The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-08
EDDY AT SCHOOL; PARENTS OF PUPILS
 ARE INDIGNANT
Youthful ''BIack Handler" Out on Bonds Resumes Studies
 at High School
School Committee May be Forced to Act as Other Peoples Children Object to Confessed Criminal as School Associate
Especial to The Farmer.l

| WGSIpOGI, Jan. S-EaIGllLS or the pu-
 pils of westport High school are ex-
 pressing with emphasis their indignA- tton at the leniency of the faculty to-
 wards Walter Eddy, 1e-year-old stu
 dent, who has returned to school af- ter having been held in bail of $500
 for appearance at the February term of the criminal Superior court of Fair
 GeId county, for writing black hand
 letters and obtaining money unlaw-
 fully.
 Eddy is .. bright, forward chap, and
 until the scandal of the black hand letters broke over him, he stood well
 in the community. But parents whose children are forced to associate with that he should be allowed to mingie with them following the startling dis
 closures of Walters arrest
 The, capture of the young desperado was due to- the prompt and thorough
 co-operation of the Rev. J. J. Duggan,
 pastor of the Catholic church here,
 with Prosecutor Sherwood and the State police.
 Walters career of crime might be progressing still were it not for the determined stand of Fether Duggan | following the receipt of a black hand letter demanding $20, with the alterfla- tive of the blowing up of the church, rectory and the sIaying of the priest | So fas as has been learned. Walter | lle
 Adams. whose wife paid s1Oo tatiler
 than chance the outcome of a refusal.
 But there were many others who re-
 ceived the letters and whether there are some besides the AdaIng' who paid the forfeit rather than report the mat ter to the authorities is a matter of
 considerable conjecture about the Walters capture was effected by Fa- ther Duggap and the State pohce-
 The clergyman turned his threatAning letter over to the prosecuting authori-
 ties. The State police were summon
 ed, and at the time appointed for de- livery of the $20. Father Duggan. fol-
 lowing directions. placed a marked
 bin upon the designated spot. corner
 of fence where were chalked ir large
 letters the initials B. IT. s. (Black Hand Society,"
 On the way to the place he was to
 leave the money he met aweu spoken
 lad whom he greefed pleasantly and who responded good nntured 2. Re- turning from the scene he noted thai the youth had disappeared. Subse- quently the lad reappeared, having | gone a roundabout way to the spot from which the priest had just re- turned. As he snatched off the little
 bag containing the tribute, State Fo- l.licemen, Jackson and Wheeler appre-
 hended him, threatening to shoot If
 he did not halt,
 I He was taken at once to the pE1est's s house, and there he was searched A 1 pistol, a black hand letter addressed | to F. IT. Salmon, the marked money placed on the fence by the priest and
 other incriminating evidence was
 found
 The lad was taken before Justice
 Purdy, held in bail of $500 for the Su- perior court. and made a complete confession
 Among Che recipients of the letters
 were number of the best known res
 idents of the town, including the wid- oyv of Senator Lloyd Nash, William 1 T s dvva a h. several
 others. Shortly after the Adams had delivered the $100 bill to the nyster- ious B. H. s., another letter demand ing $20 more was received at his house.
 of the family servant received 1t,
 and turned it over to the priest, to whom she hurried at once when the l nature of the letter. became apparent
 to her. The Adams after their ex- perience left here for Colorado.
 Eddy'S father is a. trolley conductor.
 He says his son turned over the $100 bill, to him, saying he found it. The father had a brother change the Dill in Stamford The authorities ques- toned the father at length as to why he didn't cash the bill in town. Ills excuse was that he didn't want to
 ances by having so large sum in
 his possession.
 Following his being held for the Su-
 perior court, the young prisoner was
 Rev. MT. Boynton, pastor of the Meth odist church, and A. J. Southey, real estate dealer. tN Agitation over the boys continu-
 ance in the High school has taken an
 acute form today, and there was talk this afternoon of concerted action to- wards forcing the school authorities to do something that will obviate the gNng with the youthful black handler.