The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-02

plicated George Goetchious, the New
 York resident who owns the property.
 Smith says that he was hired by
 Goetchius to set fire to the place, with
 the understanding that he would be
 bailed out and could then make his
 escape. When Smith was arrested
 bonds were fixed at $5,00o and were not furnished.
 Five thousand dollars damage was incurred at a fire in East Norwalk, which department officials pronounc- ed as incendiary Saturday morning. The fire occurred insthe old fire house adjoining the Randall block. The waist factory of Samuel Marcus was gutteds an apartment upstairs was damaged considerably. the walls and roof of the Randall block were some what damaged and Ferguson & Hed@ man. J. w. Ross. the Hassan Brothers fruit store and the home of Mrs. Della.
 Saunders were considerably damaged by water.
 Valued At ss,oo0.
 As the result of 8 law suit yvs of the theft of a diamond solitaire ring
 set in platinuna, from the home of Tho1f1as M. Hodgens of Greenwich, Hodgens began the action His wife. Mrs. Inez Hodgens, was the owner of 1.-the ring The theft took place 1t is said, on the night Of May 1 0, 1912. in the Hodgens home MT and Mrs Hodgens took out a burglary insur- ance policy in January,191 and, al- though notified of the theft of the ring, if has failed to pay the loss. The ring disappeared during a party. giv- en by Mrs. Eodgens At in the morn ] ing her husband noticed the ring on I her finger. At that time there were only two guests in the house They were two of Mrs Fl odgens most inti-i mate fri ends. When Hodgens awpke, at a- ra-. the ring was missing Recovering From Blindness
 l Miss Grace BirdsaII. Of Danbury. I who was strick en totally blind at her | nome a short time ago.. is resting as kcop1forta6ly as could be expeeted. Miss BirdsaH was in the dining room of her l home. at the lime the unfortunate iH- ness attacked her, and was going to the kitchen to prepare supper Just as she entered the Kitchen she asked I her sister who was also at home, why the lamp had not been lighted Her sister was unable at first to under stand the meaning of the question as l the light was then burning second I later Miss Birdsa11 walked into the I stove and it was not until then that l she realized that she had been strick- 1 en totally blind. The attack Of blind l ness came without moment warn I ling Specialists diagnosed it as q bad. lsb1ood cIot. Miss BirdsaH has respond ed nicely to treatment thus far and Ithere Is every home that she wifi com Ipletely recover her eyeight-
 l Very Peculiar Poisoning
 Doreas Ward. the three-year-old anaan died in the Stanford hospital l w ednesday, from the effects Of some l mysterious poison, and her brother l arry, aged six, is now at the point of death. The two children were talk ! Fen III about a week ago. being seized u1orbus. Stamford doctor found I the children sufferiIg with some viruu- Ilent poison though he was at a loss to ] know what it was, and the parents couldn't even hazard guess The 1 two little tots have not been to school l and they have not eaten anything in l the form of candy that might have lcontained ,poisonous substance. The lsboy admitted that he and his sister i drank some water from a nearby pond. l lbut this is not believed to have caused 1 their illness As the sickness became acute the children were removed to 1 the Stanf ord hospital. An autopsy was held on the body of the girl with 1 the hope of learning something that I might help save the boy $ fife but the I result only showed that the chf1dss in- l testines had been eaten away by 3 I poison the nature of which cannot be asce rtained until chemical analysis I is made.
 Attempts Suicide.
 Using a jackaSnife with blade kabout five inches long Robert E. Bar ry, of Danbury. made an ineffectual T attempt to end his life at his home ! Friday evening by stabbfng himself in lthe abd omen: None of the wounds is ! lconsid idered as serious. A sudden at il ltack Of Insanity as said to have been slffhe cause He is report edzas being in si a .very vioien state and it was neces- ssar-y to confine him in a straight iS5acket. ss.
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