Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-31
TRUANT ROSA CAPTURED.
Conductor Winfield CoIweIl Tempts Runaway Police Dog with Bones.


 You remember Rosa-the thorough bred police dog that escaped on No vember IS from Henri I. Baer's Pal isade kennels at East Killingly? We'll Rosa has finally been captured She met her Waterloo, or Warsaw, or Hart mannswellerkopf. near the plant of the Consumers Ice company, at East Killingly, Thursday forenoon. Con- duCtOr Winfield COlwell, who runs nights on the Rhode Island line be- tween DanielsOn and East Killinglv. and who was off duty at the time, made the capture and incidentally earned the reward of s25 offered by Mir. Baer for the return of Rosa. The dog, a valuable animal. was suffering from a cold and evidently not feeling as kippy as usual, facts | that were aids to Mir. Colwen in cap l turing the exceedingly shy animal. In 1 the weeks she has been at liberty, l catching her has been a problem as 1 hard as trying to capture a wild fox. 1 When MT. Colwell learned from members of a trolley crew that Rosa was near the ice houses he went t7 | a market, got some bones and started out on what was to prove a success full quest. Rosa was lying in the sun on the snOw-coVered trolley road em- bankment. The bones tempted her and by using great tact and patience and not trying to hurry the job to- fast, MT Colwell finally induced Rosa to accept a bone from his hand Then it was but a minutes work to slip a leash around her neck. Rosa refused to budge an inch with Mir ColweIl so he had to carry her to his home ir Elmville. MT. Baer called during the afternoon and took the record truant home.
 Excepting for the cold, Rosa seemed in quite satisfactory condition, not. , wlthstanding she has been living iT the woods for several weeks.
 Judge Greene Decides Brooklyn Case
 Judge Gardiner Greene Norwich, O.
 the superior court, filed Thursday hi. decision in the mandamus case brough
 at the Instance of the selectmen O I the town Of Brooklyn to require tn, treasurer of the town, George ". East
 ment. to comply with certain demands
 relative to the handling of fusds O
 the town, these being of a techniCa l nature, and in no way involving MT
 Eastment's integrity or ability, the is
 sue being simply whether the select
 men or the treasurer have the righ
 to say where the funds of the tow
 shall be deposited, as to which shal
 make loans for the town and as L
 where the towns sinking fund shall b
 kept.
 Both sides score points under Judg
 Greene's decision, which is yer . lengthy. The court ruled that tn
 treasurer has the right to choose tn
 depository for the towns funds; tha
 the selectmen can make loans and th treasurer must sign on the notes an
 that the sinking fund of the town Q = Brooklyn, now in the savings depart > ment of the Windham County Nationa
 bank, must be deposited in the Brook j. lyn Savings bank a state Institution
 where this fund was formerly depcs n ited.
 The issues raised have been ex } ceedingly Interesting, as they wer , unique and, one of the counsel en gagged in the case stated Thursday
 without exact parallel in all the case ). in which decisions have been rendere
 in American or English courts, eve I as far back as the days of Williar 8 the Conqueror, in the 11th century.
 Excerpts from Judge Greene's de ,. cision, as filed in the office of the cIer
 of the superior court at Putnam. ar l, given in the news from that town thi
 morning.