Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-24

day morning by Chtef of Pollce 6roWn
 charged with theft. He was under the influence of liquor and will not be arTalgned until this CThursday) morn ing. Although the police have known of other thefts committed by Barber,
 he was arrested for entering the res- idence of Mrs. Elizabeth Ingham with the aid of skeleton key and stealing a pocket flashlight. About eight months ago he stole from the same
 house a kit of turning tools and other
 articles. Subsequently he was detected
 in the act of stealing tools in the plan ing department of the R. A. Sherman's Sons company. He said he regretted his acts, promised to reform, and no formal complaint was made to the po-
 lice at the time.
 It's a chilly day in July when the summer residents of Watch Hill. some of them, cannot dig up a grievance for presentation to the Westerly town
 council or some member thereof. Now there is 8 protest against the occasion al toot of warning of the trolley cars and the demand has been made that
 warning whistle within the hearing of
 the select of Watch Hill. It is in timated that if orders are not given by the operating company an appeal will be taken to the town council Just what authority that body has in the
 
 whistle is blown only when the car l is approaching a dangerous curve and 1 is sounded as a precautiOn to safety. There is no indiscriminate footing of the whistle just to hear it toot.
 l It would be just as consistent for
 the town council to order silence of | automobile horns. many of which emit louder and more disagreeable sounds than do the regulation warn ing whistles of the trolley cars. At the last meeting of the town council, a property owner at the hall ques-
 to remove an obstruction in the pub 1 lie highway without permission of the | aforesaid summer resident.
 1 Charles Albert Berry, Jr., while
 reaching for his miniature saiiboat, fell into the artificial lake in Wilcox park, Wednesday afternoon and was | drowned. With his brother Harold,
 and another playmate the boy was sailing his little boat by pushing it
 from the edge of the lake and heading 1 it for the opposite side. The boat drift
 ed down to the lower end of the lake
 where the water Is seven feet deep,
 known as the deep hole and intended
 for the fish to locate when the lake is
 frozen over. In all the rest of the lake 1 the water is shallow. not over fifteen 1 inches in depth. As a protection for 1 chat end Of the lake there is a thick 1 hedge placed there to prevent such a fatality as occurred Wednesday.
 1 The Berry boy forced his way l through this shrubbery and reached for the boat; he lost his balance and 1 fell into the deep water. Two men 1 seated near the farther end of the l lake saw the boy in the water and sup
 posed he was bathing in the lake in violation of rules. Just then Frank Dewey happened along and was told | that boy had fallen overheard, but the child could not be seen. MT Dewey l hailed Harry Elionsky. of New London. the long distance swimmer. who was I near the comfort station in the park. : Elfonsky ran at top speed to the end l of the lake whipped off his shoes and
 made a dive in the muddy water in | search of the boy He was under wa 1 ter nearly 2 minute and came to the l surface. He immediately went to the bottom again and recovered the boy. By this time Dr. Scanlon had arrived l and he summoned Dr. May. Both doc- 1 tors and Elionsky worked for half an l hour in the hope of resuseitating the
 child, but failed. as he was probably l dead when recovered by Elionsky. He had been in the water about four min- utes.
 The father of the boy was notified and arrived at the lake soon after the body was recovered. As medical ex-
 aminer, Dr. Scan1on pronounced death due to accidental drowning and au- 1 thorized the removal of the body.