Putnam patriot., 1915-03-05
POLICE HEARING
Common Council Listen to Facts Re.
 garding Burglary
Meeting Lasts Three Hours


 council was held Tuesday evening with Mayor Macdonald presiding. Present Aldermen Dady, Johnson, Marcy, Byrne, Duvert, Padget, Bouth- illette and LaRue.
 The resignation of Howard C. Brad- ford, assistant prosecuting attorney, was received and accepted. His bond as deputy judge and clerk of the city court was also received and accepted.
 The police report showed 10 arrests during the month of February, pris- oners sent to jail, electric light out 1S0 hours and two store doors found open and secured.
 Permits were granted Peter Boncer for dwelling on Grove Terrace, Arthur Bessinct house on Church street, Err nest Lauzouzy two-story house on Boulevard Terrace.
 communication was read from Mansfield Hose Company No. 8, re- gently consolidated with hose cempa- ny No. l, in which it was set forth that the hose wagon and much of the apparatus thereon had been purchas by members of the company with their own money and that as the company had no further use for it that the. bers felt that the city should purchase it and price of $250 was fixed. The matter was referred to the ire con- mittee.
 The mayor appointed ex.Mayor John J. McGarry a member of the board of water commissioners his term of office to expire in January, 1916.
 The hearing given the police regard ing the matter of the two breaks at the store of Milot & Williams was then taken up. It was thought that the hearing would bring out quite num- Der of citizens but there were very few present. MT. Milot, senior member of the firm, stated that the store was broken into Jan. 18th and again a week rlater. Some of the goods were recovered but he claims he has lost S500 worth of merchandise.
 Barrak Smith testified that he lives across the st rect from the store. That about 3 o'clock in the morning his wife awakened him and told him she thought the store was being broken into. He saw man guarding the front of the store walking up and down and occasionally putting his ear to the sidewalk to listen and making signs to someone inside the store.
 He telephoned the police station land Officer Cordier answered and he told the officer that he thought some one had broken into the store and the of ficer said he would come right over and bring dog with him and he did. When man saw officer coming he ran up the street. The officer looked in the store door and then went up the street. He did mot tell Mir. Cordier that there was man in the store. After the officer left the man came back and he saw clothes thrown over the tram som of the door and two men run with bundles under their arms. He tele- phoned the police again. Members of the council were allowed to ask the witnesses questions but when some questions were asked as to why wit ness acted as he did, this line of in- quiry was ruled out by the mayor as he said no person was on trial but an attempt to get the facts of what did happen was the only purpose of the inquiry.
 Wallace Smith, son of the former witness, said, in addition to facts told by his father, that he could see man inside the store. That when anyone was coming the man on the outside made signal and the man on the in- side would hide.
 Theodore Boulay said he met Officer Cordier on his way to the store. The afiicer stopped him and said that there was a robbery going on at Milot X Williams store. Witness told the of- ficer that he had just come by the store and saw nothing going on there.
 Officer Cordier testified that he reached the station house little after o'clock and called up the central tel ephone office as required by the rules and central told him there had been no call for the police Within a few min- utes the phone rang and 1t was Bar rak Smith on the wire. Mir. Smith said to him that there was some devil try going on in front of the store and he answered that he would be right down and would bring dog with him. Smith told him he would be on the lookout for him. The officer told of meeting Boulay, the previous witness. When he turned into Elm street he saw a man in front of the store and the man walked away leisurely as he turned the corner. He at first thought it was Sergeant Hayes. When ne ar- rived at the store he tried the door, looked at all of the windows and found that none were broken. Went in between the building and the next one and then back on the other side but could find nothing. He made second examination and finding every thing apparently all right went on his beat in the north end of the city with his mind absolutely rat rest. He did not notice that the transon was open
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