New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
Big Bargains in Mems Fur Coats
 

watch, and after the arrest framed" | the defense.
 The patience of the judge was ex- hausted by this time, Brown was too l late with his confession and, as Shea 1 took his hat and left the court room, 1 Sheriff Clark took Brown in custody. Carro recovered his chain this morning, but not the watch. The ticket agent at the Wallingford sta 1 tion had found the chain. The watch could not be found.
 Death of George H. Gray. George H. Gray, an old and re- spected resident of the town, died
 at o'clock this morning at his home
 on Worthington ridge, after finger
 ing illness incident to old age. Fun
 eral arrangements have not yet been made. but it is probable that ser vices will be held from his late home
 Saturday afternoon, Rev. Samuel A. Fiske officiating.
 MT. Gray came to Amreca in 1852 with his brother John. They were friendless and alone. John obtained a good position which he resigned to
 enlist in the army during the Civil war. He was never heard from again
 and the deceaseds only living rela- tive is his widow.
 MT. Gray was born in the suburbs of London. England, November 25, 1886, a of Cornelius and Eliza beth Gray. The father was a team
 ster and lived in England until his
 death only short time ago MT.
 Gray was one of four children. When
 a child. he attended public school
 in England where the pupils were tn fO hn1
 the expenses of the school Later
 he attended a private school. He left
 school to become groom with one
 of the wealthy families, and went to
 Scotland, where he remained several
 weeks, then returnd to England. In
 August, 1852, at the age of sixteen
 years, he sailed for America with his
 brother, landing at New York after
 an ocean voyage of six weeks and
 three days on a sailing vessel of tho
 Swallow Tail line, one of the two
 then operated between London and New York.
 Both boys secured positions as
 stable boys at a race track on Long
 Island, where they remained for
 several weeks. The boys then started
 afout' for Vermont. The brotAr
 stopped at Waterville Conn.,, and ac- i
 knitter MT. Gray worked for about
 two months on a farm of lawyer at
 Roxbury, Mass then for a similar
 period tried bla lacksmithing, which he
 found too hard. He then became foreman of q farm in RoXbury, Mass, remaining in the position for ten years.
 Starting in 1862 for New Britain, where his brother had been foreman at the Sargent Knitting factory, MT. Gray learned at New Haven that his
 brother had enlisted in New Jersey in the Civil war, and he has never heard from his since. Arriving at Berlin, he began work on the farm of Norris P Dunham. but soon af- ter enlisted in Company F. Connecti- 1 cut Fourteenth V. l. However, he was not accepted on account of defects in his left leg that had been broken Until the following March. he was 1 employed by Henry M Robbins, of Newington, then became farm fore man for Amos Crttenden of the same time, and remained in that position three years He left in 1867 to take charge of the farm of Mrs. Olive $. Selden, and has ever since remained
 in Berlin After Mir. Selden's death he built his home on property willed , to him by Mrs. Selden.
 MT. Gray married January 4, 1867, Miss Sarah Isabella Whapples. To them were born three children, all of whom died in childhood.
 MT. Gray was a member of the