Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-10
Norwich Bulletin WiIIirantic Office, B Church St. Telephone fo5.

Although it has not been officially | announced or confirmed by the gen. eral committee of the Victory Liberty l loan campaign in the town of Wind ham that it's quota of s4O3, 900 has 1 been subscribed, nevertheless the amount of subscriptions which liter ally poured into the local banks all | day Friday would seem to indicate that fact. Among the notable sub scriptions reported and which in fact is the largest single subscription re- celved during the campaign was that of $1oo.000 from the American Thread Company, which goes to the credit of inc town of Windhan1, and which was announced Friday afternoon by Chair man H. c. Lathrop of the general conn., mittee. This subscription Will give Joy to every citizen and enthusiastic praise yeas given M. X. Lynch for eb- taining Windham's share of the sub- scriptions made by local concerns whose banking bushes is conducted in New York. Mir. Lynch went to New York in behalf of the general commit tee Tor this purpose and the results obtained speak well for his efforts The employees of the American Thread Company have already subscribed over sSo.o0o to the Victory loan and when the connpany's subscription of $Iod,0eO was announced, those in charge of the campaign at the plant took off their coats and went to work with firm resolve not give up can wasting until the employees had match ed the subscription of the company. The same enthusiasm was shown by the employees and the canvasers ex- pressed the opinion that the desired amount would be subscribed. Both Windham Center and South Windham have obtained their quotas and North Wfndham is not far from the goal The town of Windham did not fail to fully subscribe it's quotas in any of the four | previous loans and it will not in this l final one. but as one official said Fri | day afternoon, We must keep right on carvassing up to the time the bell rings; we not only want to subscribe the quota, we want 1t oversubscribed by a good margin And so today l (Saturday) the work of finishing up the canvass will go on. The local Boy Scouts and Girls will put in their big gest days work since the campaign I started in an effort to put the town of l Windham over the top in this final and great Fifth Victory Liberty loan campaign by a bigger margin than in any previous loan. It is hoped that
 
 has the slightest inclination to do il will take just one more bond today foI good measure.
 The session of the superior court opened Friday morning at ten thirty with Judge Greene of Norwich on the bench. Fourteen jurors responded
 when the jury list was called. Short
 calendar matters were then disposed of and the case of William Edgar Brown of this city. who at the Tues z day session Of the court. pleaded no guilty to the charge of statttory bur glary, was taken up. States Attorney
 Searls stated that the accused wished to change his plea to guilty. He wai
 allowed so to do and the states at torrey then presented the facts in tn. case. Brown had broken into Foley S
 Henry's. garage to get some gasolene , It being in the evening and dark. tn !. accused lighted a match to get hi bearings and in doing so set fire t
 the place. He then ran out and gav the alarm. As result of his care ? lessness the property was destroye,
 by fire. The states attorney explain
 ed that in talk with a number 0 l people ill regard to the case. syfnpa
 thy for the accused had been express
 edS especially by Mir. Foley, one of tn . members of the firm. and the latte
 asked that Brown be not sent to pris on. A sentence of one year in jail ant
 that tile accused be put on probation , was recommended by the states at torney. Judge Greene said he though
 this course proper one and Brow r was sentenced accordingly. He vii
 be ill charge of Probation Officer W lC. Lyman.
 The next case taken up was that o l nh tap of V1,14x, ,r,l,1 l,,. ) previously pleaded not guilty to tn charge of statutory burglary. The in /. terests of the accused were looked af ter by Public Defender Torrey :, The jury chosen to hear the case in , cluded Martin Warehouse, Windilam
 Arthur E. James. Ashford; Fran
 Smith, Canterbury; James Lewis. C
 Chaplin: Roy E. Latham Eastford - Arnold II. Battey, George W. Winslov
 Killingly; Jonas Danielson. Pomfret } l.. O. Haskins. Scotland: Alien \ Sayles, Sterling; Norman P Towne, I iP. Tourtellotte, Thompson.
 The first witness put on by tn state was George Perry of Putnam
 who works for Ransom H. Bradle, His testimony was to the effect thG Q he saw the accused with another ma
 go into the barn belonging to Bradle
 on the night of March 24. Witnes
 notified Bradley and they both wer
 to the barn and found the accuse I hiding behind post in the part of tf u barn where hens arc kept The at
 cused was turned over to the polio
 The next morning witness and Braf - ley went into the barn and found
 grain bag. which was presented {
 evidence. Attorney Torrey cross e,
 amined the witness. Ransom H. Brat
 ley corroborated much of the previo, l. witness testimony and the state res
 ed it's case at this point. The accuse
 then took the stand and through g interpreter told his story, in which d denied entering the barn with inter
 to steal. He said he saw a man {
 into the barn whom he thought W; |, George Perry. He denied knoWir }. anything about the bag.
 The attorneys submitted the ca without arguments and Judge Greer
 gave 8 short charge to the jury. IT
 jury required but few minutes
 find the accused guilty. MT. Tor,
 made short plea for the accus,
 and Judge Greene sentenced Geor;
 to state prison for term of not le 2, than one year nor more than tV :. years. II. P. Tourtellotte was for lS man of the jury which was then e, " cused until Thursday morning at J o'clock.
 "A A session of the superior court "
 be held, however, Tuesday morning d 10 o'clock, at which time naturaliz
 tion matters will be taken up.
 The Mothers Day meeting of t ,OlW W. c. T. U.. held Friday afternoon their rooms, proved one of the mo ,n interesting meetings held in so1 " time. The weather interfered som
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