Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-23
Blacksmith in Employ of American Thread Company
 Believed to be Dying at Hospital
MICHAEL CONNORS ARRESTED FOR THE CRIME
Latter Was Displaced About Two Years Ago by the Man He
 Shot-Had Not Worked Since and Had Brooded Over His Loss of Employment Entered at the Back of the Ear-Deposition of Dying Man Taken at Hospital

| was his striker. At the time ConpOrg got through with the con1pGnT Mrphy was given his place and has been ill., Ing it acceptably since.
 Connors' Reputation Good. Connors has always borne a fine reputation and comes of O good old South Windham family. It is said hs had accumulated quite a little money previous to his getting through at ths Thread company. but as he has not done any work to speak of for the past two years, 1t is believed that he has gone through most of 1t and that this might have had something to 5o with prompting him to commit she crime for which he Is being held.
 Bullet Was a .Ss calibre. As soon as John T. Murphy arrived at the hospital, about 6.15 o'clock Drs. | O'Nein Parker and GirOuard prepared him for the operating table. He was conscious at the time and knew the surgeons.
 The bullet, which was a .3s calibra. | soft-nosed one, fired from a brand new | Hopkins 6 Allen revolver, penetrated l the base of the skull behind the right | ear and tore its way upward and a ! fragment passed out through the from | it.
 Little Chance of Recovery. The surgeons took out six other fragments of the bullet and the exam | ination disclosed it to be as bad a case of a bullet wound as has ever been seen by the operating surgeon. All 1 the surgeons said that Mnrphy did not have. one chance in a thousand 70 recover.
 Dr. O'Neill said the explosive power of the bullet must have been terrific The brain oozed out through the in- cision and the cavity was unusually ] large where the bullet tore It's path through the brain.
 Fired at Close Range.
 A powder mark behind the ear indi- cated the close range at which the shot was fired.
 The patient came out of the ether In good slSape and regained consciousness and recognized the doctor. Prosecuting Attorney E. Prank Bugbee. Medical Examiner Dr. L. I. Mason and A. M. Potvin. who is a brother Knight of Columbus.
 It was deemed advisable to take Murphy's dying deposition when it was found that the chances for his living throughout the night were very slim.
 Murphy Makes Deposition.
 At 1O.S0 o'clock Prosecuting Attorney Bugbee asked MT. Murphy four ques- tions, and the following is his state- ment:
 May 22, 1912.-I, John Murphy, of the town of Windham. realizing that my end is approaching and that am about to die, .n oath do say that Michael Connors is the man who shot me to- night at the time the people were coming from the o'clock trolley car near Hollis Lyman's shop. He never spoke to me before shooting. nor mo to him. He reported around town that trimmed him out of his job.
 His
 JOHN (X) MURPHY.
 Mark
 Witnessed by
 OWEN O'NEILL,
 LOUIS IRVING MASON.
 A. M POTVIN.
 Duly sworn. signed and attested be- fore me,
 E, FRANK BUGBEE.
 Justice of the Peace Prosecuting Attorney Bugbeo nod- fled Coroner A. l. Bill of Danielson ai LILO o'clock of the fact of the shoot ing and what he had done in the mat- ter. The coroner will come here to be present at tho autopsy.
 The charge against ConnorE is a@- sault with intent to murder.