Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-02
RUNAWAY AT WESTERLY
Two Girls Thrown From Carriage When Train Frightens Horse-Both Cut and Bruised-M Missing Magneto Cause of Lawsuit Funeral of Mrs Daniel Sullivan

great convenience and a l, aving proposition to the town
 crly to have the six inch iron
 js used in the extension of the
 stem from Pleasant View,
 direct from the place of man.
 in Pennsylvania to Pleasant
 lout transfer The identical
 n which the pipe is first load
 ischarged where the work of
 tension is progressing This
 csz;5le by the improved troll
 lions in Westerly, the re-
 cf the old Pawcatuck Valley
 W atch Hill and the construc-
 h. Ashaway and Pleasant View
 .es Large cars are received
 hc New York. New Haven and
 I'd Railroad company on the
 track at the Westerly Quarry
 any plant, on the Ashaway
 ch and conveyed direct to destina- hese pipe-laden cars are thirty ,itt feet in length and have capacity 100000 pounds and they are run r the regular lines without inter ;s5i ing with the passenger schedule. In Ter to do this it is necessary to hold ,,, cars in Dixon square until the rwich-bound cars come from Watch iiill and to follow the Watch Hill md cars to the Pleasant View witch.
 Fourteen carloads of pipe have ar lived this week and the pipe is de- I;vered by distribution along the trench line. thus saving expense of carriage. The work of laying the pipe is pro- @ressing satisfactorily with a working force of forty men. This force will + Q increased on Monday and the work rushed to completion as rapidly as possible, in ample time for service at IVeekapaug at the opening of the sum- mer season.
 Before Judge Oliver H. Williams, Tn the Third district court at Westerly, Friday, there was a hearing on the case of Thomas Arnold against Charles H. Holdredge, an action in trover and conversion. It is an action to rcover and conversion. It is an action to recover the value of a magneto, $66. It was shown by testimony that an auto mobile owned by Arnold was over hauled and repaired in the Barber gar age and that when the work was fin ished the automobile was taken to the Holdredge plant to be painted and var nished. It was claimed that when the automobile was lowed to the Holdredgs shop that the magneto was in place, but that when the painting job was completed and the car ready for de- livery the magneto was missing. The plaintiff, or his witness, made no claim
 
 magneto. but inasmuch as it disap- peared or was stolen out of his pos- session, that he was personally re- sponsible for the loss and should recompense MT Arnold. Two witness es, MT. Barber and son, testified posi- lively that the magneto was in the car when delivered to MT Ho1dredge. The defendant testified that he never saw the ma8neto. or for that matter any other special part of the car. as his business was with the paint work and not the machinery If the mag neto was in the car when received for painting and was not there when the job was completed, it was plain that the magneto must have been stolen. Witnesses for the plaintiff intimated that the magneto had been stolen, but were fully satisfied that MT. Holdredge was not party to any such act.
 Attorney George R. McKenna, coun- sel for MT. Holdredge. claimed that if the magneto was really in the car when 1t was placed in the Holdredge shop, it had evidently been stolen and, if this were true, MT. Holdredge was