain, to Connolly and Will jams. 'It's time you got out of here"
 Without further barley they at clubs beat them brutally. Connolly says they displayed pistols as we'll, but made no effort to use them on him.
 Connolly was getting the worse of the encounter when he, got a chance into the darkness. and as he made his way towards Bridgeport he heard shots fired. He fears that Williams was shot and killed by the men.
 Connoly's story led Sergeant Suck ley to dispatch to the scene Sergeant
 
 and Dooley. They had some diffi- cufty in locating the scene of the supposed murder, but finally located the barn, and found it was owned by Frank Timko, a resident of the West End. Timko has man named Burger in charge of the place.
 There was no trace of anyone about the barn when the. police got there. Determined upon a complete investigation, Superintendent Birm- ingham and Captain Arnold set out for the scene this afternoon and ity of the barn for evidences of the dragging away of a body. But none was forthcoming. Though they can't account for Williams making away, badly beaten as he must have been without some sort of assistance, they are inclined to scout the murder theory.
 Connolly's wounds were dressed by pr. McQueeney in the emergency hos pital! His forehead was split by a. blow from club. The cut laid his skull bare for two inches His hips from clubbing and kicking. But he fears that Williams, left alone to cope with the two men, fared much worse than he. Dr. McQueeney stitched up the mans forehead and applied dressings to his other wounds then turned the man over to the care of the police. He remained at police headquarters during the morning seeking to aid in the search for his missing comrade. but at noon the po- lice decided his services were no longer needed and allowed him to % on his way. He limped out of police headquarters, stiff and sore, his head swathed in bandages
 Connolly says he knows nothing of Williams, save that he met him in Stamford where the two did little odd jobs picking up enough change to buy food and lodgings