The Press., 1916-09-07

Judge Howard J. Curtis of Hartford on the bench in place of Judge Joel H. Reed, as the latter goes to Putnam,
 exchanging assignments. There will
 be short calendar session and assign
 ments of cases on Tuesday. The
 following are the criminal cases:
 State against William Baldwin, assault
 with intent to kill; state against
 Israel Lioker, breach of peace; state
 against Joseph F. Schorfman, non-
 support of wife; state against William
 Miller and others, taxation of costs. MANSFIELD.
 Theodore F. Simonls, who for the
 past thirty five years made his home
 in Gurleyville, died Sunday night at
 the home of Henry A Newman,
 where he boarded Heart disease,
 from which he had been suffering for
 some time, was the cause of death. MT. Simonds was a native of Scitco,
 born in 1851. He leaves no near
 relatives The funeral services were
 held at the Methodist church in lGurleyville Tuesday afternoon at o'clock and were conducted by Rev.
 J. B. Aokley. Burial was in the
 Gurleyville cemetery.
 About noon Sunday fire was dis covered in barn owned by Wesley WhitOn of Willimantic and located
 in Mansfield, opposite the Willimautio pumping station. The fire had started and in which there were about two tons of hay. The cause of the fire was unknown. Superintendent George H. Allen of the Willimantic pumping station and other neighhors formed
 bucket brigade and while they could not save the barn they saved the house nearby which caught fire twice, On bOth octaSjouS the fire on the house was put out by buckets of water. The loss iS about S40O, covered by in- >uvSucS,
 The twenty sixth annual reuuuu of the StnrrS family was hell last Thurs. day st the home ot Lewellyn Storrs, Spring HIl There were about 100 present, all being descendants of Samuel StOrrS, l64O.lTI9, who moved tO Mansfield from BarnStable, Mass, in l692, and whose grave is in Maus- field Center cemetery on land which is part of his original farm here. His monument, which was erected a few years ago hy Charles Storrs, was covered with floral decorations. The | guests assembled on the lawn and a | fine clambake dinner was served under ] the direction of the host Officers | were elected as follows: President, l Robert $ Storrs of Cheshire; vice. president, F. c. Bissell of Hartford; ; secretary and treasurer, Miss Abbie o. Storrs of Mansfield The next meet ing will be held in Cheshire. A mem- her of the Storrs family gave to the state the property which formed the | nucleus of the present Connecticut agricultural college, formerly known as the Storrs agricultural college.
 Mansfield Center.
 Members of the Speotor family, residents of Windham and the Shapiro family, who live in Mansfield, were before Justice of the Peace George H. Allen of Mansfield, Monday afternoon, on account of a TOW said to have taken place in the yard of the Shapiro home Sunday afternoon, Aug. 20. 1 There was something doing" during the two and a half hours the stories were told by the principals and the pleas made by the respective Attorney Frank H. Foss for the Spector's and | Patrick J. Danahey for the Shapiro's. | The trouble dates back some few weeks ago. Sam SpectOr and David Shapiro | were partners in the junk and rag | business and they decided to dissolve | partnership They could not agree, | and both secured an arbitration con- mittee of five men to do the work. | The division was made apparently | satisfactory to both partners There remained about S5 worth of junk in 1 the home of Shapiro, and on Sunday, Aug. 20, Speetor and his son paid a visit to the Shapiro home to get their share of the junk. Then the trouble began in earnest, with the result that there was TOW, iD which all hands took part. The elder Spector had as evidence a cut over one of his eyes, and Mrs. Shapiro claimed that the elder Spector knocked her down and beat her. Both injured persons sought the aid of the law, as both were of the opinion that they were the aggrieved parties. Complaints were made to Grand Juror Albert James and made out for the arrests of MT. and Mrs. David Shapiro and Sam Spector and son. The charges were assault and breach of the peace. The were placed in the hands of | A. F. Roswell of Mansfield and were served last Friday. The case was to have been heard Saturday, but was postponed until Monday afternoon The court had quite time in trying to find out the guilty parties, and after hearing the testimonies of all hands the charge of assault by Sam Spector on Mrs. Shapiro and the assault of David Shapiro on Sam Speotor was nolled and both were fined for breach of the peace Shapiro testified that he was not present when the Speotor's arrived and assaulted his wife. Shapiro was fined Sl and costs, amounting to $1O.61. Sam Spector was fined $1 and costs, to 80 60. Both settled. According to people who were at the court it was the liveliest one held during the long service of Justice