The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
BEDDING

| ' Bedding, Aug. S.-A trio of Bethel l ties who have been persistently an-
 moving Artist E.. w Deming and Law 1 yer W. T. Mulligan. summer residents i with places on the shore of Waramaug
 Lake, were brought to brook last Sat
 urday night. The three, along with
 several others. were in the habit of
 going upon the lake in a boat at night and using profane and boisterous lam
 guage to degree which seriously dis l turbed the repose of the Deming and Mulligan families. Sometimes they indulged in even more offensive be-
 havior. To get to their boat they crossed the land of the aggrieved par l ties and persisted in doing so although the land is posted and they were in addition verbally warned to keep iaWay. The first plan was to arrest 1 them for trespass, but when Grand Juror Duncan looked up the law on | the subject he found that unless they l entered on the land in connection with a violation of the fish and game laws,
 or damaged growing crops in their passage or wilfully left open gates or bars they were not criminal1y liable. Hence decision to apprehend them for breach of the peace while they were in the act.
 l In pursuance of this plan the grand juror, accompanied by Constables I 1Warner and Downs, went to the scene 1 Saturday evening and established a watch in MT. Deming's Indian tepee Ion a high bend near which the ma~ rauders' boat. which had got adrift l was lying. Presently there appeared | a man of massive proportions dressed I in khaki and wearing a belt from which hung holster enclosing a big automatic revolver. The visitor was I not | s'hostile,' but Artist Deming, who | hot ho I, r1o 1 self on war footing for the occasion, I the revolver being his customary com panion in his walks abroad for use in shooting Wpodchucks. The vigil of the | watchers heightened wearily and still | the invaders did not appear. Mean l while the party listened to the plain l tive voices of the night and discussed | the RosentE1aI removal, the probable number of votes Teddy would get in Bedding, what would come of the lat
 est roads committee, Indian legends l associated with the lake and other topics Finally one of the constables went to the depot on a accommodating trip and on his return reported that I three of the hostiles were not going on the lake because they could not find l their boat He further reported that two of them carried guns. As the off, cers also had guns they saw no reason l why they should be scared and at MT. l DqIncan's suggestion returned to the ldepot and arrested the trio on war lrants furnished them by the grand juror.
 l resistance, were taken, just before | midnight to the Mulligan residence Il where MT. Mulligan, who is also a | lawyer, gave them a thorough, pro- fessiona1 questioning. They gave the l names of Mead. Hopkins and Arvine and owned up to all the accusations t | 1cI1f oc n a 1S0 promised not to offend again if alr I lowed to go. The fearful statement of | one of them that he had wife and II child melted Mrs. Mulligan to sympa- thy and she offered to withdraw her complaint. The grand Juror consent ed, but the liberation of the prisoners could not at once be effected because two of them had been handcuffed to- I getTer and the handcuff keys were
 missing. The problem was solved by
 filing the handcuffs apart: Then Mrs Mulligan caused lunch to be set out for the repentant offenders and after l wards had her team take them to their Il homes in Bethel.
 Il The. recent sale of Elizabeth Sey- mour's west side property to her sis ter. Mrs. Catherine Seymour was at
 tended with complications which at | first seemed likely to lead to a law Eeuit although such an issue is not now Aprobable The trouble arose through
 Bthe owner placing the property in the hands. of two agents, Harry Louns-
 bury and Mrs. J. w. Stimson. Al
 about the same time the former sold to a Mrs Ives for $3.000 and Mrs Stimson to Mrs. Seymour for S2,4oO : MT. Lounsbury thereupon cabIed to
 the owner in Europe as to which offer she wished to accept and her reply
 was to close with the Mrs. Ives offer
 Subsequently it appeared, however
 that Mrs. stimson has received 8
 power of attorney from the owner au-
 thorizing her to sell and convey the
 property and also that before leaving for Europe Elizabeth Seymour had ac- 5 cepted $50 from her sister to bind the , bargain On Monday papers were ex- ecuted by Mrs Stimson conveying the
 property to Catherine Seymour. Mrs 5 Ives, who is a daughter of Rev. Jo- fl seph Twitchell of Hartford, is now ne rl gotiating for another piece of prop } erty in the Umpawaug section.
 ai The military forces who are to ar 5 rive on Sunday will be stationed .al
 hreezencalnpm pmenfs. one on D. S 6 stisLza- San