Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-04
DANIELSOR AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

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 Antonio Pusipicate, claiming New Ha. ven as his home, was being held We'd nesday for state prohibition enforcement officials at the police station here. Pusi- picate was picked up in Pomfret by Captain Robert Hurley of, the state po- lice, and State Officer Howard E. Elliott. while Pusupicate was guarding waiting touring car in which he is suspected to have engaged in rum running between New Haven and Providence.
 A front wheel was torn off the ex- pensive touring car that Pusipicate was travelling in with two companions the ac- cident happening not far from the Pom
 fret railroad station, near the Albert
 Ayerin place. High speed in round-
 ing dangerous curve is held to have
 been responsible to the accident to the machine in which a quart of whiskey and quart of wine were found.
 Search of Pusipicates person at the po- lice station here revealed that he was 1 carrying S1159 in cash. He told con- flcting stories and among other things said that he was on his way to Provi- dence after a load of cheese when the | accident happened This was manifestly true, as his car was heading feT Wilt mantle when it was wrecked. The car was enclosed with curtains and the rear seat cushion had been removed.
 l The machine was wrecked about a.
 m., the crash awakening members of the | Averill family. The later activities u1 i the men who were in the car in seeking | to get their smashed machine repaired | attra attion to them as suspicious
 characters and the state police depart
 ment a?t Hartford was notified By the 1 time Saptain Hurley and Officer Elliott l reached Pomfret Pusipicate's two com panions failing to obtain new wheel | hereabouts, had gone on to New Haven
 after another, so they escaped arrest Pusipicate is being held for investiga- l ton and questioning on the theory that he
 was enroute home after having delivered
 load of whiskey in Providence. He ex. plained to the officers that the loduor found in the car was purchased by hin in Providence, for which city he alsc
 claimed he was bound.
 There was great, practically unlimited joy in the ranks of the republicans o i this city and all the surrounding coun
 try Wednesday. No more positive victor,
 after eight years of their control q l Washington was hailed with unusual ae claim by the republicans of this city.
 There was not a vestige of democrati
 triumph in any of the territory here | abouts. so the victory of the republican | was complete.
 State Treasurer q. Harold Giipatric O this city received many congratulation l from his home town folks as we'll a from different sections of the state an
 Archibald Macdonald reelected stat
 senator, was also felicItated upon tn . magnitude of his victory which will .mak ] him a member of the Connecticut senat . for third term
 e The victory of the local republica : candidates for representative was als complete Luther M Keith who is t member of the board of selectmen of tr : town. and Hector Duvert. who has prt f Viously represented Putnam in the Ter T islature, each were given very stron d support and won out by big margins T As had been predicted in this colum; e the talk about the women of the republ
 can party of this city and town opposin n Grandegee at the polls was mostly bur d and represented only the desire of e m'nutely small faction in the party If The returns prove this, as they did y other towns hereabouts
 Democrats of this city had little -- say Wednesday. Their defeat was l overwhelming that little room for di s cussion remained. It is an open secrc > however. that many dennocrat ts were al d gusted with their marty leadership le cvading the pdrohibition issue. which
 matter of fact far overshadowed Il 0- ol HdtlOHS question m the mi0i l. of the average man who works with h c. hands, and so voted the republican tick $ as means of protest and net bacau t they arc sincerely republican or ocean T. they believe in the policies of that pa ty. which also evaded the wet and d, y issue, but which offered the onlv nea1 g. of penalizing the democratic organiz l. ton.
 Il Checking rp the losses caused by fl m robbery of the Dr. John Jav house. cIo l. ed for the season. at Pomfret. does n 1t | indicate that a loss of great moment h. ot been incurred. Judge Charles o. Thon7 al son of Pomfret while in this city We
 resday morning said that an effort w i- being made to determine just how mn IS had been taken. He pointed out that mu .e of value that was in the home. ,ncludi1 # some valuable rugs. had not beer di of turbed It is believed h,wever. n
 several automobile tires were stolen. 'f pr. FFeeman A. Libby, one of Pr e nam's prominent men, died at his hor 7o on Ring street Tuesday afternoon. f. Il lowing an illness of several mo lths. I ls Libby was the son of AnseI J. a aad Sar le NJ. (Cobb) Libby and was born in De tn terri Maine, January 3. 1859. He W re educated in the Wateryille Maine Cia n isical Institute, and at Dartmouth M,t T. cal college, graduating with saIutata IT. III honors with the class of 1881. -uon