Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-27
PUTNAM

 here to face an allegation of abscond- l ing from Putnam, on April '21, of this year. with $S26 of the hotels money. Hamlin had been employed at the inn only a week when he disappeared, taking with him all the money that was in the safe that night. He was on duty until midnight. It has since been learned that after he went off duty he was taken to Providence by a driver from .. local garage and though every effort was made to locate him after the money loss was discovered, on the following morning. he could not be found and undoubtedly made his way out of Providence within short time after arriving there.
 Hamlin came here through the rec ommendation of a Boston concern. Since he has been away search has been quietly going on for him in va rious parts of the country, and it was stated on Monday that he eventually was located and his arrest brought about through letters which he had been writing to @ young woman who is doing Red Cross work in ;t distant | city and who, evidently he had gotten in communication with through the medium of some publication carrying marriage correspondence notices.
 It is expected that Hamlin will be 1 brought to Putnam in the near future.
 The body of Mrs. Paul DufeauIt, 70, was found in the river, near d cove. in l the brush section in the rear of the Ballou Mills Monday morning. Sui l eide was the verdict of the officials who investigated the case Mrs. Du- feault left her home on Battery street some time during Sunday right, it was learned during Monday, and pro i +O Io51y was found, going by way of Smith street. trough which thoroughfare she was seen Ihssing about n o'clock l Sunday night it was reported Mon | day by residents of that street.
 1 Alberick Dufaault, 34. a son of the | deceased. was questioned at length on Monday by Captain Ryan, relative to l the circumstances surrounding Mrs. Defeault committing suicide. Captain Ryan stated that Dufeault had stated to him that he had a little disa- greement with his mother on Sunday l afternoon, but though he did not recall | exactly what it was all about he did not consider it of serious nature. When he had retired for the night, at about II o'clock he believed that his mother was still sitting out on the doorsteps. where he had last seen her, at about o'clock.
 Monday morning at o'clock, when he arose, he found that his mothers room had not been occupied during the night nor vas she about the house. He started at once for a relatives, to
 inquire if she had spent the night
 there but did not inquire about the neighborhood for her. After he learn
 ed that she had not been to the rela-
 tive's he went along the river bank
 in the north end of the city to pick
 wild cherries and while so engaged
 came upon the body of his mother
 in the river.
 He came back to the Providence
 street section and made the facts known and the body of Mrs. Dufeault was removed by Narcisse Faille. Du-
 feault is to be questioned by Coroner
 Arthur G. Bill of Danielson relative tc all the circumstances surrounding the
 case, which is accepted as one of sui
 eide. Mrs. Dufeault was a native ot 1 Canada She had lived in Putnam fo1 , a long time.
 A motor trip across the continent from Los Angeles. has been pleasantly negotiated by F. o. Jean. who is wis : iting with relatives in the town o Pomfret. While in Putnam Monday s afternoon MT. Jean stated that there
 is nothiSc at all extraordinary abou a run across the United States il
 these days of good roads and gooC f cars-just a case of keep feeding thu gas to the engine and letting the ca l roll along. From Los Angeles to Pom
 fret MT Jean covered just an even B. r 800 miles. He punctured two tires o1 l the trip and that constituted his en
 tire car trouble for the journey. MT 1 Jean says that his party, including il l | his car, his wife and two children
 slept every night in a hotel and wer ;. l never on the road later than D. m s He made the trip in a little less thai :. three weeks and on the majority o t days did not drive over 159 miles a though on the last day his mileag
 was 236, and it averaged more tha1 s 150 day east of Chicago.
 $ There is no real obstacle to the en g ioyment of a transcontinental moto
 trip. MT Jean says. The idea tha t there are 100-mile desert stretche
 without opportunity to get gas or O II or water is all bosh. There are garag $ es everywhere, he states, and plent
 of gas, which sometimes costs nor a than one pays in the east. At on
 western station Mir Jean paid l. cents a gallon but that was only a = incident
 In a few days Mir Jean is goin lS DdCk, 1OllOWlnS the CdDld T z u all, tIl e he says he does not expect to have l. surmount anything more difficult q. the way of travel than he did comin J. east, and that was easy going. et Chief Boursier. of the fire depari le nent, said Monday afternoon that
 has a promise Of the manufacturer n that they will get the big auto chen III ical truck back here this week Tn l. has been promised several times. tE A' chief says, but delays have rrevente the return of the truck. which is badl 2l needed. If it had been here Sunda l. T., it could have been used to advantas .tf ,.f in making the run to Thompso JI ,I where members of the local fire de y y in one of the at present unoccupie 0l cottages at the Howe Marot schoc ', which is closed for the summer. IT y, y, cottage was quite badly damage SC The origin of the fire is not known. ay Questionnaires were being mailed C CT Monday to the 37 young men who ha1
 become 21 years of age siT<a June
 last, and who registered or Saturda = The men will have five days after the
 receive the forms to fill them out ar
 return them to the local board. IT
 new registrants then will be class
 fled and almost in1Tn ediately thereaft
 called for their physical examination
 Their order numbers and registratiC
 numbers will be assigned in Washinj A~ ton and they will go at the foot of Il lgg 1918 class of resistrants and will
 called in that order
 Narcissc Leclair, 75, one of the w
 known Canadian residents of Putnal
 died at his home here Sunday. He h; s. been i'll but two days with acute il ! digestion. MT. Leclair had lived
 Putnam for long period of years al