Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-28

Westerly, Tuesday evening" from the | Lawrence-Memorial hospital, New Lon don, where he died in the afternoon. The | death certificate accompanying the body l was signed by Dr. Harold H. Heyer. and l the cause of death was given as a pistol 1 shot in the abdomen followed by l peretonitis. pr. Heyer is the medical ex- i aminer for New London. and the body | was forwarded to Westerly without an | autopsy being taken. When the body
 arrived at a local morgue Dr. NJ H. Scan ] lon, medical examiner was notified and 1 he communicated with Attorney General Rice. The attorney general advised that no autopsy be made by Dr. Scanlon
 as the death certificate stated that death
 resulted from a bullet The medical ex- aminer, then, in accordance with law. re- 1 ferred the matter to Coroner Kingsley.
 It was learned from surgeons at the 1 hospital, who operated on Edgar Bailey ] that there were twelve punctures caused l by the bullet which probably lodged in the pelvis. There were seven punctures l in the intestines, three in the orventus | and two in the messentery The attend ing surgeon suggested that the New Lon i don medical examiner take an ante-mor-
 tenn statement of Edgar Bailey, not as any part of his duty but as matter of ! 1 cal examiners have to do not with the living, but only with the dead,
 It is claimed that it was the plain duty of the Westerly authorities to see i to it that an ante-nortem statement be l taken That no resident of Rhode Island l is qualified to take such a statement in | Connecticut, does not preclude the Sc l curing of that all important document in | this part i&ular case.
 There is open criticism of the action of l the physician who was called to thel
 Bailey home, soon after the shooting l Saturday night when it was known that 1 Edgar had been shot by his brother, l Charles. in not notifying the police at 1 once, not waiting until he arrived in the New London hospital with the injured
 man. This gave Charles Bailey ample l opportunity to make a getaway from the police.
 When police officers arrived at the 1 Bailey home two hours after the shoot l ing, Mrs. Bailey the elderly mother of
 the two brothers, said that she and Ed gar were in the kitchen, when Charles
 came home intoxica ted. That the broth
 CTS had some words. Charles lighted a lantern and went up stairs. He came back with his revolver. It was dis
 charged. Edgar cried out: You shot
 me" and fell from the chair Charles said: 'I'm sorry; you'd better get doctor" Then Charles went to Fred Boy ingtons house and at his request Dr. Johnson was summoned. The aged moth-
 CT said she had not seen Charles since
 and that the shooting was accidental.
 Mrs. Bailey has changed her story of the shooting since then. She saw Charles go up stairs and come back with the
 revolver. She heard the discharge and saw Charles leave the house saying he
 was going for a doctor She asked Edgar ' If he was shot and he said no. Edgar
 went out doors and when he came back,
 the mother asked him again if he was
 shot and he said no. Edgar went out
 third time and when he returned, he
 was again asked if he was shot. He said
 he was and showed his mother the woundy
 Mrs. Bailey said by this time, the doc
 tor came, and they took Edgar away.
 It was rumored about town Wednes-
 day. that Charles Bailey had probably
 committed suicide. A man answering his description was seen near the Aldrich farm, at Brown Bridge Late Sunday | afternoon the same man was seen sitting near tree. and as two employees of the farm approached, he walked off and in-
 to the woods. Later tw oshots fired in
 quick succession were heard. This is the
 basis for the suicide rumor.
 Edgar A. Bailey was born in Portland I Me, and for the past fifteen years was employed as a planer at the plant of the l T. A Shermans Sons company. He was 1 member of the Carpenters union. Be g sides his brother, Charles. and his aged , mother, he is survived by a sister, Mrs g Helen Colgrove. He was of good repu g tation and held in high regard by his g employers and associate workmen.
 In the United states district court in
 Providence. in the trial of the cases of
 Braggio radilone, James Azzunario and . Salvatore Palidino, all of Westerly charged with theft from freight cars, Sergeant v Greene of the railroad force, was re- called to the witness stand. He identi- fled the goods in the court room as hay , ing been taken from the home of Azzu- ,, mario early in the morning of March 10,
 and claimed by railroad detectives as
 having been goods taken unlawfully from freight cars at Bradford.
 Sergeant Donald Ferguson, of the West q erly police, told the court that some Boy l. Scouts found a large quantity of cotton and woolen cloth and clothing in woods
 near Westerly village, a few days after
 nine Westerly Italians had been arrested
 for breaking into freight cars. identified goods in the court room as being those l he and another officer found in the woods ' after being shown the place by Boy !. Scouts. District Attorney Cannon tkase 5 the position that the goods found in the
 woods were stolen from cars in Brad , ford.
 Policeman Frederick T. Mitchell, of the n Westerly force, testified that early on the morning of March 10, he visited with , other officers the home of Gradilone ant T found a quantity of cloth in a burear . drawer on the first floor and in trunt
 on the second floor He said some ot n the goods in the court room resemblet goods taken from Gradilone's home.
 Henry F. Chase of the Westerly DO s lice department, told of visiting a tene f nent house occupied by two Italian fam s flies, and of finding Paldino in bed. Pal ,, dino explained his presence there b1
 saying he went to the house to writ'
 insurance. that while there he got drunl t and went to bed.
 e Alexander Thompson special constabl, s at Bradford. was the next witness. HI l. testified to examining several freigh
 tears that had been robbed. He also visit