The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-06

on it. The statute gives one the pfly- nege Of killing deer with shotgun when frespassing on -one's own land, that is,s if they are damaging the crops. [ have an old muzz1e- loading double barreIed gun. About three weeks ago I took it out of the closet and cleaned it.
 Three days in succession about the middle of April, the deer came and ate what they wished and gaIloped off We saw no more of them until the 18th. At that time the grain was two feet high and the sight of the four deer galloping back and. forth across the lot aroused some feelings besides admiration. I put two gener- oI1s charges into the old gun and went toward the deer. A detour brought me to the windward of them. An old stone wall helped to shield me from their sight. For about if teen rods I craw1ed along on the ground pushing the gun ahead of me. Then cooking both barrels cauti- ously raised myself on one knee and discovered the buck less than one hundred feet away and facing me with 1 head erect His suspicious were evil dentIy aroused. knew 1t would be only Seconds before he would be off. 1 It only took one to draw a. bead on his head and pull the trigger. He never knew what hit him. He drop I ped dead in his tracks. found my self on my back from the kick of the gun. The deer weighed one hun dred and fifty pounds. am in my lseventy fourth year
 1 Auto Events
 Seven automobinsts arrested during the week by Constable Frank B.
 Sturges of Westport, appeared before T Justice S. A. Purdy there Saturday
 and being found guilty of technical lviolations of the auto laws. were each 4 fined $1s and costs, amounting to I $9.9D. There was one appeal by Fred
 erick T. Coleman, of Norwa1k All M arrested were charged with driving
 without tail lights. Those who wkere
 fined were: D. P. Jordan, of Stam-
 ford; Harold Canuell. of Darien;
 John Michael. of Norwa1k; frederick
 T. Coleman, Norwallzs E. J.~Sanford
 Bridgeports Joseuph Shea, Norwalk
 and George B. Sartain, Fairfield. But no more autoists will be arrested
 there and for such offense as not hay. ing tail lights at night, unless it iE Nl proved that the acts are intention
 Constable Frank B. Sturges has beer
 requested by First Selectnan Austi1
 Wakeman to discontinue the practice
 MT. Wakeman said to a reporter that :, he believed it unjust to make arrests i when many lights are jared out jus before arrests are made by the con i, stable.
 T. Marvin Stocking, who was tn, } father of a bill, which was enacted when he represented Bedding in tn,
 legislature and which provided SC
 we're punishment for those Autoist who purposeIy OF inadvertently 1ef : : their tai1lights un1ighted, now find himself about to be tried for this sam
 offense. He was apprehended las 2 week in Westport
 Z At Stamford last week, 8, touring : car owned by George M. Pynchon o
 Greenwich, slzidded on the slipper, , Warrenite. swerved into an embark ? nent, and turned over. Charles Wood | have, chauffeur Fred Sampson,
 Greenwich man, and Miss Gray, sail
 to be maid in the employ Of MT. Pyn
 ehon, were in the car. but they es
 caped injury by Jumping. One sid S of the automobile was badly dam I aged.
 e About fifty motorcyc1ists from Ne1 ). York State were held up at Green r E.wich yesterday and given the alter = native of turning back to New T or t State. The Greenwich police are act e ing under orders of Secretary of4S Stat 6 Burnes, who recently received a s opinion from Attorney General Hin t man that the old law, providing tta q all motorcycles driven into this Stat Q shall have markers, is operative. 4 n the present time New York State doe