Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-25
TWO MEN ON TRIAL
 FOR THEFT OF MONEY


 L. Dachis and Irving M. Feather man, both of Lebanon, were placed on trial on Tuesday morning here in the superior court before Judge William $. Case and jury on the charge of theft of $932.50 from John and Emma M. Madley, husband and wife, of Leb- anon.
 The money, which the two accused l are charged with stealing on June 26, was what they had paid to the Mad leys earlier on that day when they bought the Madley farm. Attorney Arthur M. Brown was counsel for the l accused and State Attorney H. A. Hull was assisted by Attorney Warren B. Burrows
 Mrs. Madley was the first witness l She said that in the house she had | two packages of money which she had saved up. One package contained $S200 done up in cloth bag while the other i contained $500 wrapped up in brown paper These packages, witness stat | ed, she put in a tin trunk with a | cover which had a lock to it. She stated that Dachis went up stairs in company with others while she was l putting the money away. During the | time that Dachis and the others were l up stairs the witness went into another bedroom waiting for them to go down stairs. Later she took the money out 1 wrapped it up in a green coat and put 1 the bundle at the bottom of a clothes basket while she went out to deliver an order with her husband and told her oldest daughter Florence about the money being in the basket Upon her return she took the money out of the
 basket and placed it in brown bag together with $93250 done up in a white paper. This sum had been paid to her and her husband as the bal
 ance coming to her for the sale of the farm. About 7.3O o'clock on the even
 ing of placing the money in the bag
 she discovered the package containing
 the $932.50 had disappeared
 Town Clerk Charles J. Abel of Leb-
 anon was called to the stand and tes-
 tifed to drawing the deed conveyina the property and to having seen
 hundred dollar bills, four ffties, six f fives, and s2.50. Upons objection bS
 Attorney Brown. Judge Case excluded v the line of questioning upon whicf : the state attorney began to examine the witness and MT. Abel was no
 questioned further
 f Florence E. Madley, the 17-year . old daughter of the Madley family e fstestified that on Tuesday afternoon
 June AOI uSE IuUlH6T lOlQ n6T Cu
 money was in a clothes basket Mrs . | Madley went away to visit the neY n place the Madley family had bought n While Mrs. Madley was away Dachis if Molly Dachis and Irving I'eathermal came to the house. At one time whil = they were there. Florence was play - I4g the organ while Molly and Fea 6 therman stood by her side.
 d Frances ,Madley. 1S, a sister o Q Florence, testified that she was in tn II house at the same time and she wa e in the room where her sister wa . playing the organ At that time sh # where the clothes basket with tn
 money in it was and he was standin . oyer the clothes basket
 Joseph B. Blakeslee, justice of tn
 peace in Lebanon. and William r
 Jackson, county detective, followed - the two girls on the stand.
 E Detective Jackson testified to tw $ conversations with Dachis in one ( ,e which Dachis said he presented s US at the Chestnut Hill railroad static y for a ticket to New York which tn e station agent could not change an n trusted him for the ticket to Ne n York This was two or three day after the transaction involving the a. IS legged theft. F'eatherman had als to told the detective about the $50 bi
 Jackson said.
 r. Edward J. Hickey of Hartford, IS federal officer with the naval intell n, gence bureau, testified that he hear h the conservation between Featherma Ib and Jackson about the $50 bill wl1ic
 the station agent could not chang is Deputy Sheriff George H. Stantc re testified to serving the papers in tl Id case and finding that Henry Wake
 the station agent at Chestnut Hi Id is now in the military service. of The state rested at 4 o'clock ar of Attorney A. NJ. Brown took up tl
 defense after a recess of five minut, ts which he asked for to confer with h
 clients.
 Irving M Featherman. one of u
 accused, was the first witness for u IF defense. He was born in Russia ar las lived in this country for fl Is years. He first became acquaintt IT. with Dachis in New York. He test J. fed to the details of the transfer ce the property and the payment of Il ee. money to the Madleys at Town Gle he AbePs office. The witness said of vas the one who paid' the money. ne When the transaction was conclud rs. they ell went back to the Madl' he farm In Featherman's automobi Co where they 1OOh6Q GI lLC SGEd es and counted the chickens. They he rot go to the house. After dinner ed the Cohen place, Featherman went on the Madley place late in the afte he noon to see the milking. but deni pt that he went into the house or W he in the house that afternoon whi All Florence Madley was playing the c Ire gan.
 we He said it was on the Fourth H. July that he first heard the Madle he had lost their money and he was a
 rested about the 12th of July. He te
 tiied to offering the $50 bill to
 station agent Dachis told him os got the bill from his brother. Fe
 tnerman said this was about the rts of July. He denied that he had ey IDS seen again the Madley money att las it had been paid to them.
 State Attorney Hull was just ia ms ing up cross examination of Feathe V man when court adjourned at 4 III III until the next morning at 10 o'clo m m. The following is the jury in -ls case: Frank Brewster, Burrill w. I icy throp, Norwich; Charles II. Benne re- Sterry F. Pierce, Preston; Frank Ion Whiting, Albertus c. Burd;ck, Or ln- wold; Lyle c. Gray, North Stonir ., ton; William Church, Bozrah';; E ehe gene W. Clark, Franklin; Delwin aIl Martin, Sprague; R. R. Barber, Oh Ten Ten F. Johnson, Lisbon.
 -lfy WILL KEEP TRACK
 OF WOOD SUPP ,rk. Henry F. Parker, who has bt
 made local wood supervisor is to hs