Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-29
THEFT CHARGE MADE
 AGAINST HENRY COON
On Trial in Superior court-Edwin F. Yerrinston's Money Bag and Roll of Bills Disappeared.


 Most of Tuesday in the criminal su- perior court here was taken up with the trial of Henry Coon on the charge of theft of $100 from the late Edwin F. Warrington of Lantern Hill whom Mir. Coon was taking care of during an illness which ended in the death of MT. Warrington on July 21th last at the Warrington home. In the writ the time of the theft is placed as July 23, which was a Friday and Mir. Yer rington died the following Tuesday.
 During his illness MT. Warrington was known to have some money in a shot bag which he kept between the mat tresses of his bed and there was also a roll of bills besides. Both these disappeared. but what the exact amount was is not known. The near est measure of what it might be was witnesses on Tuesday who had seen $39.e4 counted and put back into the shot bag and also saw the roll of bills which was described as two inch es in diameter. This was a week be- fore the elder Warrington died. When the trial was begun on Tues day morning before Judge William H. Williams and a jury State Attorney Hull was assisted by Attorney Thomas E. Troland and the accused was de- tended by Brown and Perkins. l When put to plea Coon said Not guilty"
 The first witness called by the state was the daughter of MT. Warrington, Mrs Harold Barstow~of this city, who told of going often to see her father Fwhile he was i'll in July, when Coon
 was taking care of him, and also look ing after the store that the sick man was proprietor of She had seen Coon
 change money from her fathers shot bag. Later Coon told her that some
 one had taken her fathers money. EWhen he was asked who. had been at tthe place he said Mrs. Edwin Yerring- ton and Charles Warrington had been Ethere and had stayed over night. The laccused said this put him in a bad position.
 Abraham Bruckner, who had gone to
 the Warrington place to look. the fur
 niture over with view to buying il ling a good time on other. peoples money and saw Sylvester Freeman put : his fingers to his mouth and say "Mum's the word"
 Sylvester Freeman. colored, also Testified that he heard Coon talk about having good time with other peoples money.
 Joseph Williams, who was at the
 Warrington house when feather beds
 were removed, said he saw shot bags
 two of them, with money in them fal to the floor. They were picked uT Dy OOOl dllQ IdhCu lIllO dnQlL1CT TOOiu
 That was the last the witness saw oi them.
 Erastus w. Warrington of Taftville
 a son of the deceased, said the last
 time he was at the house was a day or two before the reported disappear father was in semi-conscious con- dition.
 Testimony as to the sale of a mat
 tress and it's delivery to Abraham
 Bruckner was given by Morris Suss.
 man, mattress manufacturer of thii . city.
 Mrs. Luey E. Warrington of Nortf
 Stonington, a sister of the deceased
 told on the stand of talk she haG , with Coon in which lie said 1t wasn'
 Charles who took the money, CooI
 also said ito her. If you're shrewd , lyou'll find out something" Alonzo Main. and Deputy Eherif
 George H. Stanton were also wItnesse,
 in the case and the last one on tn stand Tuesday was Charles Edwin Warrington of this city, eldest son 0 the deceased and administrator of hi
 estate. He said that the first he kney
 of. the disappearance of the none, was when Coon told him as they wer , Lat the Mystic road station where Nil v Warrington was waiting for a trolle . car.~ This was on Saturday, July 24tt
 At that time also Mir. Warrington pai
 | the elder Warrington. On Aug. 8 Coo ?. turned over to the witness $3.16, whic 2 was in a 5 cent salt bag along wit n a paper which was so badly wor that the figures on it could not b - read by Mir. Warrington. Coon sai lt this showed his accounts of money re ceived and paid. At that time MT. Yer s lrington paid Coon $19, which was i a final settlement.
 lt Court adjourned at ASo while Attor n ney Allyn L. Brown was cross exam r ming Mir Warrington The trial wi Q be resumed this morning. IS The jury in the case isi Charle r McGibney. William O'Mahoney. w. I T. Baker and Julius A. Brand, Norwich
 Charles c .Zabriskie, Preston; WillIal e C.. Sherman. Colchester; Samuel ] 1 Palmer, George Moler, Griswold II George B. Dimon. Lebanon; John II Tracy. Franklin; George A. Kenned, ' Lisbon; Albert G. Brown, voluntowI
 Hartford.-Rt. Rev. Chauncey T. Brewster and family have left Norti 2 east Harbor. Me. where they ha,