The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-25
BEDDING BURGLARY
 CASE SENSATIONAL
Three Involved in Wreck of Summer Cottage Held
 For High Court.
Especial to The Farmer.9

 accused
 About two weeks ago Mrs William MuHigan discovered that her summer cottage near zUmpaWaug Lake in this town had been broken into and robbed of most of the bed furnishings together with other domestic fabrics, clothing and various other articles. Mrs. Null ligan and her husband are both -prac- Using lawyers in New York A day ord so after the robbery she heard, from the partial concealmente of a fence on her premises, a man who was driving past say to his woman companion, 1T can hardly. realize that this is the house we robbed ..'8
 Immediately Mrs. Mulligan ran in front of the team and. seizing the horses brid1e told the occupants of the buggy that they were under arrest; They stoutIy denied her accusation and drove on. The couple were Arthur H. Crossman, a painter of @Ridgedeld, and his wife.
 Mrs. Multi gan lost nc. time in getting. out a search warrant and, executing it, Constable Taylor found in the Cross man house a quantity of goods much larger than the ordinary household equipment. Many of these Mrs: Multi gan identified as her property. such articles having a value of about $200. The search also disclosed a table and chairs which were subsequently, iden-s tif1ed by Mrs. Henry Butterworth, a, Ridgeheld summer resident, as her property. The /e1der Crossmans, were arrested for the Mulligan robbery and their son for the ButterWorth robbery Justice Walden acted as the trial mag 1strate in both prosecutions, holding the MulIigan hearings in Redding and the ButterWorth hearings in Ridge field. In the former case Attorney Swan of Bridgeport with a stenog- rapher assisted Grand Juror Duncan in prosecution and Attorney Cable of Danbury defended very stoutly. The Crossmans denied that they had fig ured in any such. team stopping incl. dent as Mrs. 5Nu1ligan described and in fact declared that. they had never driven on the road leading past her cottage. Nearly. every article seized by the officer was fought over in re- spect to identification Thus a New York clothing salesman swore. that e. sold Ato Crossman fur collar coat which Mrs. MulIigan averred she had bought in New York depaPtrnen ent store. There was pronounced a conflict of evidence over the owner ship of a gun, 5ut the battle wased number of sheets bearing the laundry mark 'sR. 4, 121, NJ A New York llaundryman testified that the marks had been put on at his establishment, of which the MuI1igans were patrons, the 4 indicating certain district or | denoted to their account and M. their designation by initial To offset this the defense called a. DanbtIry laundry man who declared that this identifca- ton was not conclusive as this mark ing system was common with public 1aundries and coincidence of cir cumstances might have produced a like tagging having reference to any person whose last name began with an M To this the State naturally retort- s11lr anyone having c. as the initial letter. But how did it happen that a sman family in moderate circumstances had such a plethora of domestic effects2 Easily explained, said the @defense. Previous to coming to Ridgefeld two or road house at Harrison, N. Y.. and when he gave up the business he brought most of the hotel furnishings with him. Furthermore it often hap pened that he accepted razors and oth- CT things from hard up transient pat rons. As to the laundry marks it was quite probable that the articles bear ing them were obtained at auction. sales.
 It was late on Tuesday evening be- fore the hearing in the case Of the younger defendant came to a close. Earlier in the day Justice Walden an. nounced his decision in the case of the other two, finding probable cause and placing them under bonds of $1, GOO each for trial before the superior court. Subsequently he gave 8 like decision in the case of the son. Bail not being forthcoming the trio were committed to jail
 The Farm Bureau movement in all it's aspects will be fully set forth at two public meetings to be held in this town tomorrow (Ndarch 26). The first takes place in the town hall at 1:3O D.
 m. and will have as the principal speaker F. J. Wright, the newly ap- pointed county agent of agriculture for Fairfield county. All farmers and citizens generally are invited to at tend this meeting and fully acquaint themselves with the objects of the
 movement, what it has accomplished elsewhere and what 1t seeks to-do in this county and the methods by which it will strive to put more money in the pockets of the producer. MT. Wright will be glad to answer all questions from those seeking detailed inforna- tion. The second meeting occurs at o'clock in the Center Methodist church and has two motives, the first being the same as that of the afternoon meeting and the second to interest pa- rents in the School Garden movement This latter phase will be elaborated by A. J. Brundage of storrs Agricul- tural College with the aid of stereopti- con views, while MT. Wright will again talk on the general features of the subject. School Supervisor Lowell in explaining the purpose of the Brun- dage lecture says: There is an in creasing demand for agriculture in the schools. To what extent this can be prof1tably done yet remains a question. but in this movement there is an op- portunity to interest children in agri- culture. MT. Brundage has been in each of the schools and talked on this subject so now it is our wish to put the matter before the parents and get their support. This matter has the support of the school board in town and think can be made a great asset to the town
 Last Friday was the date of the hfty-second anniversary of the mar riage of ME and Mrs Iessa [. sar