Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-28

The grand jury of the United States district court in session at Providence has returned indictment against Louis Miller and David Shapiro. The in- dictment alleges that these two New York boys broke the seal of rail- road freight car on February 2, 1914, at Bradford, in the town of Westerly, the said car being engaged in inter- state traffic and being loaded with in terstate shipments: and that further. thet two boys committed larceny from the said shipments. They will not come to trial at this time, however, the first trial for the petit jury being set for June A. when the first case on the civil docket will be called. When the civil docket is finished the criIn- inal cases will be called in their or- der, the Miller and Shapiro cases be- ing the first on the list.
 The other five indictments returned by the grand jury includes that ident of Westerly. charged with the raising. and forgery of two money or ders in Providence.- Thomas F. O'Brien is indicted for embezzlement of $217.l6 from the East Providence post office. Albert T. Speedwell is indicted for stealing sheet copper from the Newport training station. Richard c. Stone Is charged with forging a money order.
 William Ledward, owner of ted-
 wards Island, in Little Narrasansett
 bay, near Stonington, Is to have a
 house erected on his lot in Granite
 near Summer street. MT. Ledward is
 the son of the late Charles Ledward
 and the son is to carry to completion
 the dwelling started by his father
 about thirty-five years age, The
 offset wall and granite steps erected,
 but that was all. All through that long
 period the large building lot has re-
 nained unimproved, and, of course,
 unpreduetiva but taxable.
 William Ledward was married less
 than two years ago and will have
 the house built for his own occupancy
 and on the foundatioH his father had
 erected when William was a small
 boy.
 The serious illness of Paul H. Hii- lard, adjutant of Budlone post, Grand Army of the Republic, has interfered with the preliminaries and general ob- servance of Memorial day, as for many years most of this work of ar ranSement has been done by MT. Hil- la1ds with the able assistance of John R. Brown, who is at present absent from Westerly. To MT. Hillard was assigned the matter of obituaries, a feature of the public exercises. He
 kept record Of the comrades who uled durlng the year, without regard to membership in the Grand Army of the Republic. prepared an obituary for each, which he read at the exer- cises. He was also the statistician oi the order locally and was of material aid in the general observance of Me l morial day. He prepared the official programme for the day, which in- cluded the names of deceased soldiers and sailors of the Civil war who's were buried in PaWcatuek and Westerly | This work now degolves on Christo- pher Simmons, commander of Bud I long post. assisted by Abel Babcoek
 commander of Hancock post.
 The order of exercises will be or practically the same lines as hereto 1 fore. In the morning potted plants will be placed on the graves by { committee Of Civil war veterans il conjunction with a committee repre-. senting Brucker camp, United Span ] ish War Veterans. Tn the afternoon there will be the parade. headed by l the Westerly band, the Grand ArmA men being escorted by the Fifth com l pany, Coast artillery corps, Rhode Is- | land National Guard, Brucker Camp ! United Spanish War Veterans, and tht l Westerly Boy Scouts The St Mich. aefs and River Bend cemeteries vii be visited with the usual ceremonials | The public Memorial day exercises vii l be held in the evening in the towr l hall and Rev. Mir Holyoke of Provi | dence will deliver the address