The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-02
Fairfield County News
Tbree Horses Burned.

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 Three Horses Burned.
 Three horses were burned to death. al small barn owned by Martin Spa.hT, two baker wagons, one sleigh two sets 6f harness and a quantityof hay and Eorwalk Tuesday morning. The cause 3f the fire is unknown. Jacob Rsif. 9 baker. owneds the horses, wagons zsssfzns harnesses and the hay and straw.
 $S50 Per Day.
 At d session of the Norwa1k Master Painters and Decorators held Sstur-1 day afternoon new scale of wages was approved, to take effect April T. The new scale is $s.5o a day of eight hours The painters and decorators win xorlk forty-four hours week
 Admits His Guilt.
 4-boynas Lee, . .sof 65fsenwich. who was arrested onsa. charge of forgery. admitted his guilt Monday. Accord ing to his story, hes broke into the twenty five-eent store of Charles Kahn. at Port Chester, where he was formerly employed nd took 2 blank check and q revolver The cheek, dated March 21. for SEQ, was made -out to Frank Mofollo, and signed Charles Kahn. He spent it for nov fnx-picture shows. candy. etc It is. said that other cheeks have been forged by Lee fS
 Looking For Legacies.
 It has been rurnorsd during the past few days that the Misses Anna and Hattie Kcker, daughters of Benjaniiu x Ae2zer. of Greenwich, had received word from an attorney that Peter Aclsr. step-urrc1e, who died at his home n Rideeheld several weeks ago had left each of them $z6s s0o0 but such Is not the case. T1eIr fffhfr ho o{t@.Ne4. may receive a petition of his ha1fsHxbther7M estate F Peter Aksslker- rnades VIII leaving all of his estate. to Hiz ifs ard at the same lime MS. 6 @sta.4S Ho naz7 huzsb 8 nd and his heirs. xzrs Acker died about three weeks after her husba11d Mr. Ackefss heirs 7z1l receive the estate which. As n ear " as can be ascsrtadned.f consists of property worth about s50,00o sirnated Y r,sa- New York city MT Acker had a half brother. 8 half sister. and two. brothera The Greenwich benehciar1es are B K Acker, Misses Sarah and Emma Mead Miss Adele Mead and Frederick W. Lyon
 Bankrupt in Darie1l-
 Aianson. v. Rfi1lzpaugh Of Darie1a has flled a petition in bankruptcy and he z1lzsfeaoath that he did not have ss0s stos- pay the aafng fee. His liabilities are listed at s2.T96-e3, and all Bit $8,3 which stands as priority, being tax claim. is unsecured. Assets that cred- itors can make claim tp9 are list ed at $447-
 Over $500 Paid.
 with all but two casss as the re ssift of the recent raids in Dan bury bv the stats police settled up. there rsrhAins now the question of tosalirag. t1p} the amount of money paid by the different defendants Thirteen men and women have paid fines and costs amounting to SB75.z7- There still re- main che costs in one case to be set tled and if the two remaining cases are sett1ed by the payment of fines and costs the total amount will reach ap~ proxirnate1y $1,o00. Of this am untl .&Son.<has beaa paid in fines and the. remainder in costs The fines and s.nzFz raifl in each were as folio vzs-. George Goetz and Karl Faust $144- -94 : sarafira Chiaravel1o. $s9.97; yincenzo Me1filo s6gs7; Vincenzo Ateando,s 4S6esazTA severao. Bonadios $19s97s Mrs Joseph unsann. ss 4.s7s Michele ScaI- 70 s70.57; Salvatore rrninaro, S7os47: Tony I,eveglia- sss.e7, Peter Christiano, s1s.s7; John stavois, de- fauaed bond, s1o0s Maria Delueca- S25 total. $825-77 An appeal being taken in the cases of axnes W Por- ter Glenn B. Squires and John An tone. the detsrmination of these cases will be made in the hltsher court
 Damaged By Fire.
 several hundred dollars q shaage was done to the costly automobile owned by Frederick H. Qaintard of NprvEa1k when it was partially destroyed by fire d few days ago The car had been oTernauled nd Rut in 1Est el ass con difion. s3<hs esr was taken cha rs of by cf&uf1eur After going some 7 distance Athe q cha HfKerr smelled smoke and fouf7d tzla at one Of tn e 70 rlz m n in the eaaaee had left a 5umper on the muffler. rhe result was th at the lower part of the machine caugqt fire;
 Confession of Arson
 Arthur Smith. who was arrested charged with setting fire to the Cro- fut homestead in Norwa1k, has com 4fessed In his confession he has i'm