New Britain herald., 1915-10-14
1&0H1x V IXXS IN~VVO SIMPSON TO RESIGN
 ASSESSORS PLACE
E. A. Freeman May Accept Ap-
 pOintment to the Board
NON-RESIDENTS GET LISTS
Former SeIectman's Health Causes Him to Quit-Colleagues Are After
 Freeman-Donahue Claims License Was Lost in Wrcck-Other Matters.

Freeman Claims License Was Lost in Wrcck-Other Matters. cent illness as rapidly as he had expected has caused William J. Simp- son to prepare his resignation as
 member of the board of assessors and
 at the meeting of the selectmen to-
 rommow night it is likely that an appointment will be made to fill tho expected vacancy. MT. Simpson was elected with the other republican can didates at the recent town meeting. While on a trip to Ohio some time ago the assessor suffered from an at tack of pneumonia and while he has recovered, he has not gained sufficient strength to warrant attempting the
 duties which attend membership on the board.
 Assessors F. T. Wheeler and L. B. Tucker had conference with MT.
 Simpson yesterday and at the time he expressed his intention of giving
 up his place on the board owing to his physical condition.
 Although he declined to accept @ renomination for the assessorship, 1t was said today that there is a pos sibility that Edward A. Freeman wilt agree to serve in MT. Simpsons place. In that event the selectmen will no doubt select him. MT. Freeman Is recognized as an expert on property
 values in Plainville and he has always | been regarded as an exceptionally | capable assessors. He would be n
 valuable addition to the board.
 The assessors will hold but three
 evening sessions this year and on
 this arrangement MT. Wheeler and
 MT. Tucker are pinning their hope in l MT. F'reemans acceptance of the | third place.
 Assessor Wheeler and Tucker spent l the past two days mailing taxpayers lists to property owners who do not | live in town. About five hundred
 non-residents pay taxes on PlainvilIe
 real estate and under the new law passed by the general assembly at 1 it's last session, blanks must be mailed 1 to them. Therefore non-residents | were not required to file lists with the
 assessors but the new law puts them | in the same class as the resident pro | perty owner and the penalty will be | imposed if they fail to send in a sworn 1 list of their holdings
 | The first session of the board Is l scheduled for tomorrow. It Is the
 plan to meet every day thereafter un | til October 27th. The members do | not anticipate much work this year l as the map prepared in 1914 will en- l able them to make up the grand list with hout a great deal of difficulty. Elk I | property have been made it is unlike | ly that there will be any material in-
 creases in the assessed value as not | ed on the grand list.
 Claims License Was Lost
 Claiming that his operators license
 was lost during the excitement which | attended the auto accident in Union vile Tuesday night, it was said today, | Harry Donahue of this place.. will
 probably plead not guilty to the
 charge of running a car without his | license card when he is arraigned in
 court this evening. The young man | and his friends, who were with him l on the trip from Compounce, declare | that the license card was in the ma | chine late in the afternoon. They be- ll0VS that become 1OSL dICer the car toppled over, following the collision
 with the telegraph pole. To a Her aid" man, Benjamin Driscoll, one If the occupants of the car vigorously denied that Donahue was intoxicated or that he was driving recklessly at the time of the accident.
 David Lawlor of Forestville, who is in St. Francis hospital, was reported this morning to be recovering from
 the injuries he sustained in the acci-
 dent It will be several days, how
 ever, before he will be able to leave the institution.
 The condition of Miss Jennie Man chester, another occupant of the car,
 who fared badly in the crash, was also
 reported today to be satisfactory. The
 girl is at the New Britain general hos
 pital.