The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-04
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1 she had reached a condition that
 made necessary transfusion of blood, in order to proIong her life. Mrs. McMahon gave an ounce of blood for her sister. The operation l took hardly a quarter of an hour.
 Wealth of Greenwich
 ss The assessors valuation of taxable pro perty in the town of Greenwich, is | $40, ,943,124. Exemptions were made this year amounting to $55,T0O; leav- ling a grand total of $4o.897,421l for 1915, as against $39, ,481, 15Ss for 1914,
 an increase of $1, ,416, ,266. This in crease is due largely to highway i'm l proveTnent and sales of property dur | ing the past year, which in many in stances raised the valuation of ad- l joining estates. Because of the new | law which went into effect last year, whereby owners of bonds or other | securities could file tax lists with
 State Treasurer, and pay 4-min tax, I instead of a 13.1 mill tax as re- 1 quired by the town, the latter lost
 about, s 1, 800, 900 this year. The mum 1 Der Of lists filed this year was 8 sS64, of which 8, 80 were resid entss and 7S4
 nen-resfdents' lists, aE increase pr 3 % over that of last year. An increased vaIation was placed upon 5S3s pieces of Property. Edmund c. Conyerse, or 1 Convers Manor Farm, heads; the list 1 as~ the largest taxpayer. his assess
 nent being $9O2, 500. Among the other large assessments are E. e.
 Ranedfet. Fss,,3s ct ? s4ss,42o; Elizabeth Mil bank Anderson, $558,110; Percy A
 RockefeIler, $367,400; Percy A. IsRockefeller and William G. 2ocke- feiler, Sz27,70O; William G. Rocke- feIler, s363. .330; Harriet F. sGTeenway. l $22O, 50 o T Greenwich Country Club, l s20S, eO0;a Greenwich Water Go, $3 01,- l5Oo: Louisa w. Havemeyer, $206, ,682:.
 Ewin T. Holmes, $195SO3oi Charles A
 Moore estate, $272,200: Edgar F.
 Marston. $1ee.s5o;< Edith M-$.RheIps iStokes, $146, ,1s0; J.. Kennedy Tod
 s383,460: R. Jay Walsh, $1S2, 70O-i
 she Claims Hodgett.
 e1airnang that she is the lawfully welded wife of Thomas Hodgett,
 whose marriage in New York, Jan. 2s, to Miss Emma Marion Cox, has been lannounced by. Miss Cox's father,
 woman who has been known in New Canaan for five years as the wife
 of Hodgett, was in Stamford Tuesday I Conferring with Miss Cox's parents.
 She said her maiden name was Emily Johnston and that she was 25 years old. She showed a wedding ring en- I grayed with her initials and Hodgett's, | and cladIned they were married in Stamford, on June 1T, 1911. No record | of the marriage could be found in the Town Clerks office here, and, if the story told by the woman is true, she was apparently the victim of asz fake l marriage. She said that she had giv- Ien Hodgett practically all of the money she earned since then. 1T knew l Tom Hodgett in Ireland, = said the wo- man who claims she is his real wife. i ''He lived in Dungannon, County Ty-
 rone about four miles from my home,
 which was in Cohannon. We came to
 this country together, landing on Alp | Til 16 1911. My brother, James John ston, who is married to Fzodgett's sis ter; his wife and Hodgett's brother.
 James, were in our party. We went to | New Canaan, and lived there with my brother James until early in June, 1911, when obtained a place as laun-
 dress on Strawberry Hill, Stamford. I One day. Tom came to the house with | a man AEho, he said would marry us.
 We were married in the laundry, with
 another 1aundress, named Teresa, as witness. Tom and went to house
 keeping, in New Canaan. We re-
 nained there until May, 1912. Tom
 said he was not making money enough 1 to keep the house, so we broke up 1 housekeeping, and went to New York and took a position as waitress We
 We're known man and wife in New iCanaan, and a daughter, now about l three years old, was born to us there. think have given Tom as much as
 Christmas, he asked me for money,
 and I gave him $40o. He knew that I
 had $7Oo in the bank, most of it money
 my mother sent me. Saturday, he called me bp phone, and told me he
 was in trouble. He asked me to let
 him have the $700 to get him out of the trouble. He refused to tell me the na
 ture of his trouble and would not let him have the money
 Asks Damages of s. 900.
 The action of William T. Manion of Danbury against the Commercial Go.
 was taken up for trial in the superior court at Hartford, Wednesday after noon. The action was for damages of $3, 900. Manion alleged that on July A.
 1914, he was waiting for a trolley car. The car stopped and as he was at tempting to board it, he declares it was started through the alleged neg1f- gence of the men in charge of the car and that he was thrown to the ground and suffered a fracture of the right