Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-09

i tendance, to guide the council through the intricacies of finance.
 l When the plans are whipped into
 shape for presentation to the general assembly they will be formally pre- i scented, and undoubtedly referred to
 the finance committee, of which Sen- ator Louis w. Arnold of Westerly is chairman. Public hearing will be given and Westerly people will appear before 1 the committee aand favor the plan with
 unanimity and the result will be favor ably reported by the fina1re committee. It is probable that the legislators will see the justice of the measure and the result twill be a joint state and town building in Westerly.
 At the annual meeting of the Board of Trade Wednesday. after explanation | by MT. Flynn it was voted that an effort be made to have the public building of Westerly granite
 Officers for the ensuing year were yer elected as follows: A1berti R. Still man, president; James M. Pendleton first vice president; Ira B. Crandall second vice president; Everett F. | .Whipple, secretary; Arthur |. Perry, treasurer, Albert c: Martin, James A. ] Welch Arthur M. Cottrell, John Champlin, Joseph T. Murphy, executive committee for three years. Samuel H. Davis was elected to the committee l for one year. to fill the vacancy caused | by the election of MT. Whipple sec | retary. Charles Perry declined re- election as president, cordially thank l ing the board for their support and courtesy during his two years in office A vote of thanks was given all the retiring officers.
 B. Frank Greenman received com aratuIations from many friends on l Wednesday, his Fist birthday, and welcomed some callers at his home in | George street. MT. Greenmans is a carpenter by occupation. For over forty years he was teacher in the | public schools of Westerly and has i been 8 resident since April 4 1873. He was born in the adjoining town of Charlestown. He was a teacher in | the old district country school system. | Among those who congratulated MT. Greenman on his birthday anniver- | sary were several of his old time pupils | who were nearly the same age of their 1 tutor
 | William H. Greene, also of Westerly, observed his 69th birthday Monday. l James o. Potter was taken by Con- stable Reardon Wednesday morning and placed in comfortable quarters in l the police station. He had been inn bibing freely and probably slept in ] the open the night before. He was bordering upon delirium tremens. Dr. | LGWlS WAS CalleQ IO EINe nm ueGQ6Q | medical attention. l Potter was not without money. had l 8 good watch in his possession and carried in his hip pocket a loaded re- | volver and spare cartradges. He de- clared he was tired of life, and the doctor was of the opinion that in his | impaired condition and on sudden inn pulse he might have done himself 1 bodily harm, or injured others upon the slightest provocation. HeNsaid it was ] well that Potter had been taken into | custody as he was not safe person in his possession.
 Potter said he was born and raised 1 in Kingston and had relatives in Paw
 catuck and Mystic. He became more
 rational Wednesday afternoon and l said his, home was in Providence
 where he had family. and was em
 pioyed by the railroad company as
 a car cleaner in the Charles street
 yard. He will probably be arraigned in the Third district court, charged with
 carrying concealed weapon
 Denis C. Murphy, alias Spike 1 Murphy, former resident of Norwich
 now serving d life sentence in the
 Rhode Island state prison, mailed a
 petition for pardon to Governor
 Pothler Tuesday. Murphy was con- 1 vlcted for participation in the murder 1 of Waternan Irons at Providence
 Murphy writes that he began to serve
 his life Imprisonment July 2. 1SS9 and
 that the verdict of the jury was based
 on purely circuinstantial evidence 1 which, by force of circumstances Mur-
 phy could not answer
 L. Malcolm $. Bryce of Attleboro.a rel ative of Murphy, called upon Governor
 Poth1er Wednesday in advocacy of pardon of Murphy, who. he says is ill
 with tuberculosis. MT. Bryce says that lnxv has
 ment and that if released he will leave the state and go to his former home
 Tn Norwich, where relatives are wait
 ing and willing to give him a home | MT. Bryce says that Murphy protests his innocence of the crime for which detectives perjured themselves in testi-
 mony concerning walk he is alleged
 to have taken to change his clothes
 after the crime was committed.
 Men were trawling in the Pawcatuok
 rIver during Wednesday, above the
 Broad street dam, searching for the posed to have fallen into the river
 Monday evening. The work was car Tied on without successful result an6
 therefore the opinion prevails that the
 body was carried over the dam anc l into the river below. At the present V
 amount of water above the dam anf
 the current is unusually strong, witf
 sufficient depth and force, it is be
 lieved, to have carried the body oyel
 the dam.
 It is not positively known that Don.
 ohue has been drowned, but a splash
 followed by cry was heard from the
 Connecticut side of the river in the . early evening and Donohue has no
 been seen since that time He i: about seventy years of age and wa.
 employed as a brick mason tender.
 Ebert L. CrandalI, employed in tn,
 George E. ChampIin livery stable il
 Canal street. died in his room in tn,
 stable building just before midnigh
 Tuesday. He had been ill for severa
 days and was attended by a. physician
 Tuesday afternoon who decided tha
 there was but little hope of recovery II Mir. Crandall was in his sgd year an,