Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-11
PUTNAM

Reports that Theodore COX, west Woodstock, had been listed from navy sources as deserter were malicious and erroneous, and recent develop ments have brought to light that his being a victim to an unfortunate chain of circumstances gave the gossips their opportunity for spreading falst re- ports, which, fortunately, never reach
 ed any publicity.
 November A Cox a second class
 seaman, left the Wissahdckon bar
 racks, at Camp May. K. |. on 4S-
 hours leave Of absence, during which
 he intended to visft at his home in
 West Woodstock. He stopped over fo..
 a visit with friends at Mt Vernon, N. r. was seized with influenza and be-
 came dangerously i'll. being confined U his room until December f. Soon there after, though still in q very weakened condition, lie reported at his station. made his statement to officers :ll charge. these statements supplemented by a physician's affidavit was eXanl- ined and exoaefated from any charge that he was a deseftsr.
 This information has beer conveyed to war department officials here. Cox, before going into the service, sought frequently Dornission to be reIea scd from the draft that he -slight enlist I1S ss~ill6S 1EOIA d letIHIty GI tAOIOuSlf- bred Americans and his relatives fiaVc said within t few days, i1 resentins the Gesertion story that 1t does fYSt run in the blood of their fs.4f1ily 10 be faitIllesS when the needs of the country call.
 Legal action has been instituted il, l the superior court for Wia.illan coui1 ty over possession for final burial of the body of William E. Wheatle1, formerly of Wauregan Danielson and Providence, who died in the last nam ed city, November 4, ;ffter having been i'll with influenza and pneumo- nia
 Tie body is now buried in the Sa- cred Heart cemetery 1t Wauregat1. where it WIS placed by direction of 1. Mrs, Ellen WheatIey, mother of the deceased. and she has ebtained' through the superior court, at t Sessfoh at which Judge Kellogg presided, tenn porary injunction prohibiting the re- moval Of the body for burial else. Wheatley, Danielson. father of the de. | ceased, will seek to have this tenn l perary injunction dissolved Tie mat 1 ter is to conte up for a hearing in thu l superior .\corlt for Winahafn county I during the January session
 I In papers filed in the case. Mrs. FL I len Wheatlev, mother of William ". | Wheatley sets forth tilat for a pc riod before She death of her son, Will i jam B. WheatIesj. his divorced wife. 1 Mrs Agnes WheAtley. had abandoned him; that she, Mrs Ellen Wheatlev, cared for her son during his last ilt- | ness, up to the time when lie was re- | moved to the Rhode 1sland hospital ! hn ayad fISof lflY H,; act illness he requested his mother, Ii, l ease he died, that his body be buried
 ir the Sacred Heart cemetery at Wah- reGan.
 The papers set forth also that, aft | CT the young mans deatt his body | by order of his mother was taken in charge by & Providence undertaken ana removed from the hospital; that dur i ing the time the body was tt the Prov idence undertakers $. William w 1 Wheatley, father of William B.. ap.
 peared at tilA undertaking rooms and tclaimed the body: that his request fef
 possession of it was deitted and that
 thereafter counsel was called in the l case: that there was a hearing before q probate judge in Providence and
 that the probate court ordert'd that thg
 body be given into possession of the
 mother, who caused it's removal jc Wauregan and arranged for its buria
 in the Saerel Heart cemetery.
 The deceased Mir WhGatIey was { young man about 2s years of age. His ] wife, at the time of his last illness l also was dangerously i'll with infiuen za and pneumonia, so seriously thai a
 times her life was desPai.ed, of. Sft
 was patient in the Rhode island hos pital at the time her husband died ai
 the institution, but was so desperatell
 i'll that none but doctors and nurses were permitted to see her and she waS not told of her husbands t.oatf unti days it occurred. She is left with fou, small children. The claim that Mrs Agnes Wheatley had abandoned hs
 l husband is denied in corr1ectien witl
 the proceedings in the case.
 A Masonic travelling card. issued ts
 Herbert Nelson, of Woodstock, has through a roundabout way, been re-
 turned to his parents in the neighbor l ing town, and it's strange return has l; aroused fears for the safety of tht 1 young man.
 The card was picked up on bat l tlefiel1 in France, found by a French : soldier, by whom it was turned over tt another young American fighter whost home is in Pawtuclzet Eventually | l reached grand lodge headquarters ii