Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-11

and complaints have been frequent against the cri1ninaily immoral con- ditions that existed in at least two places. One is case where a mar ried woman is living with a man, not her husband, and is visited by people who are not of the highest reputa- ton for good living. Ratrolunen Mich olas and Parker have had this place under surveillance, but were unable to get just the kind of evidence re- Quired to convict, although the woman in this case frankly acknowledges that she lives with her affinity, in prefer ence to her husband.
 The other place under suspicion was the tenement occupied by Daniel Wat son and his wife. Nellie Watson. that was complained of as being a baudy house. The officers have watched this place for several weeks and on Sun day night they raided the Watson place, arrested MT. and Mrs. Watson, ana secured three women and a man as witnesses. AS additional witnesses Selectman Chesebro was summoned, as was also Patrick Whalen and Clement Sharon who reside in tenernents in the same building, and Ralph Lawton, 8 wholesale liquor dealer.
 MT. and Mrs. Watson were arraign- ed before Judge Frank H. Hinckley in the Stonington town court Monday, charged with keeping a place reputed to be a house of Ill fame, place of assignation, where there was carousal, drunkenness and fighting and so on. The accused pleaded not guilty The witnesses besides those named were Mrs. Hattie Greene, Charles Peckham, Minnie Crandall and Fanny Miner. The eases were prosecuted by Attorney Benjamin H. Hewitt. After hearing the evidence, Judge Hinckley declared MT. and Mrs Watson guilty of the of nha Y1H O fin of s60 and costs upon each. MT. Wat son could not pay and he was com mitted to the county jail in New Lon- don. Mrs. Watson told the court she could probably settle If given oppor- tunity. In her case sentence was sus-
 Michael Donohue and Walter Bur detta were arratgned on the charge of intoxication and each was fined s2 and costs, making a total for each of Sl46S They could not pay and were com nlitted to Jail thereby increasing the total to $1s.3S each.
 The train that brinas the early morning mail and newspapers from New York to Westerly. due to arrive at 5.so. arrived on time, Monday morn ing, but the mail was delayed in de- livery end most of the newspap pers were ground beneath the car wheels or whipped by the wind along the roadbed. This train does not stop at Westerly, but is supposed to slow down as 1t passes the station so as to give ample time to throw the mail pouches and the newspapers onto the station platform, but there was no showdown Monday morning.
 The train whizzed past the station at a mile-a-ninute clip and the mail the station and near the West street bridge. unknown, of course. to the baggage man at the station An hour later a young man who saw the mall pouches near the bridge reported the find to the haggagernan and the mail secured and properly forwarded to des- ti7atton. Someone erred, whether the engineer or the mailman, but the in- cfdeut was reported to the proper de- partment.
 section of Town Topics. is of local interest: Mrs. Henry E. Darlington Is a yolIng-and shall we say attrac- tive ?-wjdow. Her husband died fortnight or more ago from bullet wounds fin the head and plans for the the body cremated with what, to the rank and file, might be termed un- seemly haste. Then Connie (sle was Constance Alden before she married Mir. Darlinston) gave away her colored closed car, planned for an outfit of for the Pacific coast. The Rev. Dr. Maitland Alexander, who is very clever at smoothing things out-or over, as you will-took charge of the funeral and the disposal of the body. Mrs. Darlington Is to stay in the west indefinitely"
 CouneiImen Francis G, HasweiI, Maurice w. Flynn and Charles G. Craig, the highway committee of the town of Westerly, who have in charge the rebuilding of the highway between the villages of Westerly and Watch Eill, were in Hartford Monday in con- sultation with State Highway Conn missioner Bennett, by appointment. They received considerable informa- ton on road building, including the varied materials used, the cost of con- were also shown sample stretches of highways of different construction, The highway committee Is endeavoring to be right before going ahead with rebuilding the highway upon which be- tween $So,o0o and $T0,0o0 is to be ex- pended.
 Twenty members were present at the January meeting Of the Westerly Min- isteriai association held Monday in the MeLaoT1al ana AlDf6fy building, Key, Albert F. Earnsilaw of Mystic read an interesting paper on The Socialist Movement in England, which was fol- lowed by general discussion. The association gave Rev. MT. Earnsf1aw a vote of thanks for his excellent paper.
 
 President Ethan Wilcox of the West. eriy Historical seeIety will proeent . paper at the meeting of tho society Thursday evening tn the Memorial and Library building on the subject of Li- brary peveioptuent in Westerly. Mir Wilcox was librarian of the old Pawca. tuck library and librarian Of the Vest eTiy public library stflea ita inception up tp i've years ego, when he became librarian emeritus, On the second Thufsday in February Albert 3. Pen- dietor will read a paper on the topic Watnh 1Iiil Road. At the March meet ing Eugene B, PerdietDn, q former postrnastar, will submit paper on The Old PcstnaasterH of Westerly.
 pistrles Deputy Nicholas Arandt el Pawtuetat raised tifess chiefs ts eA. alted PesitieBs In ths Afisauamicui trthe, ImpFoved oTasr Red Mem Waifes Nash, seehatB; William 6aun. 1efs, seaieF eAgHzhAFei Frederick ReuitaF, junior sasamersI 5ehn B MeFfis9H, Keeper of FaRBfdss Alfred H Ghapmea, epllerteF af wampuHl Will. Ham MiH6heH, keapeP Of Wampumi Otil H Gha3Haaf DF0Diaef Tha fetfrine