Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-13

ing Wednesday,, as has been the rule througout the trial The accused have persistently denied any responsibility for the robbery of the Law home, though admitting being in the vicinity on the day the crime was committed. Attorney Torrey impressed the jury with the fact on Wednesday during the course Of his argument that the aggregate sum of money found on Drew and Melvern when they were arrested at Webster was materially less than the amount they are accused of having stolen at the low home, and that between the time of the robbery and tir,~- = ~-=- of tha witnesses o-lied to show how they expended the difference betM ~, ~ was stolen and what was found on their person. The mother of Drew, who appeared as witness, show ed receipts for Toney orders that rep resented funds which she testified she had sent to Drew, these accoun nting, 1t was claimed, for much of the money found in his possession.
 After being out an hour and forty minutes the jury returned with a verdict | finding Melvern guilty of breaking and | entering and guilty of stealing $S9. He was sentenced to serve from to years i on the first count and from 1 to years
 
 concurrently. Drew was found guilty of receiving stolen goods to the value of | S12 and was sentenced to serve 30 days In jan.
 Putnam's evening school win open Mon- | day evening next, at Putnam High school and will continue until spring. At least | 75 sessions will be held and the hope ] is that large numbers of Putnam people | will take advantage of the opportuni- 1 ties that the night school will open for l them. AS for several years past Lewis F
 Battey will be principal of the school and | will teach some of the classes. Mir Bat | tey, graduate of Yale university, speaks 1 both English and French and is an able l instructor, who has accomplished grea
 good through his work In the evening | schools.
 Principal Battey will have as his as l sistants Byron Wilcox and Miss Elsi,
 Gallant, who will ave charge of the com 1 mercial courses
 The evening school that the town O
 Putnam provides has been the means O | furnishing a large number with the op portunity to complete grade school cours
 es and others with their chance to ge
 the rudiments of an education denied | them in earlier years The school know
 no limitations so far as age or sex i
 concerned and offers it's facilities to al who experience a desire to improve thei | knowledge. The hope has been ex
 pressed by school officials that large mum
 bers vii be present and register for tn
 courses next Monday evening.
 Rufus SIowry, who has been workin,
 at Mechanicsville, was before Judge NJ
 H. Geissler in the city court Wednesda,
 morning. Mowry answered to a charg
 of having been intoxicated and receives
 a sentence of 30 days in jail. Evidenc
 produced against him in court include
 a pint bottle containing some liquid tha
 had smell gloriously reminiscent c
 pre-partly-dry days. According t
 Mowry's story what was left in the bot
 tie represented purchase he had mad
 for s, after being invited by some ac l quaintances here to have a drink an
 complimenting them on the quality C what they gave him. Mowry had n knowledge of where the intoxicant va obt-ined, as he claimed not to have pun chased it, nor of the identity of the con genial persons who invited him to drin of their expensive beverage.
 Captain J. H. BulEer spent some of hi j time Wednesday on the trial of canv assers-women-who were engaged il the city, endeaVoring to sell books. Tn captain did not like the nature of som of the reports received by him relativ to the book agents, so set out to inter view them.
 When executors of the estate of Nol man B. Ream, who left several millio dollars, file a report of their trust in tn I probate court at Thompson today (Thur: day), proceedings will be no more tha those formally required In filing an ar