Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-02

Late Friday afternoon in the superior , court here before Judge George E. Hin man and a jury. Theodore Etheier of tthis city. alias Theodore Hickey and Teodel Ethier, was placed on trial on the charge of theft of $500 from Joseph | Douchette and Mrs. Rose Rothing, both l of this city. | It is charged that the theft took place
 on June 30, 1920 near the submarine base | at Groton and. that the roll of. $500 dis l appeared from under pillow on a bed in the cottage where Mrs Rothing had placed it. She saw Douchette and Eth | fer lying on the bed and the money was gone when she looked some time later. Both she and Ethier had been out of the kouse between the time she placed I the money there and when she discov- cred that it was gone.
 In the trial of the case Mr. Ethier is defended by attorney Thomas M | Shields. while state attorney Hadlai A. I Hull is assisted by Warren Burrows who is prosecuting attorney. for the Gro 4 ton town court from which Hickey was | bound over to the superior court.
 I Attorney G. c. Morgan of New Lon I don testified to drawing papers for Jo- seph Douchette and Mrs Rose .Rothing for the sale of hotel in New London The hotel was sold to MT. Isbell and a Dr. Charles. MT. Morgan saw s100 paid at that time which was the initial i, payment on the sale Both Mir Dou-
 chette and Mrs. Rothing were there but
 MT. Morgan could not remember which
 one received the money
 On cross examination by Attorney laShields. Mir. Morgan testified Douchette said they were selling the hotel because
 of a raid that had been made there ,l Mrs. Rose Rothing of Norwich testi- fled that in June. 1920 she kept room ing house at the Nutmeg hotel in New
 London. MT. Douchette conducted the
 saloon part of the hotel. They sold ou,
 on June 2S to Mir. Isbell and Doc l for s400, receiving s100 on June 2S and
 s30 on June 29. On the 2sth of June T the witness said she counted her mon ; ey and had $650 of her own and or
 June 30 Douchette gave her $200 more
 On June 30 she and her niece Mrs
 North, and Douchette went in Ethier's : | jitney car to the submarine base at : Groton. They went to place where g ! woman had a cottage to rent, hired il
 and paid $29 a month rent in advance : and came back to New London and ther , | returned again to the cottage where 4 the niece had remained to clean it up. The witness said the money was in . 1 canvas bag inside her pocketbook whicl 1 she held in her hand when she returned tle SeCouu LlIne to the cottage. Sne saw Y that Douchette and Ethier were drink
 ing and she put the pocketbook unde
 | the bolster on the bed, telling Douchett,
 ! that she had done so. Ethier was il
 the next room, the kitchen, when sh, f | told Ethier this. Later Douchette la, . l down on the bed He was do2ey Eth l, fer also lay on the bed with Douchette i Mrs. Rothing went away to he ! daughters cottage nearby and whcl : she returned found Douchette asleep ol . the bed, Ethier gone and the pocket f book with the money gone from unde < the pillow. Later when Ethier cam . back she told him the money was gon f. and charged him with taking it. Dou !. chette also told Ethier he knew Ethie . had, but Ethier denied it. Ethier sai 2 Mrs. Rothing might search him whicl 5 she did and found he hadn't a, cent i , his clothes. Ethier said he hadn't talk r cn her money because he had $50 o i. go of his own, but somebody had roll | ed him for that. The witness testifie d 10 other times when she charged hir n with taking the money.
 On cross examination by Attorne y Shields he brought out that Mrs Roth 5 ing has been twice married, her secon e husband being Bert Rothing who Is i z the navy. She denied that she paid s2 @ TOT some llQuOr Tn tn can sN 6I
 Bank street when they came back t t New London and she denied also tha r she told -Ethier she was hiring the cot ?. tage to sell hooch to the sailors and
 Ether had any Hive ones'' in his ca
 to bring them down from Norwich an
 she would have girls there. She tes
 tihed that subsequently, she, was pu = out of the cottage because what Ethie ' said about her and Mrs. Sullivan sai = Ethier had reported he, had paid thre ,o months rent for the cottage and va
 going to have girls there Once Ethit 4 said he wouldn't give the money bac ,o if she hung him for it.
 On redirect examination by Attorne Burrows Mrs Rothing said she foun - the empty pocketbook under the couc
 in Che kitchen and found couple st coins on the bed. The pocketbooks ar z 1 coins were put in as exhibits in u t' case.
 John Hennessey, chief master at arn fir | at the submarine base, a navy man fl
 IS years. test.efd thf.t he saw Ethi sz coming up the Highway about 8 o'clot e on the night of June 30,. staggering . d over the road. There was bottle stic n. ing out of Ethier's pocket He offer, ia Hennessey a drink which the latter d ,i-l clined. The navy man asked Ethi'
 what he was doing there to which Et as Ter replied that he had hired a cotta 2 for three months and had plenty
 booze there Ethier pulled punches bills out of both pockets saying to He