The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-11
OFFICER TOO TASTY
 IN MAKING ARRESTS.
Game Warden Smith Vexed By Action of His Ridge field Deputy-One De- fendant Paid Costs For Attempted Bribery.

Bedding, Feb. 11-There is, pend ing in the legislature a bill provid- ing that the Georgetown or second district shall have a voting place for local as well as state and presideh- tia1 elections. Who is the author of the measure does not appear, but the change sought has been the sub- ject of some previous agitation in which B. A. Pinkney was active. Sew era1 years ago he obtained a legal opinion to, the effect that the pres ent law required a voting place on the west side for all elections while the seIectnnen got from another law yer advice directly to the contrary. Prominent Georgetown residents will oppose the present bill unless it is amended so that the business session of the annual town meetings and the election of town officers shall be held on different dates. Otherwise the business session which must be held at the town house would be likely to have a scanty representation on the part of west side residents A large part of the voting population Of Georgetown is composed of the Gilbert & Bennett employees and it is urged that they should have the convenience of nearby voting place because few of them own teams. Be- sides the Gilbert & Bennett shops do not usually close for local elections. Az committee nearing upon the D1tls referred to is assigned for next We'd nesday at Hartford. So far the se- 1ectmen have not made known their attitude regarding the measure
 Had not Norman Walker, deputy game warden at RidogedeId, been so hasty last Thursday he mi ght have obtained evidence sufficient to justify his arrest of Frank De Martino and Joseph Defolio for the hunting of rabbits out of season. The two men we're in a field at BranchvfIle and be- cause they carried guns Walker as stunned that they had unlawful de- signs on rabbits and took them in- to custody before they had fired a shot or did any other overt act on which to base a prosecution. Coun- ty Warden Smith was called from Norwalk to press the case and did not conceal his, ehagrin over the deputys tspreviousne ess. z Defolo, when arrested, offered the officer $10 to let him go and to avoid prose-. cution for this attempt at bribery he paid costs. of 8.38. On the charge of illegal hunting the accused were acz quilted. They claimed that they went out for fox hunt, taking along a dog trained for that sport and had no designs on rabbits.
 While in the wooded country be- low his house one day last week Geo s. Banks heard a rattIing in the thick
 
 locking In that 1irecfior1 saw that the noise had been made by two young deer, both doe. An instant la ter he caught sight of a full grown. buck with large antlers. This buck was soon joinA5 by another and then the four scampered off together Eub- sequentfy Mir. Banks obtained another view of the same herd, which had meanwhile increased to nine head and was then making Ieisure1y progress into the woods in the direction of Weston.
 At the adjourned meeting held in NorwaIk on Monday for the advance ment of the project for establishing a country farm bureau those in at tendance from this town were: c. H. Plumb. w. B. C1ahin, Albert A. Cor ham, C.. N Kent, E. I. Gorha.m, Vim A. Grouse, and J, G. Haw1ey. MT. Grouse was chosen as the Bedding representative on the board of direc- tors. He is an active member of Bedding Grange ands for the past two years was the Democratic candidate for tax collector.
 Two sessions of the board of re- lief, the second occurring last Mon pearanee of single applicant seek ing a reduction of tax valuation The members busted themselves in making a comparison between the figures on the list and those in the abstract and found a few discrepancies. At their