Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-22


 implicated, according to Warden Charles 5. Linscott.
 The plans for the escape were dis covered by Deputy Warden Frank A. Crosby, two months ago. The prisoners had some assurance that an eight cylinder automobile. owned by a man whose relatives visit the prison every week, could be used by the prisoners in the escape.
 Trent was implicated in a plot to es- cape a year ago this month. A visitor threw bundle of 12 hack saws over the top of a grating and they were taken away from Trent after he had been chased inside. the prison. James Mo l Loughlin,s the visitor, got a year in jail for his part in the scheme
 Trent. last year finished a 10 years l sentence for robbery and began serving l a lifes sentence for the murder of William D. ,Meagher, Pawtucket storekeepcs, imposed on Oct. 25.- 1910. His arrest followed a series of terrifying crimes. sss ta
 Meilo was sentenced on Nov. 10, 1919, l the crime leading to his arrest occurring at Kingston, where three men were slain and robbed in a railroad shaAty. Smith was sentenced to serve 30 years on May 3, 1917, for killing John Magna1l, of or I neville grocer. Allen and Mason were sentenced for 20 years Imprisonment or l April 12, 1916. lDeMarquette was sen I fenced to five years for burglary an March 26, 191s
 Corp. ". Russell Dower of Westerly | a veteran of the St Mihiel and Argonne forest battles, the latter costing him his | right arm, was elected paymaster of the Soldiers bonus board. l MT. Downer was one of the seven l candidates seeking the appointment. He will commence his duties soon, getting Efamiliar with the law at the work wl1icf he will perform when payments begin, or May l.
 A gang of the strikers, forty or more made a demonstration before the mer 1 in the employ of a New London con. tractor engaged in building spur tracl to the new silk mill plant, and threat ened to do bodily harm unless the mer quit work. Special Officer Burke remon strated with the strikers, advised then not to resort to violence as it might in jure their cause.
 1 Other bodies of strikers went dowr Pleasant View way and tried to induce ] employees of the NewaH company, o l Uxbridge, Mass, to stop work on tht highway and join their ranks. This th' laborers from Massachusetts declined tt do, as they were satisfied with their pa! and were under agreement to continu' work under the firms contract with thu town of Westerly. It is said these mel were warned by the strikers that if the. were on the job, Thursday morning, ther would be something doing
 At the present time out-of-town con l tractors, five of them, have contracts fo | work in Westerly, begun before the loca laborers went on strike. and upon which no local men had been employed but jobs were open to them if they de sired to work Some of those contrac tors are hampered by the strike a they expected to secure g. force of Ia borers here, but in no instance have me been brought here to take the places 0 the strikers.
 Contractors have applied to the tow council for police protection of thei workmen from outside intimidation. Tn police committee held a session follow ing which Police Chief Brown was in structed to prepare for any emergency Chief Brown does not anticipate. an trouble. He declares that the mai body of the strikers Is disposed peaceable methods for the solution. C the situation and satisfied no good woul | come to the effort to secure more pay resorting to methods unlawful.
 The strike, if not speedily settled, liable to interfere with the progress ( | sewer constructor, the building Of ne roads to Bradford and Pleasant Viev the rebuilding of the Shore road, tt Lorraine mill extension, the new sil mill, the work on the public highway l the sewer and water departments, an
 the general building throughout th
 town The employers have offered a con
 promise, which has been rejected by u
 laborers who want 75 cents an hour fc
 an eight hour day. with increase fo
 overtime, and several conditions that al