The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-29
BEDDING PEOPLE
 DON THINK HILL
 MEAN T TO MURDER
Credit His SeIf-Defense Plea and Hope He'I Regain
 Liberty

about everybody in towns could haveel had no more surprising news of him than the news that he had got him. self into trouble by killing a man in fight He has always ranked as 9 harmless, inoffensive person. some what given to disputatnon but with out any really quarrelsOme or vici- ous propensities beyond a. weakness for strong drink which inpelled him to indulge in occasional Net periodicals" 'sFsor this reason all are inclined to1 believe HiITs s claim that he did the killing in self defense and to hope that he wilIabes able torso convince the court and the jury should the case come toa jury trial. Follow ing his advent in Bedding about 70 years ago Hill was employed contin- uotlsly fer IS. years by Town Trea sllr- CT W. H Hill as a sort of farm fore man Mir Hills friendly disposition towards the man is shown by the fact that he went tos Danbury on Tuesday and engaged Judge Davis to defend hiln Subsequently it was leaIped that the prisoner had previously re- tainede Attorney Charles w. Murphy so that the defence will be in the hands of the latter. After leaving Treasurer Hills semploy--the two men , 15y the way are in nowise related as to shi1ns eIf-Joe has worked at various jobs around town. mostly as one of 4hs road repairing force About a 
 thrown from a wagon in Bethel and has since been incapacitated for work For the last three or foursI xears he has made his home with l Hannah Keeler at Pine Tree Corner Recording to his own statements he was never married and his only near ;s1r45i4ir z relative is a sister living in Worcester. Mass, whom he occasion sly visited.
 Hill possesses 9 distinct individual 3ty which makes him a character With his large. well prop ortioned build. strongly marked features and Eelssertive although courteous and dfg- fnified manner, he might, when dressed up and silent, pass for statesman of the sturdy New England type and a more formal period.
 Occasiona1Iy he has been called u.sen to preside at town meetings
 When the late John Hay resigned as Secretary of State, Hill expressed much yorriment lest he should mot have a worthy successor and gracious ly proclaimed his warm approval shens the choice fell upon Elihu Root. He was fond of telling about the ad- vcntures which had befallen him dur ing his travels in the southwest and other parts of the country and also about his adventures on the seas hav-| i1aEs been a sailor a good part of his lifRs It did not detract from the in te:Iest of these tales that his hearers ozEsu suspected that they were largely compounded of fiction. He also ssery- cd in the Civil War and Believed him self entitled to a pension which so far, however, he has failed to get sThis matter is in the hands aof Captain Quien of~Danbury, who tells w. H. Hill that he believes the claim well founded and likely to secure recognI- 41lon capt Quien also promised Il sat ne would now make d special eff fert oagetartla<Hz matter expedited. JeesszAziIas ia eDanburys this week was os-Isszpne of many he. had taken on. ! long pension quest. They usual 1y brought him some tribuladon but. 7sashng in the nature of Monday mornings tragedy
 The delay in the app ointment of 1sadding's deputy sheriff does not sig
 1sify any likelihood of change from t1se program as forecast in these col .1lnnns several weeks since. Indeed 5tsis rather more certain than it then was that the appointee will be former deputy George s. Banks. Chairman 1sa4nes of the Republican town com srts9tee expects to sec Sherif-elect I,Sase about the matter within few days and his unqualified endorsement of MT. Banks will be followed in due season by assenting action The only other candidate is Lew Warner, whose claims have not been very strongly pressed and whose chief ad-
 
 The Londons Liverpool and Globe Co. which had risks aggregating $3,- 500 on the property of George F. Williams recently destroyed by fire. refuse to make payment in full. bas- ing their action on the ground that Williams placed q second mort gs9 on his prepertY yzitfs his insuP- El1lee policies as part Of the security without notifying them. They have offered to compromise the claim by 3f1f n tea1s Roin fir10 tlsis proposition MT. Williams has placed the case in the hands of a Danbury lawyer and litigation is prob able. It is uiad derstood that the in susAnce company does not dispute the ssnenesty' of the fire nor maintain tlsI the amount of the less does not largely exceed the totalsof the insur- afEEe That MT. Williams should suffer from a mere fault of technical tty in addition to his other m1sfor- - tunes deepens the community na- 8pathy felt for him and impartss to il dash of resentment
 More booty than at first supposed was taken in the burglarious raid made in the week preceding Easter upon the summ meraresidence of Com n70dore Luttgen at Sunset Hill. The commodore on a visit to the house early in the week, found that the desk in his sleeping room had beer forced open. Nothing seemed to be missing, however, except a sma1 pearl handled revolver. He tole Dennis Ryan. the estate foreman o1 the circumstance and said he woul6 give s1e0 to find out<who the cu1prits were. Later in the week Mrs. Lsutt- ksen came from New York and made farther Inspection of the house which revealed the fact that besides the revolver the burglars had stoler one suit case filled with solid silver ware and. another packed with liner as it came from the laundry. The rIafef] ware had been handled anf