Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-10
TWO HELD AS
 PUTNAM'S FIREBUGS


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 alleging that they are responsible for setting eight different fires in the city the first fire alleged against them being one that occurred here on Oct 30, 1912, the last one that occurred April 25, 1913.
 List of Incendiary Fires.
 The list of the fires, as enumerated in the complaint, is as follows: Oct 30 1912, barn of Miss $. Elizabeth Clarke. Elm street; Nov 2, business block owned by R. H. Bradley, Main street; Nov. 3. business block of R. H. Bradley, Main street; Nov. business block, rear of Main street, owned by Edward Mullan; Nov. 13, business block. rear of Main street owned by Edward Mullan; Nov. 17. unoccupied house on Priests Island, owned by Rev. C. F. Bedard; Nov. 21, plant of the Wheaton Building and Lumber company; April '. paint shop at the Putnam fair grounds. owned by Rich ard German and M. R, Joy; April 25, U. B. Tatem handle factory. The other counts in the complaint are technical.
 Bail Fixed at S1o,oOo.
 Immediately after the young men were placed under arrest they were presented before Judge Holcomb and 
 rests were stated to the court by State Attorney Searls. The court fixed the bail at 0,0O0 in each case. after the court had ordered that the cases come up for trial at the October term of the superior court
 Attorney Howarth took his arrest with chilling coOIness. He was calm as the most disinterested person in the world never hinching or showing at any time the slightest trace of emotion over the exceedingly grave prediCa- ment into which he had been so uneX- pectedly plunged. Cain did not at first give vent to any crushing surprise that he may have experienced, but later the strain told on him. He said nothing in court, but Attorney How arth expressed wish that the cases might be tried at this term of court also declaring himself as satisfied with the amount of the bond fixed by the court.
 Howarth WhistIes, Cain WsePs.
 After the proceedings of the arrests and presentation. the two youthful prisoners were taken to the police sta ton here and held for a few hours that they might have an opportunity to get bail. They both tried this unsuc- cessfully. Locked in one of the cells in the main section of the police deten- ton room, Attorney Howarth hummed 8 catchy air and whistled merrily, while in a police cage in another part of the building Cain wept with despair. ap- parently broken hearted. Neither young man was able to get bail during the time allotted them to do so, and early in the afternoon were taken, each riding in a different automobile, How arth in charge of Capt. John Murray, who was with Officer Hurley when he placed Howarth under arrest, Cain in charge of Officer Hurley.
 Officers Claim Strong Case.
 The officers who have worked on the case day in and day out, week after week and month after month since the two young men first came under suspicion of being responsible for Putnams startling series of fires were very reticent Tuesday as to what final evidence they have secured to warrant the arrest of the two young men, but it is understood that the off cers claim to have an exceedingly strong case State Officer Hurley has hung S the trail of evidence with a tenacity that has been nothing less than amazing, and the same has been true of Captain Murray. Putnam peo- pie had practically, as general rule, dismissed the fires from mind and the controversy over whether Putnam had a firebug had died down. But the off cers went on collecting evidence and
 
 present to the state attorney was evil dently sufficiently convincing to war rant the arrests made.
 Prisoners Joke Together.
 Neither Howarth nor Cain made any statement Interviews with them were refused. Arrived at the jail and re- united for @ minute while their entry was being officially made they joked with each other, Cain recovering from a very depressed condition that had marked his attitude since shortly af- ter his arrest. Captain Murray said Tuesday after he had returned from the trip to the jail that not in 20 years of police duty had he ever as sisted in the arrest of any person whereby he was so much affected as when in the line of duty he was called upon to take Lindiey Cain into GUS tody, and this sympathy for the young man found widespread expression throughout the city.
 Hewarth Admitted Co Bar Last Year.
 Attorney HewaPth was born in this city March 30, 1890, and has always lived here. He is a son of Engineer Thomas HewaRth who was killed in an accident at Bolton about three years age. The young mans mother died during the spring af the present year. He is d graduate of Putnam High seh6sl iR the class ef 1908. Fol lowing his graduation he took up the study ef law ia the effiee ef d local attorney and was admitted te the bar and te practice law in Connecticut on January 16. 1018. At that time bril- liant career was predicted Fer hlmr for he had in the epiRieR 1af an able lawyer ef the city, enc of the bright- est ainds of any young man who has