The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-02
Coroner Expresses Belief That Police Were Justified in Firing Upon Young Desperate, But He Calls Many Witnesses As He Begins Official Inquiry.
Death-bed Scene of Youth Most Dramatic He Dies Breathing Defiance to the Police and Giving Matter of Fact Instructions As To Disposition of His Body.

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 How LyndaI Bosworth. the 21 year old bandit. Slain in his flight from ar rest in Stratford, yesterday, became. from a trusted bank clerk, a despera- do known through out the country, was revealed here today in the police investi cations of Bosworths record.
 While Coroner John J. PheIan made plans for an inquest which began at 2:3O this afternoon, in. which he will look into the Justifcation for the shooting down of young Bosworth as he fled, the local and New Haven police. working in conjunction with the Rhode Island authorities. were busy checking up various tales of the yonng mans life. with the result that his life story as now told is thrilling in the extreme.
 The New Haven police say now that they have no definite information that Besworth was the slayer of Justice w. s. Knowles, who was shot dead at his home in Scttuate. R. l., in Septem- Der. They have information from John McNazly. alleged confederate which they say indicates that he may have been the murderer of the Rhode Island judge.
 Bosworth came from respectable family in the suburb of Anthony, R. T.. He is survived by his parents and one sister, who is studying in Mas saehusetts college.
 The young bandit first began his criminal career in the fall Dof 1913 when he was in the employ of the Union Trust company of Cranston, R. T., in the capacity of clerk He was a trust ed enpIoye and was often left alone in the office where was stored large the Gall of that year he disappeared and with him went a typewriting ma chine. He was apprehended by the Providence authorities and served a short term in the county Jail.
 This was xhe first of a criminal ca reer Late in the same year he was arrested in Ottawa, Canada where on a charge of larceny he was sentenced. to six months in the penitentiary.
 After his sentence expired the young criminal returned to his -old haunts in Providence and often he was arrested by the police of that place and held as a suspicious character.
 In June, 1915, Bosworth held up an ice cream peddler at the point of a gun on Franklin street, Providence. the peddIer had.
 At the time of Bosworth's apprehen- sion in New Haven warrant had been issued for his arrest by the au- thorities of Cranston- Here he was wanted on charge {, grand larceny. He is alleged to have been a profes- sfona1 panhand1er in the saristocratic section of Anthony, R. I.
 Although several newspaper cIfp- pings referring to the assassination Of were found by the New Haven police when searching Bosworth,s hiding place, a barn on the outskirts of the Elm City, the Providence authoFfties are not inclined to place much strength in the theory that the young sdG h16 murder of the magistrate who was, ambushed and shot down while enter ing his house on Labor Day evening.
 To further substantiate the inno- cenee of the dead criminal Mrs. George B. Bosworth, his mother, claims to have in her possession a let ter from her deceased Nson which is dated September 6, 1915, and post marked Jersey City, N. J.
 Bosworth is a. native of Providence to the suburb of Anthony where they now live.
 After an autopsy had been per formed at 2:3O this afternoon at Cu1- fnan Mullins morgue by Medical Examiner S. M, Garlick upon the body of Bosworth, the body was en- balmed and made ready for shipment to the home of the home of the des- perado's parents, MT. and Mrs. Geo. B. Bosworth of 16O Burlington ave- nue, Providence, R. T.
 Undertaken Henry E. Bishop of 13S 5 Fairfield avenue. received a teIeph one call at 3 o'clock this morning from Byron B. Read, undertaken at An fhony, R. l., a suburb of Providence ; asking him to complete arrangements for the shipment of the body by an 2 early train this evening. It will be shipped to the home of the bandit S parents. where funeral services will be held tomorrow and the burial com pIeted as soon as possible
 At present the body is at the morgue of Cullinan & Mullins, on Main street Medical Examiner s. M. Garlfdk performed an autopsy at g2 80 this afternoon. The coroner,s 7ehearing was held in the office of Cor oner John J. Phelan in the Sanford building at o'clock.
 The question connected with the hearing is the 1egality~of the action of tie police in shooting to death the young bandit. It is admitted by the police that no shots were exchanged and that Bosworth was fleeing from capture when fired upon. therefore the police were not shooting in self defence. It is the belief, however of Coroner PheIan that the statutes of the state will uphold the police in their action.
 Coroner PheIan said:
 s.The question as to the legality of the shooting will be the main topic
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