Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23
WATERFORD YOUNG MEN
HELD FOR TRIAL
Three Accused Of Blowing Up House
In Waterford Last April.

Before Morris Lubchanslzy as JUS
tice Of the peace at Quaker Hill this
morning, Fred Elliott, Herbert Dayton
and Christopher Beebe of Waterford.
who were arrested>by state policemen
Wednesday night had their cases
continued until August 5, at 10 a. m,
under bonds Of $500 in each case.
The three were arrested by State
Policemen Downing, Jackson and
Wheeler and were brought to the New
London police station. They were re-
leased in $500 bonds each to appear
before Justice Peter Taylor at Qua
ker Hill on Thursday morning, but
when the policemen brought the pris-
oners before him, he declined to hear
the gases SO that Mr.. Lubchansky pre-
sided.
There were three counts against
the young men, the first of which al
legged assault, with intent to murder
Mrs. Nellie Burdick of Waterford;
| second, carrying concealed weapons;
and the third of attempting to injure
person and property Of William Bur-
dick by the use OF dynamite on April
/, 1915.
The state claims that the young men
blew up a house in Waterford.
In behalf OF the state a motion was
made to continue the case for two
weeks and to hold the accused in
bonds Of $4,000 each, on the. ground
that two important witnesses had fed
| from the state since the arrest was
made.
Attorney George Curtis Morgan, who
/ represented the young men and their
| fathers, made no objection to the con-
1 tinuance, but did object strenuously
| to the amount of the bond, which he
| considered excessive. 1t was finally
decided to continue the cases until
Aug. at 10 a. M, under bonds of
$1,000 in each case. The bonds were
furnished by William n. Beebe, father
| of the Beebe boy, and James Elliott
| father Of the Elliott boy.
Elliott is 20 years old and Attorney
| Morgan was named as guardian at
iten. The other young men are obout
%. Attorney John J. Lawless prescott
ed
When word that the accused had
f, been turned loose under bond reached
the state, policemen and Attorney
| John j. Lawless, with the state po-
| licemen went to the New London po-
lice station, Wednesday night and a
1 spirited argument with Lieutenant
/ LETTERS followed. Lieutenant LETTERS
| insisted that he had a right to release
| the men and Lieutenant Downing was
| just as emphatic in his declaration
4 that the lieutenant had no authority
as it was a Waterford case. and ne
men were kept at the police station
/ simply for safe keeping and not I'M
| der the jurisdiction of the New Lon
| don authorities.
Attorney Lawless was exceeding
wroth at the action of the city po-
| lice. Attorney LawieSs said the
| charges against the young men, as
sauIt with intent to kill and murder,
carrying concealed weapons and using
/ dynamite to injury property and per-
son, carried with them an aggregate
| penalty of 20 years in state prison
and that q $500 bond in such a case
was ridiculously low.
Capt George Haven OF the police
said Thursday morning that the men
should not have been brought to the
police station but to the county jail as
it was q Waterford case and one for
the sheriffs. not for the New London
police.