Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-11
WESTERLY

an automobile by Police Sergeant Fer gslson, Tuesday night, must answer to the charge of hootleggtng. or furnish ing intoxicating liquor to soldiers, in uniform, at a. session of the United States. district court ip Providence. Deputy United States Marshal Car roll escorted Adams and 0'Donnell |. from Westerly to Providence Adams was operator of the car and he is ac- cused by O'DonnelI striker with making it a business to sell liquor to Camp Deyens soldiers in connection with his jitney business. Adams claims that it was O'Donneu who served the soldiers, and he was only hired to take | the party from Lowell to New York i city, or to Camp Dix. Sergeant Fer l guson found three bottles of booze in the car and several elnptied bottles. | This is the first arrest for bootlegging 1 in Westerly. The soldiers assert that | l O'Donnell who is minus one arm. has
 been doing a profitable business in the | booze line with soldiers at Camp Dew 1 ems as his customers The soldiers | 1 say they gave up money for liquor at | | Lawrence, Lowell and Boston and that l 1 Adams and O'Donnell got it for them | The soldiers, Emmet C. Coptage | and Alex PepepslIi, are members of | I l. Company. Forty Second Infantry, | and admit they are away from Camp | | Devens, absent without leave, and are | l des;rous of getting back in time to | 1 escape being classed as deserters. | They say they had plenty of money, |
 which thEy had won at cards, and aft | CT drinking freely of liquor decided to
 take joy ride, and one of the chaps
 said: We sure had hell of time l until we got to Westerly, and we're l willing to take our medicine when we
 get hack to camp" Police Chief
 
 commander of the detention of the l men in Westerly. and Is awaiting or ders. for their disposition. If the men
 are not wanted hv the military author ities they will be arraigned in the
 Third district court on the charge of 1 intoxication, and, upon payment of
 the usual small fine, will be releas-
 ed
 The body of Ira A. Snyder, son of.
 MT. and Mrs. William Shy der of Lin
 coin avenue, arrived from Port Chest
 CT, N. Y, Thursday morning MT.
 Snyder was called to limited service 1 under the selective service law We'd
 nesday of last week, leaving New
 London on that day for Fort Slocum,
 N. Y. The day following he sent pos
 tai cards to his father and sister, and
 the next day, Friday, official notice was received that the young man was dead from pneumonia. The delay in sending the hody was due to the many deaths that preceded his. The funeral will be held this afternoon,
 with services in the chapel at River
 Bend.
 There is need for reform in Wester- | ly in the methods of feeding prisoners t in the police station, the present plan being antiquated and at times, ex- ) pensive to the police officers who hap r pens to be on day duty when there are r prisoners awaiting trial. There are cases where prisoners are held for
 several days and sometimes weeks and g their feed is supplied and very often r paid for from the private funds of r the officers. The officers are allowed
 SI10 for each arrest made to be paid
 over to the town treasurer at the end of each quarter when the payments 7 to the officers are made. provided there , be a balance which is rarely the case < nowadays. The money received for 7 7 | these arrests is used for the payment i, Of feed for prisoners, and when that q is not adequate the officers are re- V quested to pay the balance, that is the f officers who are on the day trick when x prisoners happen to be held There is f of prisoners in the, police station, and 1t is about time Appropriation was r made. and the officers relieved of pay f ing an expense that ought to be borne 4 by the town. In the nearest city to
 Westerly the police officers receive S25
 more month than do the Westerly
 police. and their salary, every cent of y it, belongs to them for their personal Il use, and the city makes regular ap- $ propriation for the maintenance of
 the station house. When prisoners are
 fed the feeding is not at the expense
 of the police officers who arc assign
 ed to day duty. as is the case in West t erly.
 l. Local Laconics.
 The proposed Victory ( Columbus Q Day parade. which was to have beer u held Sunday in Providence, mas beer } abandoned by the State Liberty Loar
 committee, a the request of the state m board of health. The present epidemic 'i of influenza is the direct cause for thu ', action taken.
 Il Joseph Quaratello. 45 Pierce street Il died of pneumonia Wednesday night
 Grace A. Barber, of East Greenwich
 has received from the surgeon genera u+ of the army, appointment as recon D. struction aide (physiotherapy), anC ,iA has been assigned to duty at a bas s' hospital overseas. She is the daugh n ter of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Barber. of The Rhode Island State College, a D Kingston, opened on Thursday a II planned, no farther orders to defer tn r+ indictment of students into the Stu ,s dents Army Training Corps. on ac ., count of influenza epidemic havin ~, been received.
 ,o John J. Dunn, of Westerly secre s tary of the Rhode Island State Boar | Of Agriculture. states that based ol so reports received the apple crop of tn 35 state will amount to 75. 900 barrels 0 ~ so per cent. of last years crop, and 8
 per cent. of 1916. It is figured tha
 the producer will receive s5.20 bar
 rel for the apples and they will cos
 the consumer 8 a barrel
 ill Harry Goldberg, 25 son of Mr an
 Mrs. Pincus Goldberg. of Canal stree n- died Wednesday night of pneumoni CT in Waltham. Mass, where he was tn Is manager of shoe store. MT. Gold elk berg was popular with his many ac
 quaGntances here. He was an exper O. swimmer, and on account of a resem C. biance. was referred to by his friend ng as Buster Elionsky, 2d''
 Many friends attended the funera . of Edward Flint. held Thursday Tn - requiem mass in St. MichaeTs churc .u was sung by Rev. Walter J Lydd, Burial was in St. MichaePs cemeterl The bearers were Joseph Herbert, Al fcnse Dubuc, William Brennan an \ William Kellar.s
 Glenville W. Phillips of New Lon
 don was in Westerly Thursday
 John W. Hogan, superintendent {
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