Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-04

| Kingsley or Westerly has commenced
 the inquest into the death of Benjamin
 Courtland Bentley. who died last week i and who was assaulted at The Elm l cottage at Narragansett at Eastertime. 1 MT. Bentley's eyes Were blackened and ] l ne received cut on his cheek While I on the return trip to Westerly Mir.
 Bentley asked the two men who were1
 with him to keep the assault a secret, ] II for the sake of his mother and his
 wife, and he would tell them he was |
 injured in an automobile accident. Up
 to that time there had been no such l | accident, but they had not proceeded
 far when touring car struck and !
 disabled the Bentley car. The two men
 did comply with Mir. Bentley's request. 1 The row at The Elm started when Joseph Girard, giant in stature, with
 out provocation, called Mir. Martin the vllest of names, and Martin resented and knocked Girard down Mir. Bent ley was assaulted when in front of The Elm and near the automobile. Neither MT. Flynn nor Mr. Martin witnessed the assault, but MT Bentley said he was attacked by two men. He was far
 from being unconscious. as he planned ! the story he was to tell his mother and hls wife, and did not go to his Shore road home for day or two afterward, j but remained near his place of busi- ness in Westerly. MI lIc uedlI CeTlluCdCe signed Dy Dr, a Payne specifies that death was due to I hemorrhage of the brain, following in juries." When this certificate was S signed the injuries were attributed to 2 the automobile story. If the coroner ] finds that death was due to the assault g at Narragansett Pier. an autopsy will 3 probably be performed.
 Chief of Police Smith of Narragan sett has started investigation to ascer- < tain just what happened on Easter a Sunday night at The Elm cottage. The chief was asked: Now that official action has been taken by Attorney General Rice toward holding an in quest, have you taken any action ! toward investigating?
 Not yet replied Chief Smith. What excuse has Patrolman Brown ing made for not making an official V report of the assault that is said to have taken place at the Elms?" He did make an official report. He said he had been called in to quiet a disturbance"
 Do you know where Patrolman Browning was while the quarrel in the H Films was takin place?"
 He was outside. He said that when A he entered the Films the men were at- # tracted by his uniform and that either S one of the Westerly men or Mir Ryder 8 asked him to step outside. The patrol & man did so and when he returned VI everything seemed to have quieted & down."
 Tn whose name was the Films li- & censed at that timer
 The Elm Cottage corpora tiou. think there are three or four men in 5s it."
 # Did Patrolman Browning report # that the fight on Easter Sunday night |F took place in the barroom ?" 8 He did not say where the disturb @ ance took place."
 \ Does the hotel license held by the S Elm Cottage corporation permit it to open the barroom on Sundays?" q No. It merely permits them to % serve drinks with meals"
 % Have you done anything toward & ascertaining whether the barroom at N the Films was open on that night?" NO. But I am going to find out I T will start out and find out just what J did take place there"
 Coroner Kingsley took the testimony @ of pr. Payne Tuesday afternoon and
 the testimony of Drs. Rogers and E Smith, specialists, who attended MT. 1 Bentley, will be taken in Providence. s Should the coroner find. from the med " lcal mems sworn statements, that Mir = Bentley died from injuries inflicted
 upon him. the body will be exhumed ss and and autopsy held to determine the
 character of the injuries.
 l. The Rhode Island Boy Scouts will ,d mobilize in Providence Saturday af- r ternoon and. with all expenses paid A from the state campaign expense fund
 donated by man interested in scout i'd work the Westerly troops will be there V Tn full force. A demonstration is be- T. ing planned to eclipse all previous
 rallies in the history of Boy Scouts ir pr the state, as never before has attempt Id been made to assemble all the scouts
 at one point.
 " At 2.45 the scouts will assemble 1T es the rear of Union station, pass in re- r. view before Mayor Gainer and city anc nt university. Patriotic exercises anc ch speaking will take place on Lincolr
 field.
 hl The latest transfers of real estat, @ recorded in the office of Town Clerl .. Everett E. Whipple follow: William E a. Steadman to Gertrude $. Fowler lot a o Pleasant View; Angela NJ Guarino tt 1I Angelo Sposato ct uX.. three lots il 55il Columbus park; Angela NJ. Guarino t, 4t Natale Parrone ct ux. lot in Columbus .e park; Angela M. Guarino to Antonio 1v Sposato ct ux.. lot in Columbus park " k. Howard Clark to Lorrinia B. Hoxie :, lot off Crescent street; Josephine F "a Pinardi to Johanna Morenzoni, hous n Il" and lot in Granite street: Howard E Il Thorp to Edith H. Pendleton. hous
 and lot at Potter Hill; Albert G. Bar 1I Der to Joseph Mosena. 50 acres witt ts ] improvements at Bradford; Charles E ,.5 sherman to Esther F. Sherman, hous iU and lot at Watch Hill; Benjamin r
 Cranda1l to Christopher H. von Claim
 lot at Pleasant View; Guieseppe Coz
 zolina ct ux. house and lot in Eas
 avenue; Annie J. Murphy to An re O'Brien. house and lot in Schoo
 street; Silas T. Nye ct ux. to Annie H en Broadfoot ct al. house and lot il ts, Highland avenue; Interstate Ston
 company to J. W. Bishop company ng four tracts of land in east part of tn IL town; Henry P. Walton to Charles (
 Clark, house and land on Post road. ed In the same period there were re nd corded four mortgages. aggregatin; rs. S9,500; two leases, one chattel mort in gage, two releases of mortgages am
 three attachments.
 Ill Judge Edward M. Burke held nro od bate court session Tuesday afternoon ot In the intestate estate of Beniami ar Courtland Bentley, who died May 2 o' in Westerly, on petition of his widow a Blanche F., and his mother, Henriett 'e Bentley, Cleveland Carpenter c ,o Charlestown and John c. Bentley e n-r Elizabeth, \. J., were appointed ad A9 ministrators of the estate Bond SIP. oa 900. Eugene B. Pendleton was ap ~ pointed appraiser.
 The final account of Judge Natha