The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-29
Fairfield County News
Horse Thief canght.

tity of harness and other matter from the stables of J. H. White.
 | Automobfle Didn't Stop. | An automobile containing three or four people hit horse and wagon driven by Leo Ellis on the North sStann- ford road, Friday night; broke the wagon and threw MT. Ellis out. The horse ran away. The< occupants of the car did not stop, and, in the dark ness, the number of the machine was not obtained. MT. Ellis was not in- EJured.
 Gets Away with Loot.
 After the stranger who called at the wich, had left Thursday noon, Mrs. WoolIard discovered that he had taken 1.-two gold bracelets, gold chain, gold pin and $58 in money. The man evil to bottom Mrs. WooIlard was down stairs during the forenoon and it is Believed that he ente1ed the front door, which was open.
 1 Untouched Deposits. 1 Four hundred and ten deposits, ag- Igregating @1O. .333. 8s, which have been untouched for the past twenty ears, l are reported by three savings banks of Norwalk. which ares the NorwaIk Savings Society, Fairfield County Saw 1ngs bank and South Norwa1k Savings I bank The deposits vary in amount from one cent, of which there are sew I eral, to $1, ,2S9S which amount is on deposit in the Fairfield County Saw Fings bank to the credit of Birdsey c. I Clover Various reasons are assigned for unclaimed anodnts. sudden I death of persons having no dependents I Is responsible for the larger amounts I being left. while in the case of the smaller amounts, 1t IS often found tltar 1t represents interests on = deposits which. were drawn without a baIanc- ! ing of account books.
 l Mrs. Knappss Estate. I The estate of Rachael Ann Knapp, 1 who left real and personal property appraised at $S9, ,916e0, s1las been set tied in the Greenwich probate court. Mrs Knapp died on Nov. S2S, 1912 Her 1 will was executed IS years prior to I her death. Certain nephews and nieces were cut off One appealed from the probate of the will. The case was pending for some months, and was then withdrawn by the applicant, ] GeoEge Merwin Mead It is said that I he received some compensation from j the other benehciaries, but there is nothing in the administration account to show this The account shows that there was a consfderableA loss to the estate during settlement, owing to shr1uixage of market values, but the T income more than offset such losses, I and showed an actual gain of $5, S03. .52 I after the paying of the expenses and I the state inherftance tax. Because the estate went to collateral heirs, the 1 state tax was 8 per cent. of the net estate, $S93- The following Iega- cies have been paid: Mary H. Mills, $4s 900; Janet S. Reynolds $5,OO0; Mary I L. Brush, 2.S0OO; Ebert M. Reynolds, $5s 900; Annie l.. Brush, S1 900; A1exan- der A. Brush. 5000; Frank " R I Reynolds, $1,000; Roy Trowbridge Rey- holds, $500; Norman T. Reynolds, $1 900; Ebert Reynolds, as surviving I heir Of Leonard A Reynolds de- ceased, $500 Aal of the real estate, ,va1ued at $4,5O0, goes to the residuary I Ilegatees, Charles A, Frank ". R., and Norman T. Reynolds, who also share in the resfduary personal estate amounting to about $4aOOo.
 Pheasants Matching.
 The setting of pheasant eggs which the state fish and game commission l placed recently with a, number of sl Danbury lovers of game birds, have begun matching. The methods pre- t scrilbed for the care of the birds are new, and the fish and game commits T sion believes that under this system the birds can be raised without great trouble.
 Auto Thieves.
 Auto thieves visited the NorwaIk Country club on Saturday evening I and pIueked two big extra shoes from l the automobile of James Wood and an extra wheel fitted with shoe and inner tube from the car of Raymond Betts.
 il woman Was Starving.
 Having gone for three days without .l Stamford, Monday. She said she and her husband %lcame to this country about three months ago Her hus- band had been unable to find work, she said, and a few days ago they < were evicted from their rooms She an ainiess manner when she col lapsed.
 will Of James NcCutcheon.
 The will of James AlcCutcheon. who died at the Stamford hospital follow I ing an operation for appendicitis. July 20. was filed in the Greenwich pro- ,. bate court Saturday. The widow, Frances N. McCutcheon. is bequeathed $40,Oo0 in trust, the income to. be ap< sl piled with the income from other sources of her own, to make up 5000 per annuEn during her life. The. re- nainder is to be paid to Mir. McCut- cheons two daughters. Theodpra. Nye AdcCutcheon and Alice Booth McCut- cheon. Upon the death of the widow.
 the net income of the principal sum is to be divided equally among the daughters. The remainder of the es- tate is to be held in trust by the ex-
 ecutors, to divide into four parts. of
 which two daughters will each have
 the income of 95 per cent. The in come Of Ia per cent: goes to the widow of his deceased son. or until such I time as she may T4marry. The in come of the other 15 per cent. is to go to the granddaughter, Elizabeth
 McCutcheon, daughter of his deceased son. The executors and trustees are to have in trust the entire estate e1x- cept the household effects, horses and automobiles. which are willed out right to the two daughters. No be-
 quest was made outside of the fam fly
 1 FOR LACK OF A GUmLoTNE.