The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-07
LITCHFIELD COUNTY NEWS.
Lost Four Fingers.

M Lost Four Fingers.
 While operating a wood. saw in | IIarvvinton on Monday, Henry Grohs,
 IA years old. had four fingers of his 1 right hand cut off.
 l Have 1T Children.
 A son, the seventeenth, arrived at l the home of MT. and Mrs. William 1 Bishop of Mooreville, Monday night.
 Tax lof 20 Mills.
 New Hartford has levied a tax of 20 ] mills. Partridges Scarce This Year.
 Reports from those interested par
 tfcularly in game birds. agree that
 cartridges 6ruffed grouse9 seem to be
 unusually scarce. This is attributed
 to the wet weather when the birds were comparatively young. F. z. 1Walcott joint owner of the large
 game preserve in Norfolk, says that
 a careful exploration of their terri
 tory revealed very few birds, and the
 covers are among the best in town.
 The mortality among the pheasants
 does not seem to have been so great,
 although it cannot be stated with au-
 thority All interested hope that
 sportsmen will shoot only the male
 pheasants this fall, as the woods are not fully stocked with these fine
 game birds and every female left over
 will hatch out goodly number of young next seasony while the males are too numerous.
 Fire Starts Idlacs Bloon1ing.
 A white lilac bush in the rear of B. E. L. TayIor's yard in Torringtou, is in bloom for the second time this Season This unusual occurrence is due to the fact that the bush was ex- posed to the extreme heat of the Perkins garage fire on August 2s.
 Very Narrow Escape.
 Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Canfield of New Marlboro, Mass, Frank Emprtmo, and a friend, had narrow escapes from. serious injury, if not death when fve-passenger touring car owned and driven by MT. Canf1eld, turned a double som mersault in East Canaan, Thursday night. The car was hitting a good clip and attempted to take a sharp curve when the ma chine left the highway and started its gynTastic stunts. The car was wrecked and the occupants were thrown clear of it. Mr. Garfield was most seriously injured, suffering painful bruises. His wife had a dis located shoulder.
 Fifteen prisoners were put to plea before Judge Gager at the opening Of tfle criminal term of the superior court at Litchfield Tuesday and all but four pleaded guilty. Pietro Sanbrino or Torrington pleaded guilty to the charge of uttering a false check and was sentenced to eight months in jail. Walter Andrews and George grant pleaded guilty to the harge of break ing into and entering Jesse Clarks s house at Freelands. Andrews was sentenced to the reformatory at Ches- hire George Wa1dronN of New Milford was sent to the refornaatory after pleaded guilty to the charge of break taining an automobile under false pre- lenses. Robert Heacox of New Hart for was sentenced to sixty days Tn Jail for breaking into. a tobacco ware house owned by, Charles Griffin John of New Milford received the heaviest sentence Of any prisoner He was sentenced to state prison for. not less than one year and not more than thre years on the charge of stealing a horse owned by Robert Thomas ot New Milford and was sentenced ito two years in state prison on the charge of seducing a 15-years- old colored girl. Frank Shipman, alias Frank Carroll, of Thomaston, was sentenced to the reformatory on af charge of burglary. Irving Waite Of Cromwell pleaded guilty to charges of assault and breach of the peace. In- asmuch as he had been confined to jail for three months awaiting trial, he. was released ou payment of $1 and l costs. Walter Arneson, who was ar | rested in Torrfngton- August IT, after being traIed through three towns. | pleaded guilty to stealing a horse. He told the court that he was on his way ] to return the stolen horse when he l was arrested. Sentence was suspend | ed < to allow the prisoners counsel to secure probation officer John Grof and Mrs. Viola, Curtis. who were ar l rested in a raid on the summer resi- dence of Mrs. James Cumming in East Litchfields Sunday night, pleaded gull ty to charges of adultery. States Att torney Warner recommended that the court deal lightly with the woman as she had turned states evidence. Groff l was sentenced to two months in jail Mrs. Curtis was Sentenced to three | months in jail, but sentence was shs- pended on condition that she report. regularly to the Torrington Relief as- | sociation. Three other prisoners who were arrested as a result of the raid | were fined S10 each. Groff posed as caretaker of the Cumming residence, but it was said that the real caretaker was George Williams, who had left town last Sunday. The following l pleaded not guilty: Bernon Waite of charged with indecent as-