Putnam patriot., 1913-11-21
FOUR WAITING
 TO BE HANGED
Death Cells at WetiersfieId
 Fil,e1 With Doomed
NO HOPES OF RETRIEVE
One Was Convicted, Appealed to Su- preme Court. Found Guilty and Re senteheeo-Ore Confessed to
 Murder and is Sentenced.

preme court, round Guilty and Re
 senteneed-ore Confessed to
 Murder and is Sentenced.
 Special Hartford Correspondence
 Hartford. -Four people sentenced to be hanged are confined in the death house of the State prison at Wethers- field. The first of them goes to his death on February t, and the last March IS. According to Warden Ward A. Garner, they are quiet and make no outery, nor do any of them seem to harbor hopes of sudden reprieve or pardon. They receive DO visitors. nor communicate with the world out side the prison walls. One was con yieted, appealed to the supreme court, obtained a new trial and was again found guilty and sentenced. Another has just appealed to the supreme court The case of a third will be considered by the board of pardons when it meets in December. The fourth, who confessed 10 the murder. for which he was sentenced, has made no appeal as yet.
 Joseph Bereeron Appeals.
 Joseph Bergeron, alias Josef H. Berger, of New Britain. came from New Haven. He is sentenced to be hanged on February for the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Dowsett iE New Haven last June. Notice of an appeal to the supreme court was filed in the superior court of New Haven county.
 James Plew, self-confessed slayer of William Wakefield, of Bristol, on June 22, 1913, sentenced to be hanged on March {. has remained stolid since his confession. and heard his sentence without emotion and has shown no sign of giving away to emotion.
 Mrs. Wakefeld's Case. Mrs. Bessie Wakefield, of Bristol, was sentenced to be hanged on March for participation in the murder of her husband by plew. Although her name does not appear in the list of appeals to the board of pardons is- sued Tuesday. an agitation favoring the woman is spreading in some parts Of the State.
 Joseph Buonomo, of Bridgeport, sen- fenced to be hanged on March IS for the murder of Jennie Cavaglieri, q Chicago girl. in Stratford, on October 22, 1912, has had two trials in the superior court and verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree was each time returned by the jury It is said that never before in the history of the prison have there been so many pris- oners awaiting execution.
 Lives in Woods.
 When reprimanded by hey mother, Mrs. w. T. Arnold, of Rowayton, for not attending school, Miss Marion Ar mold, IA, ran out of the house, saying she would do as Dorothy Arnold did. and disappeared. Her aunt. Mrs. Will liam Locke, and party of searchers found her in the woods, half frozen and nearly starved. She had eaten only nuts and an apple or two during her three days of wild life. At night she slept under what leaves she could scrape up, clad only in her linen school dress. The child did not want to return home and resisted so vigor- ously that policeman had to act. She says she wants to he an actress and wants no more schooling.
 Pays Board in Jail.
 The town of Enfield has kept Peter Jaseska in the jail at Hartford since last May. In order to do this if has paid weekly the board bill of Jaseska. in hopes some time of a settlement of the claim. The town became inter ested in the case through complaint of Victoria Pieteas for support of a child of which she claimed Jaseska was the father. Now he has agreed to a set tlement in which he pays to the girl S250, and she in return is to send the chile to her parents in Poland, so as 1t will not become a town charge. No marriage was agreed to in the settle ment.
 Gas Kills Five Men.
 Five men were found dead in a small bedroom in Pacific street tene- ment at Stamford, having been as. phyxiated by Illuminating gas during the night. One of the five retired early in the morning while the others were asleep, and the medical exam lner thinks that he accidentally turned on the gas. The dead are: Stephen Arcade, aged 50; his brother, Peter, aged AS; his son, Peter, aged 26. and two cousins, Joseph Oceanic. aged 22. and D. Editano, aged 20.
 Trolley Company Gets Hearing.
 The public utilities commission granted the Connecticut company q hearing for a modification of the ec~1- missions orders for the discontinu- anoe of the use of single truck one cars and the equipment of all fir yht cars with air-brakes.
 Recovers from Poison.
 Thomas Trainor, the man who, ac- cording 10 his statement. took twenty. eight grains of bichloride of mercury. will be able to leave the Hartford Hospital within a few days, accord ing to the physicians in attendance. Dr. Garland, one of the internes, said that his recovery was due to the fact that the stomach was cleaned out before the poison could be absorbed ipto the system. There was some doubt as 10 whether the poison was really taken, but the physicians ere satisfied that the man swallowed the