Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-15
KEEPERS WERE MISSING
 FROM WATERFORD PASTURE.
Charles S. Shea on Trial, Charged
 With Takina Them.

The trial of Charles S Shea. of Wa terford occupied all the time of the criminal superior court in session here on Wednesday, and was not concluded when court adjourned at 40 o'clock Judge Burpee directed that the ad- journment should be to 9.30 this morn ing.
 MT. Shea is charged with stealing two heifers on August 1st, each valued at $75, from Albert Fowler and Charles R. Ogden of New London. This trial will be the last of this term of the court. The jurors who were not en- gagged in the trial of this case were paid off and excused.
 Shea is charged with taking and carrying away a Jersey heifer belong ing to Ogden and a Guernsey heifer belonging to Fowler. Fowler and Og- den allege that they put the heifers out to pasture in Waterford in June in a pasture owned by Ernest Lewis, and that later they were missing.
 The following is the jury in the case: Charles M. Staubley, Philip O. Yer rington, James E. Kennedy, Preston; Charles Latham. Herman w. Roberts, William A. Edmond, Griswold; Roger F'oote, W. Irving Mott, Lebanon; George C. Brown North Stonington; Thomas Fields. Bozrah; Curtis F. Haz- en, Sprague; Luther $. Tanner, Volun- town.
 MT. Ogden testified that he went to the pasture at eight different times, and he couldl find no trace of the ani- mals.
 AIr. Fowler testified that on Sept. 27 he went to the farm in Waterford leas- ed by the accused and told him that the two heifers were missing from the pacture. Shea invited him to look over his cattle. Shea had a herd of IS heifers, but he found none in the mum fw,,r heff CTS. He did not accuse Shea of having them or of having taken them.
 The attorneys for the accused are John C. Geary of New London and Judge A. I. Bush. In the prosecution the states attorney is assisted by Attorneys Warren Burrows and Clay ton B. Smith.
 Isaac Meran testified to buying two heifers from MT. Shea, for which he paid $50. He gave description Of the animals, which showed they were somewhat like those that MT. Fowler and MT ogden missed.
 That MT. Shea came to their place and took away two head of cattle that he claimed was the testimony of Owen c. Williams and his wife Martinello. William Dewey Gardner. boy, testl- fled to seeing MT. Shea at the Will Hams place and also to seeing the cat tie there and later seeing two heIferS at the poor farm, but they were not like those he had seen at the Will Hams place.
 Constable Fred M. Dimmock of Wa terford testified that he began to look for the missing cattle in October which was several days before MT. Shea was arrested He told of going to the Shea place with MT. Shelly to look for the cattle, but they were not there He also told of a conversation with Mir. Shea in which the latter asked if he thought the man who lost the cattle would take $50 for them.
 Gilbert N. Faulkner testified that the yellow and white heifer was such a fine large fat animal that 1t could not fail to attract attention. lie went with MT. Dimmock to look at the two heifers about two months and a han ago at the Shea place and he saw one big heifer, white and yellow that was marked somewhat similar but was not near so well kept and was good deal thinner than the one he saw at the Lewis place. About the small heifer he saw he could not say whether It was or was not the same as had been at MT. Lewis
 On cross examination by Attorney Geary, the witness amused the court and jury by saying that the big heifer had a neck on her like a bean pole and about half as long as the attorney table in the court room- The table is over 8 feet long.
 Harry Beckwith who had also had attention called to the animals at the Shea place sometime after the arrest of Mr. Shea, testified that the white and yellow heifer he saw at the Shea place had more whi,e in than the other white and yellow one he had seen.
 Cyrus. E. Shelley of Waterford, q fisherman testified to going with Mir. Dimmock to the Shea place where he heard MT. Shea say to MT. Dfmmock that he had traded two heifers with a man who came along the road and MT Shea did not know the name of the man. MT. Shelly also testified that the yellow and white one he saw then at the Shea place was not the same as had been at the Lewis place. He could not say about the other heifer. The witness has worked for MT. Shea.
 On cross examination the witness said neither of the heifers were the same as the one's he had seen at the Lewis place. He had seen the heifers only once One of the previous witnesses and testified that the big white and yellow heifer would probably weigh 800 pounds, but MT. Shelley did not believe she would weigh 500, live weight
 Witness Arrived After Adjournment.
 At this point in the case Major Huh said that the state had one more wit ness to present, Ernest Lewis, and would then rest, but that the witness was not here but was attending the state grange meeting in Hartford. He suggested that the attorney for the defense might possibly be willing to begin his case and allow this missing witness for the state to be brought in later
 Attorney Geary did not wish to do this, and the judge remarked that he