The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-09
OF
 DASTARDLY CRIME
 STILL UNEXPECTED
Two Rewards Offered For Au- thors of Night Raid
 In Bedding.

lar-y, robbery and felonious assault, of which Mrs. Caroline Sherwood was the victim on the morning of Sun
 day, June 20, at her home at Pine Tree Corner are still at large and undetected despite the efforts made by Sheriff Banks and other author1- ties to run them down. Like the towns numerous arson cases the burg lary is likely to remain g mystery as regards the perpetrators. Mrs. Sher- woods employer has expressed
 willingness to pay reward Of $1oO for the apprehe ension of the cupr1ts
 and there is also the town Durgiary reward of $50 so that inducements for detective work on the case ar0 not lacking. Tn tho first instance suspi- cton fell upon certain persons, but diIigent inquiry hes brought out not4- ing announttng to actual evidence It appears that just before the crimes commission a rurnor got about that
 Mrs Sherwood had received several
 hundred dollars from the sale of prop erty in which she had an interest
 and hence the theory that the cfrend- CTS were in pursuit of this supposed treasure. Were this the fact how ever they would naturally have made l a search for the money whereas they I did nothing in this direction after l they secured tfear vfctim's purse con- Sherwood says that her assak1aTltS srnel1ed very strongly of nquOr.
 Another gift of $50 has come to Bedding Fire Go. the donor being H. S. Barnes who thereby expresses his anprec1atfon of the good work done by the department at his recent barn fire. The previous donation of $50 came from. D. c. Wood. At the first
 annual needing of the company, held on Tuesday evening, the nominating
 coxnn4t1ee reported list of perna- uent officers who were elected as fol- 1 lows: presf dent, H. s. Barness vice. president, s. c. Shaw; secretary and
 treasurer, John Muennfch; directors: I w. c. Sanford, M. Joseph Sullivan, I George s. Banks, IT. Sanford Osborn. J. B. Sanford; chief engineer, Rev Raymond Cunningham; assistants: Vim. Rosenau, Randolph Bradley. 1 Samuel Osborn. It was voted that the EboundaTies of the fire district should be the town line on the north, east and south and the Hometown main road on the west the limits further I extending westward at the Center to the residence of B. T. Gorham and also I lcomprisfng the Sanfordtown district I down to the weston line. The dis I trdct takes in about half the towns l territory and the Center section was I included on the assumption that the
 residents would provide an additional engine to be located at the Center. I The first step towards raising money 4 for that purpose was the barn dance I given by J B. Sanford on Tuesday i evening. It yielded about $20 and a.
 canvass for subscriptions will be at once started. President Barnes will provide in the new barn he isabout to build, a frost proof compartment for storing one of the present engines now located in Milo Osborn's barn. EBefore the meetinE,s adjournment be-. tween twenty and thirty signed as charter members Of the company.
 The Putnam Park commission, as
 constituted by the new term appoint ments, held its first meeting at the park on Tuesday and organized as I follows: president. Robert Alexander;
 vice-pres1dent Mrs. Albert A. Cor
 Imam: treasurer, John S. Reids secre- I tary, D. g. Sanford The new mem- Ibers are Mrs. Gornom of this town,
 succeeding Mrs. John Tweedy. and Ma than Sp1ro Of Danbury succeeding Henry A Gilbert. After an inspec- ton of the grounds the commission decided to rebuild the wall at the rear of the pavilion and arrangs for some Il minor 1rnprove1n nentM It was also
 fhep ark in view Of paasersby a large descriptive sign The offer made some years ago by E. A. Bartram of land for the layout of new road nortf1ward from the park was dis Icugsed at some length. As the com
 n1ieston understands the matter the offer does not comprise the hilltop Isaid to have been used as a. signal
 station during the Revoluti onary
 struggle. Its acQufremenf Is deemed desirable both on account of it's his
 tor1c interest and because it is es- sentfal to the extension of the pro-
 posed road to a public highway and Isuch requirement would involve the purchase of the land. MT. Bartram
 will be requested to repeat his offer in writing, setting forth the terms
 in full detail Another project dis
 cussed at the meeting was a fire
 proof building to contain the coi1ec-
 ton of historical relies.
 + Probably another month will be re- Iquired to complete the survey and
 mapping of the towns woodland
 tracts which was recently begun by
 Chief Engineer Moss of the State For
 estry department assisted by two stu
 dents of the Yale Forestry school. The
 party is now working in the Umpa- waug section on tracts which have
 been mostly cut over to supply fuel for lime burning. The next scene of
 cir. lagbors will be the district in
 the northeast part of the town known
 as the Hast woods. So far they have encountered no opposition from the
 owners of property on which they
 wished to go and none should be of I fered as the survey is a State project
 having for it's ultimate purp ose the conservation and development of Con- necucut's forest resources. This is
 the first town to have such a survey Be1ore It Is 1tntshed public meeting g
 will probably be held to be addressed
 by State Forester FflIey in regard to
 the character and objects of the work
 More gravel is being carted upon
 the State road across the Ridge which
 under this treatment approaches the
 standard of excellence, belonging to a
 trunk line. At the same time an ob-
 servant public wonders why the pres
 ent application of gravel did not pre-
 cede instead of follow top dressing
 with sodium chloride. The latter na- l teria1 is doubtless an improvement
 over the oily substance formerly used,
 but cannot be of much use when bur jed under several inches of gravel.
 The condition of J. Henry Duncan
 steadily grows worse according to re- l fv.r1oo f511 NEi5