Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-02
PUTNAM

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 Acting as a representative of the Travellers Aid society, Mrs. W. J. Bartlett made public Tuesday after noon the fact that she lad received telegraphic information that relatives of young men who may be taken i'll at Camp Devens will be met at the Aver station by army ambulance and hurried to the cantonment. This service will be rendered to relatives who receive war department telegraIns informing them of the illness of their soldier reS- atives. For people of this county the best time to leave for Aver is on the 1.10 D. m. train out of Putnam. This train is due at Worcester at 2.15 and the train with which it connects is due at Aver at 326. War department telegra1ns announcing a case of illness should be taken along. as they will be recognized as passes by all guards at the cantonment.
 Where number of persons may go out together from Putnam a telegram sent by them to the Travellers Aid representative at the Worcester sta tion will result in arrangements .being made to have ample transportation at the station for them when they arrive at Aver.
 TTISOuGFo CFtInbnaI CnaFSGS were before Judge Kellogg at the opening Of the October term of the superior court here Tuesday morning Prayer at the opening of court was of fered by Rev. George c. s. MacKay pastor of the Baptist church of this city. Charles E. Searls acted in his capacity of state attorney and Charles [. Torrey as public defender No sen uence more severe than six months in jail was imposed on any of the accus ed, this being given Arthur B. Ham lin, formerly a clerk at the Putnam inn.
 Hamlin pleaded guilty to the embez- clement of S335.24 from Earl c. Rogers, proprietor of the Putnam inn, it being charged that the crime was committed on the night of March 21 last
 In reviewing the case for the court MT. Searls said that Hamlin was se- cured for the petition as a clerk at the inn through an employment agency. Hamlin, Mr Searls stated, had been at the inn only about six CT seven days when he took the money and disap- peared, going to Providence in hir- ed automobile. it has since been learn ed, after closing the hotel soon after | midnight. He was on duty alone that iIlSl4I dItu lOUR WIldJ IlUUcg WAS III the safe and in the cash register be- fore his departure. After many weeks he mad been located as a mess1nan on a steamer plying between Porto Rice and New York, and recently he<w ar l rested at Yonkers and brought back l to Putnam, pleading guilty in the city court to the crime charged against him.
 A sketch of Hamlins histogy was | brought out through questions asked l in court of him by Attorney Torrey, acting ss his counsel. Hamlin said | he was born at Calais, Maine, and that he had been a bookkeeper most of his life. He is 52 years of age. Prior l to coming to Putnam he had been | employed by an automobile company at Buffalo. He had previous experience as a hotel cleEk.
 Hanlin said: T must have been crazy when I took the money; it was all due to a woman, who wrote me and asked me to get it and come with her | to set up a home. took the money and went to her and gave the money into her possession. Then she told me l could go to lN-l I was practically on the bum then, so shipped as a messman on a steamer bound for France. Later I transferred to anoth- CT boat on the Porto Rico route''
 Hamlin offered to make restitution if permitted to go under a suspended sentence or on probation, saying that s100 was due him for service he had rendered on the ships.
 Mir. Searls said that he did not wish to be vindictive, but felt that some punishment should be inflicted or Hamlin, who, as an intelligent man 1 was more responsible for what he haG done than would some poor unfortunate of lower order of society Hamlir knew better, Mfr. Searls said, and he came to Putnam to accept a position of trust. Nevertheless he stole the money and cleared out. and it did no appear from his subsequent actions that his conscience troubled him, fol he made no effort to return and ad just the difficulty in which he found
 himself, Further he went away witt a dissolute woman, showing mora
 weakness in this respect. Mr. Searl; l recommended a sentence of six month!
 in jail and this was imposed by th' court.
 George Reeeher, 22, Wiilimantic
 pleaded guilty to a charge of assaui
 on minor female Sarah L. Knapp
 15, at Willimantic. May 1S. Tn his be
 half it was stated that the young wo
 man had been known as soldier
 and sailors girP' and that her repu
 tation had not been of the best; furth
 CT, MT. Torrey told the court, thu
 young woman appeared to be mucl older than she really was. Because 0
 these things Mir. Torrey claimed
 clemency for Beecher, who is in tn
 draft Judge Kellogg ordered him com
 nftted to the state reformatory a
 Cheshire.
 Nathan Weisineer, Moesup, pIeade,
 not guilty to a charge of bulgary an,
 theft. His case will be tried lated
 Weisinger is accused of breaking int
 the place of business of W. H. Hay
 ward in Moosup on the night of Jun
 IA. between 1 and 3 a. m., and takinj
 automobile tires, tubes and other ar
 ticles oti1e value of s512.
 Pleading guilty to a charge of non
 support. Frank Brodeur of this cit
 was sentenced to serve six months il
 jail, but the execution of the sentenc was suspended upon his agreement t