Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-27
DANIELSoN AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

Captured late Thursday night. near | the Massachusetts line. after a long
 officers. Canelia Shaki. alias Sherif. was pre<c1ted before Justice Charles {; Johnson in the town of Thompson on l Friday morning and charged with as- | saulting Aifne Shaki with intent to
 kill Probable cause of holding the man was found and in default of
 bonds of s16,000 was taken to the jail l at Brooklyn to await trial at the De- | tober term of the superior court. Omcers wfo, were engaged i'll the | hunt for Shaki and who were pres | ent at his capture said Friday after noon that the prisoner had made a shooting Annie Shakf at North Gros- l venordale last Wednesday evening. Within short time after his arrest the prisoner was brought to the Day of Annie, who identified him as his as- sct;aEt and asked of Shaki. Why did you shoot me ?'
 shakrs response. according to the
 'nders, Tient Tsl Robert fn' W sorry gridseman and Harold Elliott of the state police de- ! partment. Captain J. B. Bulger of the police of this city and Constable Nerri Coderre of North Grosvenordale were the officers that were present when Shaki was captured while he was making his way along a lonely road | in the town of Thompson at a point near the MaSSacnuSeLtS DOrOer, TOT which he was heading.
 People who had seen Shaki skul1 l ing about East Thompson during the early hours of Thursday evening sus- pected that he might be the man for whom the police were searching and were confirmed in their opinion when 1 the fugitive asked someone about get ting train for Boston,
 A telephone message to North Gros venordale got the officers the trail and they 1ocated Shaki after a long and wearyi11g hunt.
 When arrested the ~n1an offered no resistance. although he was in a po sition' to put up real fight. being armed with two fully loaded revolvers. one a U. S. .32. the other a Colt au- and the constable then disarmed him. tomatic of the same calibre. The wea- pons were loaded with steel jacketed
 bullets of which Shaki had a nearly full box as extra supplies.
 Sherif submitted to the arrest at the
 point of Constable Coderre's revolver,
 Later, in going through Shakis pock-
 ets- Captain Bulger found the second
 revolver.
 Tn con versations with shaki during
 Friday officers learned from the man
 that he has not been much given to
 work. He has travelled about a good
 deal making stops of greater or lesser
 duration in Bideeford. Me. Provi-
 dence, Waterbury, Goodyear, New
 York and other cities where there are
 Albanian colonies. His speciality is
 gambling and he has feeced many of
 his countryrnen in crooked games of
 chances When arrested a number of
 dice was found in his pockets.
 Two months ago he worked in North
 Grosvenorda1e for week, gaming
 with his countrymen at night. Then he drifted away on one of his tours and two weeks since came back into this immediate territory. On Septem- Der ?. the officers learned, he pur- cha sed at the store of Chandler and Morse in this city the automatic re- volver taken from him when he was arrested He. signed for the purchase as i'm Charlie. of Goodyear.
 Just what led up to last Wednes- l day evenings shooting affair has not | been definitely learned, but it is be- lieved to have been the outcome of some wranEle over gambling games in ] which the men had previously been in- yolved. Shaki has a bad record. hay k ing once hit a man over the head with d baseball bat and upon another occa- sion drew a knife on a man.
 At the hospital Friday Annie. the