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The Alaska daily empire., 1913-03-04
CHARGED WITH ARSON

SEATTLE, March "A warrant has been issued for the arrest fDr. A. H. Holcomb, a dentist of this city, on a charge of having attempted to burn the residence of his divorced wife.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-03-04
JUDGE oVERFIELO
 LEAVING TONIGHT

Judge Peter D. Overfeld will take passage on the Northwestern tonight for Valdez to resume court at that place
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-03-04

SEATTLE, March 4.-Dr Holcomb was arrested in British Columbia and will be brought back for trial.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
BIG STORES NOT
 TO OPEN UNTIL
 8.3O MORNINGS

Beginning Friday, January 2, five of the large stores of the city, D. M. Read Co.,, the Howland Dry Goods Co.,, Smith Murray & Co.,, Meigs & Co.,, and the Laborde-Ge1man Co.,, will not open their stores until S:3O a.. m.
 Heretofore the custom has been to open at s o'clock. Under the new arrangement the employees of these department stores come in for a short CT work day and the change is in line with the policy of these stores which aims to better the working conditions of their employees.
 It is needless to add that the news will be most welcome to the large force of workers constantly employed by these enterprising merchants.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
Taken To Hospital Where
 Bullet Is Extracted
Further Rioting Today Between StriI- ing Weavers And Special Agents Protecting Strike Breakers== Sew
 eral Arrests Made

shop, except a few loom fi7zers, have now been entirely unionized. She claims that every remaining emp1oye, has agreed to quit work, and that Monday more than 300 employees will be participating in the strike, and that there will be within the factory only hundred strike breakers and the special age1is of the Obrien Ageu- cy, which was formerly operated by the strike breaker, Boss Farley now deceased. There was no union among the employees before the strike began
 Miss Rabfnowitz says that the trolz- ble grew out of the attempt of th6 company to install an efficiency system. A very fast man was taken as a pace. maker, she says, and an attempt was made to speed the other operatives ur. to his skill The result, she claims. was that wages dropped so that the weavers could. not. earn a living She claims that the pay which could be. earned was not more than @7 or s per week.
 County Sheriff William VoIlmer hag some 60 deputies and special deputies on the job. The deputies are a fine looking body of men, but the specials evidently have been assembled with difficulty and are a motley assem- blaze.
 The trials of the men arrested yes- terday continued before Judge John B. Dillon in the town court. The de- fense was reinforced by Attorney DE. Fitzgerald of New Haven and Attor ney Ernest Berger of Bridgeport, P. E, O'suIIivan of PF~by c0Vssiv siiii e asa chief counsel. e.
 John Rochinskf was found guilty Ot throwing stones at saTi auto in wl1icz. the police were removing prisoners yesterday. He was sentenced to 20 days in jail and took an appeal. Bond was fixed at $500.
 Steve Kupek was sentenced to ten days in jail, being found guilty of breach of the peace.
 He appealed and his bond was fixed at $1O0. It was feared that Kupek had attempted to stab Special Deputy Veccione of Bridgeport, but it ap- peared that the latter cut his hand while taking a table knife from the accused. The accused was fleeing, when arrested, and the knife was ex- posed in his hand, so that the charge of carrying. concealed weapons did not lie.
 Andrew Markovirs, who had been, roughly handled was sentenced to 90 adys in jail on a breacn of the peace charge but sentence was suspended because of the dubious nature of the evidence. It was claimed he threw a 0 stone at Chief Robbins of the local force and that the stone hit Deputy Sheriff Donovan.
 The trial was enlivened by frequent sharp disputes between Attorney F'itz- gerald and Attorney Joseph Shapiro, regular prosecutor for the Shelton court.
 The trials are continued through the noon hour and the workers of tho town come in to hear the evidence during the dinner period.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
MISSING FRED BENNETT ; WHOM DYING MOTHER
 SEEKS, NOT LOCATED

The letter of John B. O'Neill of Walthan, Mass, requesting that Fred Bennett of Bridgeport be lo- cated here for his dying mother, has disclosed a remarkable coincidence in which Frederick A. Bennett, secretary of the Bridgeport Manufacturers as- soeiation figures. The letter says the Waltham Bennett's real Christian name is Albert J., and as told in The Farmer yesterday, after leaving Wal tham he went nto Newtown, Ct, later to Sandy Hook, Ct, and finally to Bridgeport where he is supposed to have engaged in the automobile busi- ness.
 Now Mir. Bennett, secretary of the Manufacturers association, lived for number of years in BosSton. He left the Hub and went to tNewtown where he was employed as a telegra pher> for the New York, New Haven & Hart ford Railroad. Later, still in railroad employ in the same capacity, he was tion. Then he came to Bridgeport After his graduation he was appointed to the position he now holds.
 MT. Bennett says he knows nothing about the man whom the mother dying in WaItham, wants to find. MT Bennett's parents died and were both buried in Boston some years ago. Walthan is about six miles from Bos- ton and is famous for a watch manu- factured there. The secretary of the Manufacturers association said today he had never even heard of the man whom the WaItharn people are en- deavoring to locate.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
Unable To Secure Funds Needed To Carry Out Governmental Con- tracts === Move Is Made
 Necessary
Government Tug To Take Away Sub= marine G=3===Capt. Lake Still Has Hopes That Plant May Be
 Saved To Bridgeport

marines, contracts for which are held by his company.
 Under the pre- ent arrangement all Ghat was required 70 continue the work was $40, GOO. Att ough $18O, 900, as for merly announced, was needed, about $60, 900 had been pledged and it had been hoped to stimulate the interest of local capitalists to secure the bal ance. The financial condition of the company had been made public and the Board of Trade had appointed a committee to look into the affairs and suggest ways and means of securing the necessary working capital.
 It is said that the committee had re- ported favorably upon the project. Many circulars were sent broadcast and. copies of the committees repo rt- Funds, however, were not forthcoming and upon the arrival of the govern ment officials yesterday it was mu- tua1ly arranged that the government should complete the ''Turbot'' (G-31. She will leave here tomorrow.
 Should available finances be receiv- ed reorganization completed to the satisfaction of the federal author submarines will yet remain in the be transferred to other bidders. The amount involved in their construction is $1, ,655, ,0O0.
 There are today about 160 men in the employ of the Lake company. Be- tween eight and ten of these men will go to New York. The others will have to seek employment here. At one tim @ the Lake Plant had employed as many as 240
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
PAY WIFE; APPEAL OR NO APPEAL; IS
 WILDER'S ORDER

Judgment that an appeal in nom support convictions does not act as stay of payment during appeal vas decided by Judge Frank L. Wilder in city court, today, when William S. Davies was arraigned. He was orisf- aaIly arraigned December IS before Judge Thomas c. Coughlin and order cd to pay $6 a week towards the sup port of his wife and 19-mouths-old child. An appeal was taken under bonds of $500 by Attorney Robert H. Gould.
 A complaint was made that Davies was sot paying the required sum and he was Fe-arrested last night. This time he was ordered to pay the SC a week and with bonds increased 10 $500. Attorney Gould gave notice of another appeal. It was indicated that in order to escape a stay in jail while the appeals are being decided, an additional bond will be required, mak- ing $500 in all.
 Davies said he had provided a hOma for his wife on Rowan avenue, Fair field, and referred to the first home provided near Fairfield beach as a shack" Miss Grace Burk, sister Of Mrs. Davies testified in her behalf and Mrs Addict. Davies. testified in favor of her son. Davies is living at 54 Lea avenue, and Mrs. Davies at 1O27 Ham, cock avenue.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30

With the blowing of the o'clock whistle tonight the Lake Torpedo Boat plant in this city will shut it's doors, and may possibly never again open Tomorrow morning a, yellow funnelled white bodied government tug will chug slowly up the harbor and without oth- CT formality than throwing a hawser aboard the wha1e-Eke hull of the sub marine 'tG-3'' and increasing the rev olution of her propeller will pass out ward through the breakwater New York-bound.
 About eight men out of the 16O now employed, will take train for the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the last dream that Bridgeport may have en- joyed of seeing Jules 5Verne's full complement of dreams come true here will be waited away.
 The closing of the plant came as a direct result of the visit to this tity yesterday of two government officials, who after a long consultation with Si- rived at an agreement whereby, com made at the Brooklyn Navy Yard un- der the direction of the United States government, assisted by MT. Lake in an advisory capacity. Several other experts employed here will be utilized by the government. Other foremen and mechanics will not be. needed, as the government employs it's own corps Of expert snipbuilders at Brooklyn,
 In speaking of the situation today Simon Lake spoke with regret yet hope that the concern which bears his, name might be perpetuated in Bridge port, to complete the other three sub-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
(By> Our Staff Correspondent.)

(By> Our Staff Correspondent.)
 Shelton, Dec. 30-Mary Smarsh, a widow, 3S years old, the soul support of four young children, was shot in the side today, by a bullet supposed to have come from a pistol in the hands of special agent of the Sidney Blunenthal Company She was re- moved to the Griffin Memorial Hos pital, where the bullet was extra acted, it having traversed six inches through the woman's lest side, causing a, ser ious but not necessarily fatal wound.
 The injury was received while the woman was doing picket duty for the strikers. When the special agents came through early this morning escorting strike breakers on the way to the factory, they jostled the as- sembled strikers. and presently pistol shots were heard and stones began to fill the air.
 The fusilade of stones and shots lasted for some minutes, it being as- serted that the shots were all fired by special agents and that the stones were the weapons used by the strikers. It was during this disturbance that Mrs Smarsh fell wounded and bleed ing:
 The disturbance occurred on Wharf street, which is near the canal, ah1 adjacent to the BlumenthaI factory.
 Patrolnan Ernest Nettleton of the Shelton force pursued one man into an alleyway near the cement house. A woman in the second story of the block threw hot ashes on his head. without Causing him serious injury. Other women threw pepper.
 A special agent whose name is concealed is said to have been badly beaten, and is reported to be one of four who have been beaten now with in the BIumenthaI plant.
 Eight arrests were made, the rested men being Joseph Lenart, Mi chael Horvik, Joseph Bokosky, Wrac- hex Sochon, Peter Sochon, Severy Wan, John, Gonshon and Mary Rowe, a woman, who is charged with pepper throwing.
 The wounds of four men were dressed by Dr. E. J. Finn. They were injured by the flying stones. Dr. F. I. Nettleton attended Mrs. Smarsh at the hospital where the bullet was ex- tracted by pr. F. A. Elmos.
 A woman whose name has not been learned sustained a wound on the right cheek, which she believed was inflicted by a bulIeta but which is probably an abrasion caused by fly ing stone.
 One of the features of the strike is activity of women in it's conduct. The women strikers have been far more aggressive than the men in re- senting the brutality of the special agents A dozen cases in which women have attempted to throw pep per into the faces of the agents have been reported:
 The strike is in charge of a woman, Miss Matilda Rabin owitz formerly of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who is an organizer for the I. w. w.
 [ Miss Rabinowitz said today that the employees of the Sidney Blumenthal
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
.BEBALDI SHOT BELIEVING HE
 SAW BURGLAR Coroner Phelan Inquires Into Strange Death of
 John Carrieri SIXTY-NINE NO. 6
 SHOT IN WOUND Doctors Believe Deadly Charge Was Fired at
 Very Close Range
Ry a staff correspondent.)

Wilton, Conn, Dec. 3O.-With the arrival of Coroner John J. Phelan of Bridgeport, who came here this morn ing with corps of assistants to pros ecute inquiry into the strange death of John Carrieri in the House of Mys- tery'' late Sr4day night. the utmost activity is -eing shown by police off cials and others in an effort to find a motive for the shooting.
 It is today believed that the victim was shot from close range through an open window as he descended a stair case with a lighted ramp in his hand. It has been learned that both the dead man and the man accused of the shooting were seeking lease on the same property.
 Ganener Phelan. who opened the hearing at the town hall at 10 o'clock, was assisted by Miss Hammond of South Norwalk, as Stenographer-
 Augustin Beba1di, Lhe man held for homicide, was present and though he professed his willingness to testify as to the facts, he was not permitted to do SO by the coroner until he should be fully projected by advice of coun- seI It is expected that he will se- cure a lawyer late this afternoon.
 Ebenezer Gilbert, who lives directly opposite the scene of the shooting on Belden Hill, was the first to testify He said that he bad been awakened about 7:45 in the evening by Bebaldi, who excitedly told him he had shot a man. Peering out into the darkness he had seen Carrier1 leaning against an apple tree. Hef was conscious, but could not talk. Blood was streaming from a gaping wound in his side. A mattress was procured and all went back to the scene. Pools of blood were in the Kitchen and along the road The man had walked about 150 feet. Witness telephoned to Dr. H. C. Hutchinson, acting medical examiner for Dr. Fitzgerald Of Bridgeport
 Dr. Hutchinson testified that he had received the telephone. call at s o'clock and had hastened to the scene The wounded man had, died at 10 mond & Sons undertaking parlors at South NorwaIk An autopsy. revealed a wound 3 inches in diameter at the point of entrance and inches at the point of exit. Sixty-nine No. shot had been picked from the wound In his opinion the shot had been fired within 8 or feet of the victim.
 George Gilbert, son of Ebenezer. testified that he had seen the owner of the property, Salberno Vecchione, the deceased and Bebaldi in conver- sation on the property recently. Both men desired to secure a lease, to be effective from Jan. 19.
 In a statement to a reporter for The Farmer today Beba1di corrobor- ates his statements made to the Nor walk authorities yesterday, averring that, believing burglars were in the house, he fired at the light at some distance in the yard.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
JUMP FROM FRYING PAN INTO FIRE, IS
 PLANT OF SAVERS

Putnam, Conn.,, Dee. 3o-Many of the small depositors in the Putnam Savings Bank which was closed yes terdav by the state bank commission ers it was learned today, were those who had their savings in the Wind ham County Savings Bank at Dan ieIson and which were tied up there when in August of last year the bank commissioners ordered that institution to close it's doors.
 The ~Windham bank remained closed until last October and, when it open ed, the depositors were permitted to withdraw only a small percentage of their accounts. During the period of somewhat more than a year, how ever, in which the Danie1son institu- tion was closed, many of those who had been depositing their savings there previously took them over to Putnam and opened accounts at the Putnam Savings Bank
 They are now in the position of find ing their savings there temporarily. tied up.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
DEMANDS UPON THE TAX PAYERS
 GROW LARGER

Salary increase and other expenses will cause the requisition of the Board of Charities to be raised $7,000 to a total of s110,00O. At a meeting yes terday afternoon the board allowed Q $50 salary increase to the emergency $50 to Clerk Thomas F. Cox, and $100 each to Supt. Merle c. Cowles and Chauffeur A. E. Burlison.
 The Board of Apportionment will receive from Sealer of Weights and Measures a, request for S1,500 with which to purchase an automobile.
 The Police Commissioners want $50, 900 to build Third Precinct station in the West End.
 The scales sea1er asks for $4, 4OG, in clpding his salary and the auto The police department asks for $237, ,932. .25, in addition to the $5000O for the new station, $6, 460 for telephone switch board, etc, about headquarters and $2 800 for another patrol wagon.
 Director of Public Works Courtade asks for S159, ,716.17. This sum includes $45, 900 for street sprinkling with oil and water; $6O,o0O for macadam re- pairs and s1O,000 for common roads. The harbor committee wants $500 for dredging in front of the city dock at the foot of Wall street.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
MRS. SCOFTELD IN TEARS
 AS HEIR WHITE CHILDREN
 ARE TAKEN FROM HFR
Woman Admits Maternity of Two Col Ored Youngsters Who Are With Their Father-TeIIs Story
 of Her Plight

Admitting that she was the mother of two colored children, Mrs. Ann Sco- field. a white woman, begged Judge Hallcn in the probate court this morn ing to be allowed to retain two white band, Gilbert L. Scofield The chi1- dren were brought into court on petition from the charities department asking their commitment to the coun- ty home on the ground that their mother is not a fit person to have their custody.
 The children, Lillian, aged 10, and Helen, aged 7, two little flaxen haired girls, sat in the court room wonder ing what the proceedings were all about. Investigator Alexander Mor- rissey of the charities department had gone to the home in Chester stree1 this morning and brought them with their mother to court
 The mother. the girls, and two lit- tie colored children much younger. have been living in a shack near the railroad track just north of Dewey street The father of the white chi1-s dren is living at Wilton, Ct, at present working on a farm. He was in court today. He said he was unable to pro- vide for his family because of the conduct of his wife with a coIored man named smith.
 Mrs. Scodeld was also in court. She said her husband was shiftless, was unable or would not provide for her or his children. She said he had re- peatedly deserted her and his c1aiI- dren and that on the times when he left her destitute, she had taken ID with the negro, Smith. She said when her husband returned to her she left the negro and went to live with Sco- field only to be deserted again and again. She admitted the negro, was the father of the two coIored children whom she claimed hers.
 T love all my children alike" she declared to Judge Ha1len.
 Smith has taken the younger c11iI- dren away and is caring for them and have not seen him or had any thing to do with him in three months. I wish you would give me a chance to start over again Judge. I will take my Rabies and move away from the West End"
 'I think you have set a very bad example to your children" said Judge Ha1len, "and have no assurance that you will keep your promise do not think your children should be allow ed to live with you and grow up to realization of what you have done You seem to lack the moral responsi- bility which mother should have to properly rear children and there is nc, other course left me but to order their committa1 to the county home.''
 ScofeId seemed well satisfied with the decision of Judge Hal1en but the mother wept as she left the court room. Husband and wife took differ ent routes. Mrs. Scofield took a troll ley car for the West End while Sco- field boarded a train for South. Nor walk.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
SO1llerS Held
 For Death Of Helen M. Judd
Coroner Mix Finds Bridge port Painter to Be Grimm ally Responsible Review of Finding.

New Haven. Dec. s3O--John L. Soms CTS, a painter, of Bridgeport, is held by Coroner Eli Mix, in -.4s finding made public today, crimina11y respon- sible for the death Of Mrs. Helen M. Jul, also of Bridgeport. Mrs. Judd died December 21 as the result of in juries received when the automobile in which she was passenger and which was driven by Soners was in collision with a trolley car at Alling- town early on the morning of the 21st.
 A copy of the finding has besen sent Orange and Somers' re-arrest4 on the formal charge of manslaughter will follow. The case will be called on Friday.
 In his finding, the coroner says that Mrs. Judd left her home in Bridge port with another woman for trip in Somers' machine. They first went to an inn in Milford where they had ginger ale highbal1s.''
 They came to this city and at cafe had two cocktails The party then started to return to Bridgeport. in Campbell avenue, West Haven. Som CTS drove his machine upon the troll ley tracks where it was struck by a trolley car and completely wrecked.
 
 rate of speed estimated at between 2j and 25 miles an hour. Somerss had stopped on the tracks. The h1otcr- man sounded his gong as a warning. Son1ers could not readily start the Ina- chine to get out of the way althoug h it had a seIf-starter for the motor and the trolley car hit it. The motorman, in his testimony, claimed that Somers was running parallel with the tracks when the gong was sounded and that SoIners turned the machine upon the tracks ahead of the car.
 The coroner sums up the finding in these words:
 1T find that John L. Somers in 6riv- ing upon said tracks drove upon them in a careless, reckless and negligent manner; that he could have realized it was extremely dangerous for him to do so, and that in so doing he is crirninaIly responsible for the deeth ot Helen M. Judd
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
JAMES IT. KERSHAW IS CRITICALLY I'LL
Former Police Commissioner Not Ex-
 pected to Survive Shock

Former Police Commissioner James H. Kershaw Is critically i'll at his home, 1855 Park avenue. His death is momentarily expected Three weeks ago he was stricken dumb following a. stroke of apoplexy Since then he has passed at frequent intervals into a semi-coma tose condition. During his lucid moments he is able to make his wants known by writing on a pad of paper. This is the second shock Mr. Kersha;w has sustained in three years. He is now under the constant atten- ton of a physician.
 Mr Kershaw was for many years foreman in the Read Carpet Go. He belongs to many fraterna1 orders and members Of these organizations have turned his sick room into a verftab1e floral bower by the rememhrances which they have sent him.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
WOMAN AND HER BABE
 CRUSHED BY CEILING

New York, Dec. 30-While sleeping in the front room oH her home, at No. 53O Wythe avenue, Williamsburg, to- day, the plaster on the ceiling, to- gether with several pieces of the raf- ters. fell upon Mrs Rebecca Sack and her three-months-oid daughter The crash was heard by other persons in the house, who broke upon the door and found both mother and child un- conscious and Buried beneath the de- bris.
 Both were taken to the Williams burg hospital, where each was found to be suffering from concuEs1on of the brain.