Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-20
DANIELSOR AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

It was stated here Thursday that the-E yarn shortage at the plant of the Man hasett company has been relieved by the arrival of shipment of seven carloads. It was also stated Thursday
 morning that vessel carving. yarn consigned to the Manhasett company had arrived at New London from New Bedford and that the yarn will be for warded from New London to this city at once. The company is now operat- ing at practically full capacity again
 and the yarn received and in transit
 will keep the plant going for at least week, by the end of which time ship ping facilities may be more nearly normal.
 Another storm swept out of the north Thursday as a reminder to those who are hoping against hope that winters bonds soon will be broken that the calendar is still recording February days and that official spring is still four weeks away. Thursdays storm started in with i rain ip the early morning, changing to snow within a couple of hours The latest disturbance made travel diff cult and quickly chenged the city's streets into avenues of slush. through which many hundreds of people plod- | ded to their work Trairs were not l greatly delayed and the bus service 1 between this city and DanieIson was maintained. Drivers of motor vehicles l found, the conditions created by the 1 storm to be trouble makers, and this , was Illustrated when two closed cars, l negotiating the turn around the silent :; policeman in the center of the city. 1 crashed into each other Snow On the ] windshield ooscured the vision of tl.e ] driver of one of the vehicles. neither of which was damaged to any extent 1 A new chapter in the "stolen carl i story that has been written piecemeal 1 during the past four. weeks was 1 brought out on Thursday when it was announced that state officials had i seized two more cars and that another | had been inspected with view to
 establishing its history and legal owri- ership.
 Two of the cars were located in this | city, one, a Hudson coupe, owned by Jesse Rich, another a Buick. owned by I Henry Jodoin, a driver for the Keith
 Trucking and Garage company. f State Policemen Bridgeman and Il Flynn, working with Captain Bulger | and representatives of insurance con-
 cerns. have been Investigating here during this week. and their activities 1 during the period resulted in the an 1 nouncement on Thursday that two cars had been seized and that another l was under investigation.
 As the story of the manner in which | stolen cars were unloaded wholesale
 on unsrsDectfng Putnam people con
 tinues to unfold there is a very greatly l increased desire to locate one H. B.
 Wright, otherwise known as Adams
 who seems to be the person that in all
 probability can furnish much informa-
 tion that officials here would like to
 come into possession of, for Wright. or ! Adams, was the man who brought
 most of the stolen cars into this terri l tory and sold them to dealers, who
 had no idea that the machines were being otherwise than Iegitimately sold
 It now develops that Wright found
 Putnam and vicinity a bonanza field
 for disposing of a number of the cars
 that came into his possession. ard 1t was estimated up to Thursday after
 noon's discoveries that he had taken
 away over $6.000 for cars disDosed of
 here or in the immediate vicinity.
 In official circles here Thursday af-
 ternoon it was claimed that the Hud-
 son coupe which Mir. Rich bought is
 the property of Merrice Murphy of
 South Lincoln, Mass. and that it was
 stolen on May g of last year. Owner
 ship Of the Jodoin Brick has not been determined, but officers claim numbers on it have been tempered with This car was disposed of here through the
 PeDin agency.
 That Wright unsuspectingly fol otherwise, managed to find a market 1 here for a number of cars that have
 been announced during the past three 1 weeks as stolen machines was due 1T
 very great measure. it is claimed, tc | the fact that dealers here had conf. i dence in his standing and never hat
 any reason to susDect that the car. they were purchasing were otherwis,
 than as represented.
 Up to Thursday every effort to To- : cate Wright had failed He has beer | absent from his usual haunts in thi state and in Massachusetts since las summer. seemingly having dropped completely out of sight.
 E Seizure of the Rich and .Todoin car , as mentioned here consisted merely il F warning the men mentioned not t
 dispose of the cars or permit them t go out of their possession.
 Tn connection with one of the stole, 2 cars owne-7 here a story was being re ' lated on Thursday of this machine , first appearance in this city, a mum . ! ber of months ago. It broke down a Thomnson while being driven her
 from Boston, where it had been stoler
 A local garage man who lowed 1t i r negotiated a sale of new car of th g same make in it's place It eventual : was taken to Boston and was agai stolen and found its way back to thi T city.
 :. The name of Mrs. H. w. Maerten n of this city appears in the list ( C guests who were staying at the LOT 3 t-raine hotel on Aborn street in Proyi