Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-11
TEN CENTS A WEEK,
All That Was Paid Theodore Bodin 19, Who Appeared in Town Court

In these days of thrilling stories of fortunes made in war stocks, of riches pouring into the coffers of corpora tions and of the splendid wage scales in many industries and the universal prosperity of the United States and its people, generally speaking, it may be of interest to note an exception Theodore Bodin, strong and well de- veloped, 19 years of age and a hard worker has been receiving the mag niflcent salary of ten cents a week Theodore told his story in the town court, where frequently tales of an ex- traordinary degree of human interest come to light.
 Teddy landed in court to face a | charge of theft. It was alleged that he had broken into two huts belong | ing to woodchoppers in the northern section of the town. Teddy's mental capacity is not to be described as of superlattve rating and when he was asked to plead guilty or not guilty 1t of the terms to him before he could make intelligent reply. Once he sensed what was asked of him he said guilty"
 Teddy. of course, was asked to tell something of his history and move ments and it developed that he was at one time an inmate at the town farm According to Teddy's story, he was taken out and given a job by a man living in a village of Killingly. His job, as Teddy told about it, was 1 to be of a general laboring nature and among his otker duties was to act as teainer. He claims he was to have | been recompensed at the rate of $2 l per week and board, that he wodked | hard drawing at times as many as four loads of coal day from Dayville to | Attawaugan. He related to court of- | ficials that he didn't get any money excepting on Sundays, when he used to stick around until he received ten cents with which to attend the mo- 1 tion show at DayviIle this being a case of spending all of ones money in one place and at a single shot Teddy's story has aroused the curiosi- ty of the court officers and there is a possibility that there may be some in- | vestigation of it.
 Judge Woodward continued Bodin's ease during goeh behavior and the erstwhile prisoner went away in search of a job that he hopes will show him more lucrative returns than he claims he got while hauling coal.
 The Correspondents Side.
 CA" of Danielson, who writes let | ters to The Bulletin about hunting l hunters and farmers rights in wild game apparently didn't feel the point of the correspondence in this column on the subject last Wednesday morn ing. What was said didn't represent exclusively personal views of the cor respondent; it represented what hunt ers-not city sports or dudes-said to him about 1t. The correspondent is not a hunter-excepting for news and views.
 The correspondent did not write that hunters have some rights on farmers land because the state gives l them license to hunt, neither Is it to be inferred from what was writ ten that because a hunter has a liz cense he may hunt where he will. The state laws definitely indicate what rights a hunter is given when a H. cense Is issued to him or her, for there are some woman hunters. It does rot give a right to hunt 'posted'' lands, which lands constitute only a
 minor percentage of the acreage of Connecticut.
 What might be tho case '9f all land was posted" is beside the question, II must be granted that so long as tho present statutes of the state are In force and so long as the state con- :!nues to take license money from hunters to use at least In part for the propagation of wild game, to be re- leased on farm lands, the hunter has some rights in the game. He need not necessarily hunt 1t on forbidden territory. and there always, in all probabilltY,- will be free" hunting grounds. What tho laws governing 1A I-