The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-20
FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEWS.
His Burns Fatal.

Horribly burned by the flames from a blazing paper which his three-year- old brother, George W, had dropped on him, Ar1in o. Faulds. IT,, one-' year-old, son of MT. ArIin o. F'aulds, of Norwalk, died Monday night after an hour of suffering. Mrs. Faulds went out of the house for a few moments leaving her two chi1dren, George and ArIin playing on the floor. Arlin was just able to creep about from place to place, but his three year-old brother was able to make his way without much difficulty. The children paused in front of the stove in the parIor. The door was open. George seized paper and started to put it into the stove. It caught fire before he could get it into the stove and the child unWittingly with drew the blazing paper and tossed it over his baby brother, who was on the floor nearby. In a moment the infant was a mass of flames. Fanny, af pet. collie dog. parked loudly and ran back and forth. When the dog saw his mistress arrive, he rushed for, her, seized her franticalIy by the skirt and started to drag her towards the room where her child1 was burning. Awakening to ind his room ablazeB Louis Benedict, of Bethel, who lived in the old tobacco wareh ouse owned by Jacob s. .Mayhew, barely managed to escape with his life, when fire de- stroyed the warehouse Saturday night. Benedict who is between TO and so years of age, had been i'll for several days When the fire started, sup posedly from a defective stove, or lamp, he was in bed asleep. Before aroused the flames had made consid :. erable headway. Determined to save some of his belongings, he threw such of those as were handy into his trunk, and managed to drag the heavy trunk downstairs and out of doors When not many feet from the rapidly burn ing building his strength failed him and he collapsed. MT. Meyers, own CT of the burned warehouse, Lost about $100 worth of tobacco. boxes, sleigh, numerous farnning implements. sever al mattresses, blankets, etc In all the loss is estimated at something over $500.
 Deer Caught in Sound.
 A buck deer was caught by Stanley and William G. Chard, Greenwich oysterme en. in the waters of Long Isl- and Sound, Tuesday The animal had evidently attempted to swim from the 5mainland to- Red Stone Island, and became exhausted en route. It had turned back toward the shore, and, when first noticed it was strug- gling hard with the current. The men had little difficulty in securing it with a rope. and lowed it to the shore. They locked it up in a. garage for the night. but the animal raised such a rtlmpus when put in confne- ment. that the captors were forced to Hberate it. NY Both Feet Frozen.
 : With both feet frozen. one side of his face frozen. and suffering from exposure to the cold for five days and nights without anything to eat, John Anderson. aged 54. who claims Black stone, Mass. as his home, is a, patient in the~ Danbury hospital His con ditIon is serious and if he frecovers from the exposure it is almost cer- tain that he will have to lose at least one of his feet. The man was found lying on the floor of a barn. with only an overcoat and a small pile of hay for protection against the bitter cold. This had not been sufficient, He told the police he walked to the barn where he was found. from Ridge1e1d, last Thursday. The day before that, he says, he walked to Ridgefield from NorwaIk. He said he had had noth- ing to eat since Thursday and his ap- peara4nee would seem toN prove his statemen