Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-05


 Half dead from injuries, exhaustion and exposure, his swollen and bruised face and head smeared with dried blood and his clothes drenched from the hard rain of the night John FL iott, murderer of Burt Pettis and his daughter, Sybil, was captured about ' o'clock Thursday morning at the farm of Holland Mills, not much more | than three quarters of a mile from | the location of his crime. He was l taken without struggle. A search of his person resulted in finding three i reVolvers and 137 rounds of ammuni- tlon, but he was too far gone to offer even feeble resistance.
 | The armed posse that captured him 1 and held him until the arrival of Sher- | if w. N. Bates of Thompson, who was in sight of the Mills place and made up of men from the neighbor- 1 hood. They were prepared to go the | limit in their efforts to take Elliott, 1 but were not put to any trouble. The murderers one feeble effort to reach 1 for one of his guns was followed by l a leap by member of the posse and Elliott was felled to the ground.
 Fracture on Skull.
 After being taken to the home of | Sheriff Bates, Dr. R. c. Paine, medical examiner in the town of Thompson, was called. He looked over Elliott's | injuries and it was later announced that the most serious of these was a fracture on the left side of the skull. | One eye was swollen and almost closed. Elliott was otherwise bruised about the face and it is assumed that the murderer engaged in a desperate fight with Burt Pettis Tuesday morn 1 ing in the WoodShed at the PettiS home before he succeeded in killing him. But as to this, Elliott cannot be induced to talk nor can he be on any other subject. It is possible that his condition is such that his mind is not sufficiently clear to allow of his mak- ing statement.
 Held Without Bail.
 I After being given considerate care and medical attention, Elliott showed no improvement in condition. An in- formal hearing was held before Jus tice Randolph H. Chandler, the com Iplaint of murder in the first degree being entered against him by George V. Ballard, a grand juror of the town of Thompson, and probable cause was
 found for holding the prisoner for trial. He was bound over without bail, hustled into an automobile and taken to the county jail at Brooklyn of Willimantic and Deputy Sheriff w
 N. Bates of Thompson.
 Found Seated in a Wagon. T. when MT. U11llS came out or hlS home just before o'clock Thursday
 morning he was surprised to see the
 figure of man seated in a wagon al
 one of the sheds on his premises Ht recognized Elliott, who sat doubled over with his head resting on hi. |. hands and knees MT. Mills went bacl ! to the house and notified Sheriff Bates who told him to keep a watch on thu 1 | man and to summon other help. Fl y lfott appeared to be dazed. He. re
 mained where he was during the tim |. that the neighborhood was bein.
 aroused. Among those who responded
 to the call from the Mills place wer,
 Clifford Greene, a neighbor of the Pet
 tis family and who has been an un
 tiring trailer of Elliott, Greene's sol Wesley Winn, Forrest Rhodes ant
 others. With Sheriff Bates came hi " brother Frank, his nephew and Fre1
 Ramsey.
 . Reused at Sight of Men. ' Elliott reused up as he saw the me! f and attempted to shuttle away. Tn . only sign he made of offering resist = ance was in slowly reaching for one o
 his guns, but, he never got as far a . getting his hand upon it. His captor r were amazed at the mans condition v AS they loweredi the ring of guns tha # had been pointed at Elliott, he ap = peared to be no more than able n stand. He was quickly searched an II relieved of his guns, two of the auto e matic type and one of the revolve "a type, all of .32 calibre, and of the am if munition with which he was so we "a fsupplied.
 Only Five Feet in Height. al Word of his capture spread ovt
 ali the towns in the vicinity within
 few minutes and many hurried to u
 Bates home to see Elliott. Those WI
 did not know the fellow were astouni
 ed when they looked upon the undei
 sized, dwarf7sh creature and stoppt to realize that he had been able