The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-22
MILF ORD NEWS

[ Cuoncn No. 47. K. of C.. will tender a reception to be given in honor of | its members who saw service in the wOT!G's war which will be held in l connection with a smoker to take |place at Knights Of Columbus hall on | Cc- 9.
 i An automobile owned and driven by 1 W. n. Drews, SS5 Main street, Bridge port, state license No. 75.5S3 collided 1 head-on with another machine, license ! No -3528, on the MiIforl turnpike The driver of ne.tncr machine was i iseriousIy injured. The Drcws ma '"hinc was lclt standing on end at one [ side of the road. Drcws told the West 1 Haven poll l.a that the driver of the other machine gave the name of Him ] nan, 2e3 State street, New Haven. but the license number at Hartford is in the name of 4. II. Petroskey of 211 | Dow street, this city.
 This evening Q delegation repre- senting Franklin Bartlett camp. Sons | of Veterans, will visit the local camp and pass the evening with them. Com mauder R. c. Willard is now busy with the arrangements and wishes to have all the Sons around him on that occasion.
 Among those going from town to ] attend the Sousa concert at New Ha- ven Thursday evening were MT and Mrs. Charles Proctor, Mrs. s. A. Libby land daughter. Dorothy. NIT. and Mrs. Richard Futile and Miss Mabel HoI- loway.
 There was much interest in the Mil ford Town Court Saturday. Edwin A. BelfOrt of Silver Beach, charged with stealing gas from the New Ha- Iven Gas company. involved in a sim liar case two years ago. and recently before the court on the charge of sell Ilng liquor and running a disorderly
 house, was sentenced To 30 dRys in jail land payment of costs.
 M chen Wells, arrested for keeping lohsters in pot without having his name or license number on it. was
 ordered to pay the costs in his case.
 Patrick Dwyer of New Haven. who Ipleaded guilty to breaking and enter ing freight car. was bound over to the Superior court, in bonds of $500. l The following men, charged with purchasing stolen goods. were each fined $25 and costs. They bought the
 goods at so greatly a reduced rate that they gradually became suspicious. and they were finally so implicated. that all pleaded guilty in the court. Cliff
 ford Scott, Victor Swallow. Ernest Latimer, r. Rutland Ambrose Murphy and Andrew Carter.
 Arthur Wells. who was charged with reckless driving. will have his trial on lthe 22nd
 Richard Davis, chargcI with break ling In inc NNnGsT.-1-F,r-+ was bound over to the SuperforSCourt under bonds of S1O0O.
 The room in the basement ce +ba
 Town Hall building that was for a
 LIne occupied as police headaua CTS.
 last evening looked like a whoIesal le ! grocery house. There were boxes of l soap, toilet and laundry, soap DOW
 der canned goods and other things
 In this line, automobile tires and de-
 tachabie rims, electric lamps and fix
 lures, as well as other thinza- alto sether representing some ten thou
 sand dollars worth of property all of
 which was stolen within a compara-
 lively short time from freight cars at Devon, formerly Naugatuck Junc- tion- But with in the past twenty
 four hours all this had been recov- | cred by Chief Maher and men of his 1 force The police while working on the robbery of c. ". Hawes office at ! Devon unearthed clues which led to 1 their finding all of this property and
 to the arrest in Derby yesterday , morning of R- J. Meyers of Lambert l street, New Haven. It is stated that
 the course followed by Meyers was
 to break open freight car as il
 stood on a siding at the junction shove out such goods as looked good to him, after the train had gone on
 hide these goods where they would
 not be discovered, and later cart them away either to storage place or to ; The police not only found where
 the place where he had sold them ! The police not only found where | some of the goods was hidden, but they went into some of the homes al Devon and brought away light fix
 lures and goods. The auto tires were
 found in the sale5room of a dealer al D Devon while lot of the canned stuff was on sale in q store at Myrtle b Beach.
 The proprietor of this store is not
 considered to have known that he l, 1 was getting stolen goods as the sellers f LOid him they had been conducting a store in Bridgeport. were going ou 3 of business and had goods they were e anxious 10 sell and made him an at } | tractive price. But others who had f some of the things that were recover 3 ed are not in so pleasing a condition 3 in police estimation and they will D have a chance to explain their pos |. session in court today.
 s Half a dozen men, three or foul I. who are from Devon- one from Shel- ton and one from Bridgeport were l called to headquarters yesterday fol D having some of the stolen goods 1T
 their possession and the police art
 being warmly congratulated on the . success which the almost continuou: ' work in the past 24 hours has giver
 them and it is hoped that their worh
 in this caca will end the robberie: ' that have been goinS on in the west ' ern part of the town recently. 7 One ton of water may be coloreC l t.-. u gir grafr1 of fndfgO-