Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-05

| aIltE store Tn NeW Lonuon Cil IilS hle eitt ! of Dec. 13. 1913. on account of which Pumerantz is on triad in the superior 1 court on the charge of arson.
 l State Policeman Downing was the next to the last Of the fourteen wit 1 nesses which the state put on the [ stand during the day. His testimony was that he had gone to look at the l premises by direction of the chief of l the state police and that hs went ! there on the Monday after the fire, 1 which occurred half an hour after ] midnight on Saturday. The witness 1 said that he had had experience in 1 vestigating about 100 fires.
 1 He found that the fire in the Pun1- 1 erdntz store at New London in the l Shea building had been confined prac- ! examined the back part of the cellar 1 where the boiler was located and said 1 there was no evidence at all that { the fire had started there.
 1 He asked MT. Punlerantz where the l fire started and the reply was that it l was from the boiler. but the state po- l licemau testified that all that he saw l indicated that the fire had started | near the air shaft that was in the 1 center Of the store.
 Goods That He Counted. 1 MT. Downing also told of going to 1 look at some goods which had come ] out of the fire and were stored in ! EaI4OLIfSL lJlAtG. EAnlDuS lUC 9TItClGS 1 that he counted there were coats, 1 232 rolls of woolen goods, 1S4 vests, 1 l22 2-3 dozen of underwear. ons fur l coat, 127 pairs of overalls, I29 shirts, 1 160 sweaters, 58 suspenoers, 2790 col i lars, 127 neckties, 962 hats. 22 suit ] cases and 956 pairs of stockings, Was Tailor for Punerantz. ] The last witness of the afternoon l was William Dipps. of Hope street, I New London. who said he was born l in Russia and had come to this coun- 1 try in 1904, and who testified that he 1 had been working for Mir Puuerantz 1 two years as tailor at the time of | the fire in the Shea building, and 1 was at work on the day of the fire. l The witness was asked by the states | attorney what Punlerautz had ever. ] said to the witness about the pllner- 1 antz business. Pumerantz said oIsi- l ness vas very slow I'll do any 1 thing
 Thrown Out of Store.
 l to Plum erantz at the Green street l store after the fire to collect some | money due Lipps. Mrs Lipps was l with him and she asked Nathan Pum- l erantz to pay 8 or 8 per week. 1 Nathan laughed at them, the witness
 said, and called Benny Pumerantz wh9 1 threw him out of the store.
 1 The states attorney asked the wit 1 ness if he had been threatened if he 1 should testify in this suit, but the at 1 torneys for the accused objected and ] the question was withdrawn
 1 Iipps remembered a newspaper .ac- 1 count of fire in Norwich in the 1 Manhattan, which Nathan Pumerantz 1 read about and remarked, Sometimes i people make money on a fire" This ] was before the Pumerantz fire. 1 The witness was also asked about 'oelnS treasurer Of 8 Hebrew society. ] He said that i-e and Nathan Puuer- l aTltz exchanged checks involving the i society's money until the bank stopped | this practice just q few days before ! creditors came around asking Mfr. 1 Pumerantz for their money.
 On cross examination by Attorney 1 Geary the witness said that he often
 helped Mir. Pun1erantz out with money 1 Ill his business and it was always paid 1 back. At the time when PI1nerantZ | said business was very poor and "T'II 1 do anything Pumerantz was pavins, 1 his workmen all right, but couldn't i pay his creditors. The witness said he 1 had given Pun1erantz checks at diff
 ierent times for varying amounts from 1 $45 to s75.
 Laughing in Court Was Checked.
 MT. Lipps apparently had consid- 1 erabie difficulty in understanding the ] English language and also in express 1 ing himself in it. When some ,,f 1 those in the court room grinned and 1 laughed at his erirbarrassuenf tbe ! states attorney raised a protest and l there was short verbal passage of . arms between the opposing counsel as I to who was doing the laughing or 1 grInning. Judge Greene threw oil on 1 the troubled waters and directed the 1 court officers to see that the audji1Ie l signs of amusement were not rcpeated ! by anyone in court
 Photograph Not Admitted. When the court came in Thursday morning George E. Pitcher. civil en- gineer. was recalled to eyDIai- Q ,bo, tograph Of the interior of the store taken in the August after the fire. The testimony was ruled out, after consid eraole discussion, because it did mol show the part Of the store floor that was daTn&ged. He was allowed to tes tify about the floor beams being char
 Fred II. Gavitt, owner Of the Hotel Royal in New London. said his place adjoin6 the burned store and he -ot 10 the fire about as soon as the first f1re company did. It was 1920. He could not locate the exact place of the fire but saw plenty of smoke. Worked at the Fire. Clarence ". Thompson. cbanffe,,r 1 for A. O. Buzzeu Of East Lyme, the next witness, told of going to the fire 1 in an automobile and Of getting there almost as soon as the apparatus. Inn nedlately upon his arrival he started to work on the~ fire. The witness said that he was unable to eet through the front part of the store because Of the thick smoke ard he went to the rear from where I.e was directed to go back to the front ans take charge of a. line of hose there, He said that he was aolised to get on his stomach in order to throw a stream Of water into a. hatchway. T?ie witness testified that the fire seemed to be about 30 feet from the door way.
 Earl 2T Rose, a member of the Thomas Hose Co, said he had charge of a hose in the rear Of the store and that he was unable to get into the cellar more than ten feet be cause Of the dense smvlle I.atry when the floor fell in he got in about 30 feet. He said that the alarm WAS pulled in about 1925.
 Attorney Geary objected to shA testimony regarding the time Of pull ing in the alarm on the grctna7 that 1t was not always right and that if was often three or four minutes out of the way.
 Chief Stanners was pIlf on the stand to @deny that the fire alarm whistle STI Ny=V.-