Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-06
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| N. k. DlxOn Fire company. was before | Judge Oliver H. Williams fin the Third
 district court Friday. He pleaded 1 guilty to carrying concealed weapon, l a revolver. and was sentenced to six 1 months in the Providence county jail. | Mir. Wheeler told the court that he | was in his 69th year and had never l before been arrested and accused of | clIne, and would not be in his present l predicament if he had not spent l Thursday, and some money in Provi- 1 dence for Jamaica brandy and beer l He said he was intoxicated and bought | the revolver from a fellow in the Providence depot who said he wanted | to get money to pay his fare to Win | chendon, Mass. Before this transac- tion he had written a threatening let ] ter to his boarding mistress in Hope Valley and mailed the same. At the same time he wrote but did not mail a postal card which he showed he in tended suicide. telling his daughter to get his effects from the boarding house and his desire as to disposal of his body.
 He told the court he had the highest regard for his boarding mistress and had assisted her and tried to be kind to her and her little daughter. but there was no infatuation Her huS- band was somewhere in France The mother of the boarding mistress came from Providence and served notice on
 Mir Wheeler to quit, and this grieved
 him, he said.
 It appeared from statements in court
 that MT. Wheeler came from Provi-
 dence, very much intoxicated to the
 boarding house and threa tened the oc-
 cupants. Constable William A Mat
 thews was called and found Mr.
 Wheeler secreted in bushes near the
 house and arrested him. In imposing sentence the judge said to Mir. Wheel
 CT that it would be better for him to go to the state institution for care and examination for his own benefit and for the safety of society
 Mrs. Amelia L. Haiie, who died Fri day morning at her cottage. Highland Lodge. in Ninigret avenue. was
 prominent and longtime summer res ident Of Watch Hill. with home in Springfield, Mass. She was the widow of William H. Halle. former lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and daugh- ter of Ethan s. and Louisa Burns Chapin of Springfield She was mar rIed June l 1861, and leaves 9 daugh- ter Alice. Mrs. Cheney H. CauIkins. and son. Henry Chapin Halle. This is he third death of old time Watch Hill summer residents during the sea son. tin others being Thomas Thacher of New York and George Asa Driggs of Waterbury.
 David Franklin StiIIman, the oldest banker ln Rhode Island. and an au- thoritX on local events. was reminded oy the renewed report of the wreck Of the Metis. in The Bulletin. on the fifth anniversary, of the heroic action of Capt Daniel F. Larlin and others ;fl the work of rescue. At the time of the wreck there was no life saving station a [ Watch Hill. but two boats with vol unteer crews went to the rescue. The venture was q bold one and resulted in the saving Of many lives. All the res cuers were rewarded with special gold medals by act of congress.
 MT. Stiif1nan has a duplicate of this
 medal in bronze, with blank space wherc the name of the man honored appears in the gold medals.
 The medal is more than seven inches in circumference. On the observe side the rescue is represented by men in boat i'll turbulent sea and showing the sinking Metis and the Watch Hin lighthouse. On the reverse side around the edge of the medal reads: "By reso- lution of congress. Feb q. 1873" 4 wreath encloses this inscription: ITO - .--, - for courage and bravery in the saving of lives from tho wreck of the Metis in Long Island sound, Aug. 31. 1872"
 Mrs. Martha Moore Avery, presi- dent of the Catholic Truth Guild of Boston. and David Goidstein, formerly a noted socialist, later a convert to Catholicity. will arrive in Westerly on Sunday afternoon after a tour of tho country from California. covering more than 1900 miles. Their large closed automobile is painted yellow and white, the papal cOlors, with in scriptions on the side in cardinal red. They arc giving q series of open air lectures and Dr. Arthur NJ Free of NIsalia, Col, acts as chairman.
 Mrs. Avery will speak on The Ori- gin of Democracy. and Mir. G0ldstein will deliver A Message to the Atheists. the Jews, the Protestants and the Catholics. They arc co-authors. Of publications arrived at the assaults of radical sects against their church and American institutions.
 The lectures are delivered from the specially constructed automobile. The top of the car is so contrived tha< fr can be raised and serves as a sound ing board.
 Governor Eeeckn1an made the round trip from his home in Newport to his. office in Providence in a naval air plane Thursday. At the start. rising to 3 point about a mile high. circlcd west and flew at rate of seventy miles an hour along the coast to Wes- terly. reversed here, returned to Mar rasansett bay and then strengthened away for the sail to Providence The plane in which the governor made his flight is Of the F-64 type. similar to the NC-4 that crossed the Atlantic but with twenty feet less spread of wings. Witht he governor were Lieu worth, Jr.. and two mechanics.
 Recruits are being enlisted for ser vice in the new six companies of Rhode Island Coast Artillery. national guard. Many returned service men are volunteering their service. It is expected that within a. few days will reach their full quota of men.
 Frederick J. Murray, former captain of the Georgetown University football team, and Of the basketball team a Boston Latin school. has been selected as athletic coach of the Rhode Is1- and State College, at Kingston, to sue ceed Frederick Walker. MT. Murray is native of Dorchester. Mass. and gained athletic prominence in his school days. He graduated from Georgetown in 1915. and coached i teams in Gloucester. He enlisted in i ths aviation service in 1917 and was i recently released from the service.
 Frank V. Blanchard, 6e. was buried | Thursday after requiem mass in St l Patrick's church, Providence. He was ! one of the oldest locomotive engineers 1 in the employ Of the New York. New i Haven and Hartford Railroad com l pany. The bearers were Martin P. i