Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-25
LOOT RECOVERED NEAR WESTERLY
able Silver Stolen From Watch Hill Cottage Found in Swamp Near Pleasant View-Book 222 Years Old Pick ed Up by William A. Wicox-Request Fly Kite Ex- cites Suspcon-Superior Court Hears 1O7 Exceptions From Rulings in February Trial of Rhodes Murder Case Francis Clark Injured

It is evident that at least one of the burglaries committed at Watch the work of a finished burglar who is in the business for gain and who does not get cold feet after the commits sion, of crime and leave the booty hid- den in the woods. especially when the stolen stuff is not over-bu1ky. The silver and plated ware taken from the cottage of Mrs. A. R. Adams, of New ] York, at Watch Hill on the night of August 18th. last, has been recovered and is now in the Westerly police sta- tion in the custody of Chief of Police Thomas E. Brown and awaiting identi- cation by the owner. The list of stol- en articles given the police the day after the theft included eighty three sterling silver table ware. There are seventy three pieces at the police sta tfon answering the description of the missing articles, including those mark ed A, aud the police believe that all that was stolen has been recovered, as the find includes some sterling stl yer articles as described. Here is the list of articles recovered:
 Eleven tea spoons marked A, five soup spoons, six table spoons, twenty four forks. of five designs, eleven but ter knives, four oyster forks, four fish
 forks, ,a two ladies dI,. dr cheese knife: ice spoons and two salad forks; also. a combined cigar clipper and lighter. The stolen articles were found in a swampy section of woods at Sup-up
 Heights. near Pleasant View, Sunday after1 oon, by Arthur O'NelH, who was
 taking a stroll through the woods. He noticed 8 paper wrapped bundle on the ground, among some underbrush. He gave it a gentle kick, heard a jingle and felt of the contents. He was imme- diately satisfied that the bundle con- tained table ware, and he thought of the recent burglaries at Watch Hill. Mir. O'Neill hurried to Westerly and reported the find to Policeman Michael Curtin. and returned to Sup-Up Heights with the officer in an automo- bile. The bundle was brought to the police station and delivered to Chief Brown. First the silver was wrap ped in a towel with a red border and the words Kitchen Cloth in red run ming across the center. Over this was a gingham apron of bluish check, that had the appearance of having been wo-n in connection with kitchen work. A copy of The New York Times of August 20, served as the out side wrapper.
 Under the supposition that the fel- low who robbed from the Adams cot tage was the same who made a more on the previous night, Chief Brown de- tailed Policeman Curtain to make a thorough search of the woods for more boo&S, Monday, but none was found
  men who visit the woods in that sec tion to keep a weather eye out for Bundles of any description, and to note any discovery of recent digging, or in fact anything out of the ordinary, that might lead to the recovery of the rest of the stolen property.
 William A. Wilcox, the West Side real estate man, in the course of hia business in farming sections, has se- a n nd vaY~ "a 1S- cation and although 222 years old is l remarkably well preserved. The title page, which reads as follows, explains 1 the contents: l
 "The Practical Part of the Law, showing the office of an Attorney and l a Guide for Solicitors, in all the l Courts of Westminfter, viz: The | Courts of Chancery. Kings-Bench, the manner of Proceedings in Any Ac- tion, Real Perfona1 or Mkt, from the | Original to the Executive. As, also the | Prac ctice of the Courts of the City of London, Court of Admiralty, Eccle- 1 frafticil Courts, and others. Inferiur Courts in the country.
 "To which is added the exact toll of l fees of all the paid Courts of Weft- as they were declared in the house of commons, with the abstract of the Parchment and Paper Act by Order of the Queen and Council
 Carefully corrected and enlarged by several Practifers of feveral courts and brought down to the year 1895, with a new. table of the Principal Matters.
 "LoT~don: Printed by the Affigns of | Richard and Edwin Atkins, Efquires; for John Ma1thoe, in Vine Court, Middle Temple; adjourning to the Cloyfters, 1885,"
 Major Bourbon A. Babcock, of Paw catuck, now commander at Fort Kearney, Narragansett bay, had vii