Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19
Bade Farewell
 to His Fiancee
HoWARTH MAKES A BRIEF VISIT
 TO PUTNAM
A FEARLESS PARTING
Met at Home of Prisoner-FIoWarth
 Regards His Plight as Mighty Tough"-Looks Worn and Haggarde
Especial to The Bulletin.l


 Putnam, Nov. 1S.-Attorney Frank E. HoWarth, who on Monday in the supe- rior court at WilIimantic was sentence ed to serve @ long term in the state prison, made on Tuesday what was probably his Last visit to Putnam for years. He was brought here by Sher- if P. B, SibIey and Deputy Sheriff John H. Titts of Hampton, that he might make a final visit to his office and to his home in connection with the securing of some papers and the dis position of some of his effects.
 Howarth Worn and Haagard.
 Worn and haggard after the nerve racking strain that the trial has placed upon him, Attorney TIoWarth was, ney- ertheless, cool and determined, but had come into a full realization of the fate that has befallen him. To those who have known him and have been friend ly With him and who saw him during the brief time that he was in town on Tuesday afternoon, there was also a more complete sensing of the really tragic ending of what promised to be 9 brilliant career, and expressions of synpathy-not that he should not pay a penalty for the crimes to which he had pleaded guilty, that the ends of justice might be served-but because of the bIghting of the future of 8 young man who gave every promise of making an honorable and enviabIe mark in the world Whatever the young man has done to merit the just sentence in- possed upon him, seemed not to Tepress in any great degree the sympathy felt for him by those who saw him ride out of the city to face years Of inaprison- ment and all of the solitude that inn plies.
 Mighty Tough" Says Howarth.
 Speaking of his last visit here, How arth said to a friend:
 This is mighty tough! It's hard to come here today to look on the old ia niIiar scenes and to know that l have got to go away"
 In this statement there was the near est trace of emotion that the prisoner has given vent to, but no whimpering. Continuing, Howarth said that he set the Priest Island and fair ground fires, but that he did most strenuousIy object to pleading guilty to the Mullin fire. It was suggested to him that, alter all, he had done the wisest thing, and he agreed with this, indicating his con- viction that the jury might have been more harsh with him had the case gone through to an end.
 FI would like to have told my side of the story, though was the one wish expressed by Howarth.
 Farewell Kiss for His Fiancee.
 While he was in this city Howarth saw his fiancee, Miss Gladys Sheldon of Woodstock, and it was in Howarth's home, where his mother died a few months ago and where his fathers body rested after his death in a rail- road accident at Bolton, that they said farewell to each other, There were no tears from either at parting, just a kiss and g. "Good-bye" Mrs. Sheldon also said farewell to Howarth at this time, and the young man turned stOHdly away, entered the automobile that was to convey him back to jail, and was driven away.
 Cain Still in Brooklyn Jail.
 When Howarth will be taken to the state prison has not been decided by Sheriff Sibley. The latter wrote Tues day to the warden at WEethersdeld to ascertain how soon there is to be vacancy there. It is Sheriff Sib1ey's wish to have Howarth committed to inc state institution at the earliest possible moment.
 Sheriff SibIey said Tuesday after noon that he did not know when he would take Lindley H. Cain to the state institution at Cheshire, but would do so as soon as he could make the ar engagements Cain will be the second young man to be committed to the in stitution since it was opened, a few months ago.
 General Relief in Putnam.
 There is general relief in the city that the arson eases are closed. These cases have been the sole topic of con- versation almost for the last three weeks.