Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-28
DANIELS0N AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

PUTNAM
 Death claimed one man and another was seriously injured at 8 o'clock Sat urday morning when a great derrick tcppled over at the plant of the Merse- Nightingale company. near Providence street, crushing the men. Herbext M. Shaw. 40. of East Putnam. was in stantIy killed and Bernard Clancy, 30, of 1e9 Main street. was badly injured. Clancy suffered a badly fractured arm and possibly severe internal injuries. He was removed to the Day Kimball hospital Shaw's body was practically crushed and his leg almost severed when the great haisting apparatus fell on him. The body was removed to the rooms of a local undertRkeF.
 The force of men at work on the job of making ready for the erection of a new power house for the Morse Nightingale company had been at eident happened. The snapping of a. heavy steel cable which was anchored in the mill building caused the derrick shaft, nearly TO feet high, to sway and went up as the force of men in the danger zone started to run for their lives. Shaw and Clancy got into d. rect line of danger and though the great derrick teppled quite slowly, it afterwards was said, they did not seem able to save themselves and were struck as the derrick crashed into the rocks on the riverbank The derrick was in use at the time it fell.
 Shaw and Clancy were employed by the H. Wales Lines company of Meri- den, which has charge of the work be- ing done. Shaw leaves his wife and four children.
 In these arid days of prohibition it does not seem safe to take drink of anything not passed upon and thor oughly censored as to its intoxicating qualities.
 AdoIph Bayart, a native of France, who has been two years in Uncle Sams army, and who was twice wounded while fighting with the A. E. r. over there, and Louis Vandersproul, a Belgian. for many years resident of this counrty and claiming Phiiadel- phia as his home. were before Judge M. H. Geissler in the city court Satur- day morning.
 Bayart and Vandersproul have been visiting mutual friends in Lawrence. They left that city Friday evening, Bayart en route te Army Base hospi- tai No. at Railway, x. J.. Wander sproui for his home in Philadelphia. They admitted being joyed up a bit when starting out on their journey but not evermuch so. and got along very nicely until the conductor on the southbound State of Maine express, en route from Worcester to New York, asked them for their tickets.
 Now, Bayart and Vandersprou4 set up, they had two perfectly Seod tickets to take them to their destination when them could not locate the said tickets when that conductor insisted upon. seeing them, somewhere between Wor- cester and Putnam. which was the third leg of their journey.
 The conductor was an unsympa- +'-N+i'' -'er~np and had them removed from the train when 1t reached this .lts si. .4lo small hours of Saturday and they were taken into custody by the police and locked up at the police station.
 Saturday morning the men were charged with disorderly conduct and attempting to evade paying fare on the train In the meantime Wander spronl had made great discovery. l He had found Ea yarts ticket in his | shoe and also train l check for his own ticket. probably is sued to him by the conductor on the l from Boston to Worcester.
 There being no evidence offered that l the men were guilty of the charges | filed against them. Judge Geissler or lered the men discharged from cus l tody. and Bayart and VandersprouI | of glee that approached the 1 l-la-Aa state of happiness.
 Then the thought seemed to occur l -o them that they were both dead 1
  over the misfortune that had befailen l hem. Vandersproul even could draw | 10 consolation from his cherished vio- | in, which he had in bag amid a set ing of string beans. which he was i ,akipg to his dear wife down in Phi1ly |
 Both Bayart and Vandersproui were 1 intelligent men. Bayart has not yet | recovered from two severe wounds, in | lighting as an American soldier in the var.
 Nearly half a hundred children gath red at the Day Kimball hospital Sat lrday morning to attend a clinic st which operations for the removal of orMed by Dr. Harold Foster of New York. Physicians. nurses. parents and 'atients were present in such numbers $ to indicate to any casual observer vho might be passing that there was omething big going on at the insti- ution. The children that came for perations were tive of Put am, Danielson and a number of other owns in this vicinity.
 Friends here of Charles X. Shaw, ow of Pawtucket. have been watch ng with interest the past week his .ongwood, where the New England ection games of the national tennis ornament were being run off. Sat rday's papers told of Shaw's victory
 
 cores being 2-s. e-4. 7-5, 6-2. Tn this ourth round of play. he having de- sated three other players during the eek, Shaw put himself in line for the emi- finals. Victory in the finals at .ongwood would place him in line to e a contestant in the national match s. MT. Shaw is well known in this city, hich was his home for years while he as associated with what is now the [. K. H. Silk company. He is one of , le very best players in Rhode Island i nd was the premier player of this , lcinity while living in Putnam. The summer sessions being held on | ve days of the week at the Israel utnam school are proving very pop lar. Principal Hammond said Sat- -day morning that the attendance Is | 2 veraging about 70. and the children T und from time to time in going t bout the building that some of the '