Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-28
WESTERLY

ed the home of Gradilone where officers found some cloth.
 The principal witness Wednesday for the prosecution was Miss Helen Black stone, invoice clerk for the U. $. Finish ing company at Norwich, Conn. She testified to a shipment of poplin cloth to the William EchoIls Dry Goods Company of Fort Smith, Ark. The prosecution claims that one large shipping case con taining poplin for the Fort Smith con cern was rihed in q freight car at Brad ford and United States District Attorney Peter c. Cannon further contends that pieces of the alleged stolen poplin were found following the robbery in the homes of Biaggia Gradilone and James Azzu- mario. Miss Blackstone. when asked to idntify several government exhibits con taining poplin. said the goods on display in the court rooms resembled goods fin ished by the L. S Finishing Company at Norwich for the Max kaufmas Com pany of New York. and shipped from Norwich for the Fort Smith Company. Richard Parkinson of Westerly, freight conductor for the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad, testified in taking in charge string of cars at Bradford. Feb. T. for Midway, Conn. he discovered that tine seals of six freight cars had been broken.
 While one indictment against the three men charges only that they broke the seal of one car at Bradford on March g. the indictment against them charging conspiracy, sets forth that the defendants during the latter part of December. and during the months of January and Feb ruary and the earlier part of March, con spired with other to receive, buy and take away goods unlawfully from interstate commerce.
 Charles Bennett, receiving clerk of the Arbutnot & Stephenson Company of Pittsburgh, testified as to a shipment of lawn cloth from the Providence Dye and Bleachery Company, stating that when the shipment arrived only 11S yards were found in case wien 2900 yards had been shipped It is the conten.:on of the prosecution that the cloth m ssing at Pitts burgh had been stolen at Bradford and that part of the shipment had been re- covered from the homes of radiiore. : zzunaro and other men said by the Dis t-ict Attorney to have been associated with them in breaks of cars at Bradford.
 Nathan Cohen, shipping clerk of the Samuel Rosenthal Bros. clothing manu- flcturers in New York identified ship ping order calling for 161 boys suits for shipment to Lind & Murphy. clothing i1eaIers in Pawtucket. The prosecution contends that the shipment was stolen at Bradford the night of March 9. Many suits of the shipment were recovered and are shown as government exhibits at the -ial
 Mir. Cohen identified some of the suits | In the courtroom as bearing factory tags put on in New York. The recovered suits. however were not found in the home If the defendants, but came from the 1 homes of others who are said by the government to have been implicated with the defendants in the break at Bradford 1 March 9.
 During Wednesday Coroner Everett A. Kingsley of Westerly presented his resg- i 7ation to the town clerk. with the re- quest that special meeting of the town council be called at once to name his s,,ccessor. MT Kingsley hos boa the Hfice for about ten years. and he says tn | his other work now makes Il inn, -SsIDsc or him to continue as coroner
 Rev. Frederick A. Macdonald officiated st the marriage of Orrin ". Tarbox, son If Mrs Luzelia Tarbox, and Margaret C., daughter of Mir. and Mrs. James c. Stewart. They were attended by Miss Elizabeth Finley and Ernest White. The ceremony was performed at the Congre-
 
 rlage there was q reception at the honca 5f the brides parents in High street I Charles McGrath aud Catherine Cooper were married by Rev. John J. Fitzgerald. at a nuptial mass in St. Mchael's church l Wednesday with many friends in attend aIice. John Needham was best man and Miss Catherine Sullivan bridesmaid. Wed ding breakfast was served and reception teld at the home of the brides parents. Edr and Mrs Thomas Cooper in Moss street.
 Local Laconics
 A state department of Veterans of Foreign Wars is to be formed in Rhode
 hsland.
 ne flag at the plant of the R. A
 Sherman Sons company was at half-mast Wednesday in respect to the memory of
 Edgar Bailey.
 Mrs. John Reardon was called to Prov
 Hence Wednesday by the sudden and ser
 ious illness of her mother, Mrs. John C. I'-ollins.
 The republican rally in the town hall Wednesday evening was largely attended women predominating. The state and na- -ional issues were Interestingly explain
 -d.