Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

 made an increase of from five to ten
 per cent. on all taxable property and there has been a general protest | against the raise on the ground that 1t was made to meet the expense of rebuilding the Watch Hill road. As matter of fact the increase was prac- tically ordered in May in annual f1nan-. cial town meeting and at a time when | the Watch Hill road building was giv-. en no consideration. Five months later, l in October the petition for rebuilding l the Watch Hill road was receved by l the town council and referred to spe- l cial town meeting when S65,00O was voted for the improvement Therefore l the increase in taxes was decided upon before the Watch Hill road work was suggested.
 Two of the keepers from the Rhode island state prison, with Chief Thomas E. Brown, and Deputy Sheriff William Fl. Casey of PaWcatuck, went to Pleas ant View Monday afternoon to hunt for John Allen. alias "Skeete,'' who escaped from the state prison a week ago, with two years of a four years sentence for burglary yet to- serve. l Allen was in North Stonington last Friday and the keepers came with the l intention of going to North Stoning-
 ton and pick up Aliens trail from there.
 | 1n0 cottage or 11OWdrd bapCOCk was 1 broken into Saturday night, entrance being effected by smashing out a pane of glass, sliding the catch and rais- ing the sash. Among the articles taken was an automatic revolver. This much I was reported to Chief Brown early ing for North Stonington on the hunt for Allen, Mrs. Babeocl telephoned
 that the man who had entered the cot tage had not only taken the revolver, lav.f 1-% C1yif f<.fD Ra6n oI4 4Nl, | ing, leaving his own clothes and also a shotgun. Skeete Allen took a shot gun with him when he skedaddled from prison and had the gun with him in
 North Stonington. Chief Brown de-
 clared there was circumstantial evil
 dence sufficient to lead to the belief | that the fellow who entered the Bab- cock cottage was Skeete Allen, so the party motored to Pleasant View, in 1 stead of going direct to North Ston- ington, with the idea of picking up the
 trail from there.
 John R. Wilcox, sheriff of Washing
 ton county, Is in charge of the King
 stcn murder case, and is assisted by Deputy Sheriff Charles Bennett of
 Kingston, Town Sergeant Isaac T. Hopkins of Kingnton, and Railroad Agent Pryor. The motive of the mur-
 der was robbery. Oscar and Gustave Olsen, 37 and 35, were railroad section | nStHOe, dIlU WlllaIn tSQOQeS, -cOlOFSQ,
 was known as pocket peddler' sell
 ing liquor at fairs. Sheriff Wilcox i and his men, soon after investigation,
 started out to locate James Morris,
 who commenced work with the Olsens eI last Thursday and lived with them in . the building where the triple murder l took place. He was seen to leave the building Sunday morning about seven
 hours before the murder was discov-
 cred.
 . Morris +1,a srSnac+ is at,o,,+ or ,,5 , his residence is said to be at Bristol.
 He is 5 feet 6 inches in height and
 weighs perhaps 15O pounds. When last
 seen fn Kingston he had small thin
 moustache and a few days growth of
 beard He wore dark gray overcoat, : dark gray. coat, gray sweater and dark l cap.
 All dealers in automobiles are not up to the highest standard Of Veracity, Providence dealer. who brought two
 new cars from New York to Provi- , dence, operating one himself and an assistant driving the other The method was adopted rather than de- lay in transmission by railroad. The } dealer seems to ignore the fact that
 some of the best-built roads connect ] the two cities named, for here is what
 he says:
 From New York to New Haven the | which time had shown no effect on. i From New Haven to New London it was poor. From New London to Wes- terly and to Providence, it was not fit to mention in polite society; mud up
 to the hubs in many places" The | dealer respects that from New Lon- don to Westerly the mud was almost
 up to the hub caps!" As a matter of
 fact this road is concrete for over half
 the distance and macadam the rest. I
 Thomas Mckenzie, Major Arthur N. Nash and D. Everett Hoxie will leave for Hartford this afternoon and at
 tend the banquet at the Garde hotel in the evening, preliminary to the an-
 nua1 convocation of the Grand Lodge
 of Free Masons of Connecticut The gentlemen named are Masons of high degree, members of the grand lodge, and will attend the convocatIon We'd l nesday and Thursday They were in |, itiated into the mysteries of Masonry in Pawcatuck lodge, located in Wes- , terly, but within the Jurisdiction of the grand lodge of Connecticut Frank ] lin lodge and the other Masonic bodies of Westerly are in the Rhode Island ? Jurisdiction.
 The siIver cup offered by the arand
 lodge of Knights of Pythias of Rhode Island to the subordinate lodge, not located in the city of Providence, that
 made the largest gain in membership
 during the year has been awarded to
 Bowen lodge of Westerly. This lodge
 was once one of the strongest in the
 state, but of late years there came a
 lack of interest and consequent dwin-
 ding in membership. A year ago the
 interest revived, many former mem
 bers were reinstated, new candidates admitted, and once again 1t is the ban ner lodge outside of the city of Provi-
 dence. which Is the stronghold of the order in the state.
 Judge Oliver H. Williams and David Franklin StiIlman, the veteran bank clerk, both local experts at chess and representing the Westerly Chess club were in New Haven Saturday and wit messed the championship playing in the International Rice Memorial tour nament. The event was under the au- spices of the Yale Chess association and the New Haven Chess club, and was formally opened with short ad.
 dress by President Hadiey Of Yale } university. It was perhaps the mos, notable gathering Of chess players ever
 in New England.
 T gthar Wilcox end others of the VII.