Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-11

I | PIattsbug by Westerly men in train 1 ing with the officers reserve corps is 1 indicated by notification Friday by | Adjutant General Mccain, instructing | the commanding officer of the reserve corps to notify the men of their ap- l pointments to take effect on August 1o. | The men notified from Westerly, to- gether with their appointments. are: To be captain, infantry section of- l dcers' reserve corps-Donald c. Cot: | trell son of Mrs. c. Byron CottreH or | Elm street.
 . To be appointed second lieutenant, infantry section, officers reserve corps HI Russell Burdick of the Fifth com | pany, son of MT. and Mrs. Ed. N. | Burdick of Park avenue.
 Assigned to duty for the regular army as second ieutenant-f4arold Q. 1 Moore, son of MT. and Mrs. George c. Moore of Beach street.
 In the Third District court room Fri day morning, the hearing in the case of State. Thomas E. Brown, complain ant vs. Alice Sargent of Brookline, Mass. a summer resident at Watch Hill was held before Judge Oliver H. Williams Miss Sargent is charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of Cornelius A. Shea, the
 12 year old son of Mir. and Mrs. John
 Shea of 53 Morgan street. who died from injuries sustained in an accident near the entrance to the Misquamicut Golf grounds on the Watch I1iu road, Saturday afternoon, July '. Miss Sar-
 gents car struck young Shea. after he ha delighted from a trolley car. Ex-Judge Mumford made the argu- ment for the defense and Attorney Agard for the state. Judge Williams
 adiudged the defendant probably gull ty and she was bound over to the
 September session of the superior
 was fixed at s2,oo0.
 News was received hero Thursday
 afternoon of the death of Mrs. Eliza
 beth R. Davis. g. Thursday morning
 at o'clock at her home in Nortonville.
 Kansas Mrs. Davis had been i'll for
 some time and recently underwent
 serious oncration at an Atchlson'
 Kansas, hospital. from which she fall
 ed to recover. She was born January
 13 1S44 Mrs. Davis was Eli7aheth R.
 Williams. and January 23. 1888, she
 married Oliver Davis of Westerly, who
 died suddenl7- in March. 1908. while he was spending the winter in Ham
 ,nond. La with Ms. Davis. Mrs. Da-
 wis funeral will be held today at Nor
 tonville.
 Thursday evening at the home Of
 Mrs. E. B. Saunders or Broad street,
 Ashaway, her daughter Miss l. Mil dred Saunders, was united in marrleS with Philip L. Coon Of Milton, Wis. Miss Mildred Taylor sang Ich Hebe dicir, by Grieg, and the bridal party entered IS the bridal chorus from Lohengrin was played by Miss Violet BolIes. The officiating clergyman was Rev. George B. Shaw Tne matron of ed the bride. who was given away by her brother, Dr Howard Saunders. The best man was Harris W. Taylor.
 The theft of iewelry amounting to l, s7, eco from the cottage Of Mrs. William i w Lawrence of Watch Hill occurred {; one week ago last Tuesday but was | kept generally quiet so that the police ! might have every possible opportunity ! of finding the thieves. The CBiy possi- ] ble way that anyone could have enter ! ed the house. the family believes, is ] through screened window which was left open on a st2irw2y on the front i of the house. The Westerly police, with l Sheriff John Wilcox of this county, l are at work on the case
 After search on a slender clue, Sheriff John R. Wilcox. assisted by Deputy Sheriff George F. Phillips, has esta biisI ed the identity of the driver of an automobile which struck and in iured Doc" Robert. colored an em- ploye of the state college at Kingston, when on the road hetween Peace Bale and Kingston late Wednesday evening. After throwing MT. Robert to the side 1f the highway, inturing his back and nHIct1nS cut over lIte St e. the auto 1 mobile was driven away at increased speed. The ma chine was going so 1 fast some distance beyond where the lccident occurred that Lyman Rodman was nearly hit before he could jump 1 nto the bushes at the roadside.
 Sheriff Wilcox says the offender is a Kingston boy 15 years of age. The herif interviewed the boys father, the 1oy not being at home a the time 1 out he can be apprehended when