Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-18
IERLY HEARS DE SUICIDE
lii. Adel.ine Lee of Moscow Found for Memorial Day-Judsement for Defendant in Action of Mnsmg Masneto.

leased to MT. Champlin. the change to De In effect the first week in May The hotel is still under the management of Goionei Fletcher, who, through the Fletcher Land company, owns the building and the furniture. It was said that his retirement from the hotel business was pressure of other busi- ness interests.
 Colonel Fletcher is the owner of the Coronet Worsted company, the Allen town Woolen company and the Plain- neid Woolen company of Central Vil- lage.
 he resident officers Of Rhode Island National guard, in common with all others holding commissions in the mill ltary service of the state, are keenly Interested in the recent order which requires all officers tp undergo a phy- sical examination before military examining board. The officers will be examined in relation to their physical ntness for war service and any that are found to be deficient will be placed on the retired list.
 The board of examiners is composed of these medical officers: Major Henry A. Joneas Major Augustus w. Calder, Eaptato Marcus H. Marchant, Captain Her.1y W. Burnett and Captain Frank - Y Ceil iiCy
 Dwight Bromley of Chase avenue served in the Civil war in the Tenth Connecticut infantry from Sept. Is, lS61.. until Jnuly 1, 1885 nearly four years He was wounded just 50 years ago last Saturday by being shot in the left forearm by rebel bullet at the battle of Drury's Bluff. During his military career he did an tndiscreet act, just as did thousands of other ' boys, in blue. and boys in fact While on furiough, and before the forma!ity, [ of discharge, he enlisted in another command under an assumed name and suffered the penalty.~
 In consequence of this tndiscretion. that was common during the war, his name Is not on the pension roll, al- though he rendered meritorious service ana risked his. life for the union nor Is his name on the roll of the Grand Army of the Republic; which includes rlany whose real war service cannot be compared with that rendered by MT Bromley. His friends are endeayoring to have his military record cleared, after his many years of thought and regret of his youthful indiscretion, which was taken with no intent to deprive the government of his ser vice.
 The arrangements for observance of Memorial day in Westerly by BudIong post, Department of Rhode Island, and Hancok post, Department of Connecti- cut. C. A. R.. are not yet completed, but Will practically be the same as has prevailed on all previous observances ahe graves Of soldiers and sailors will De marked by flags and potted plant Will bo placed on each grave on the i morning of Memorial day, the work to be done by Spanish War Veterans, un- der the supervision of the committee of the Grand Army of the Republic
 In the afternoon the procession will be headed by the Westerly band and the Civil war veterans will be escort ed by the Fifth company. Coast ArtiI- lery corps, Rhode Island National guard, Brucker camp United Spanish \ War Veterans, and the Westerly Boy Scouts. There will be exercises in the town hall in the evening.
 In the dark days of 1861 John Shea ot paweatuck happened to be in the south and was pressed into the ser wee ot the confederacy. serving in the Tenth Tennessee regiment. He is buried in St. MichaePs cemetery and his grave is the only one of a confed- crate soldier in the twin villages. It is the only grave of Civil war veter- an that is neglected by the veterans of the war when placing flowers on groves Memorial day.
 After the passage of over a half cen- tury, patriotic speakers declare there is no north, no south, but one great union and even those who as boys opposed each other Dn the battlefields now as men beyond the meridian of life fra teruze. That sentiment does not seem To have reached this section, but the grTIve of John Shea will be strewn with Hawers. just the same, on Memorial day.
 Judge Oliver H. Williams of the Third district court has rendered judg ment in favor of Charles H. Holdredge in the action in trover and conversion case in which Thomas Arnold was the plaintiff. The action was brought in directly by J. Fred Barber, owner of a garage, and was to recover a mag neto. or its value, s65, from MT. Hol- dredge. The Arnold automobile was overhauled and put into condition by MT. Barber and. so he claimed, that when the machine was lowed to MT. 1toldredge's establishment for painting that the magneto was attached, but that when MT. Barber went for the machine after the painting the mag neto was missing, and he held MT. Hol- dTedge responsible. Although the ac- tion was for trover and conversion, Mir. Rarber when on the witness stand testified that he did not believe that Nr. Holdredge had converted the mag neto to his own use, but that it was stolen while in the possession of MT. Holdredge.
 The defendant testified that his bus mess with that particular automobile Was with the painting. and that no attention was paid to the machinery. He did not think the nlagneto was in the nnachinc when it came into his possession, for if it was it would have been there when the painting was com pleted. However, he had no knowledge of the nlagneto. It was intimated at the hearing that Mr. Barber was of the opinion that the magneto had been stolen by 9 party who had no connec-i ton with the Holdredge establishment but whose business called him there On several occasions while the Arnold automobile was in the paint shop. Mir Holdredge says he has been in busi- ness over 50 years and that he had never been . party to a lawsuit before
 Local Laecnics.
 George E Towne and family have moved to East Greenwich.
 D. 4. Smith Of WorcesteE nas leased the Central theatre in Paweatuc1l.