Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-26
PUTNAM

partment. Not only does l'erllo admit l his participation in the affair but he also l duplicates Salvatore LaRosa, being held in Brooklyn jail on a similar charge. La Rosa was brought to Putnam last week and was presented in the city court. The state made out a weak case IS Officer Murray was at the time unable to iden- tify LaRosa as one of his assail2nts. With the confession of Perilio, in which he states that the other man was La Rosa, the whole affair has been satisfac- torily cleared up.
 Due credit is being given Charles Satti of Webster, a brother officer of Murray, who arrived in Putnam from Lawrence. Mass, with Perillo. Satti did not know either of the men but worked on descriptions furnished him by local officers
 The assault in which Murray was in jured happened at four o'clock in the morning on May 29th last Since that time fellow officers, city and county of ficials have been working to capture the two men who, it was thought, were re- sponsible as both disappeared from Put nam on that day, Perillo leaving his wife and several children in destitute circumstances.
 Perillo had talked lite with Satti. When he reached the Putrlm police sta ton Captain John Bulger took him in hand for some time. Finally Perillo weakened and made a complete confes- sion of the whole affair. He signed the confession and acknowledged it's truth in the city court.
 4 special session of the court was held i iu the office of Judge NJ. 1T. Geisslcr at eleven o'clock Saturday morning. Peril 10 was charged with breaking and enter | ing. larcency, assault and resisting an 1 officer. Prosecuting Attorney Morse told 1 him that the charges were of a serious nature and asked him whether he wish i ed 10 plead guilty or not guilty Guilty 1 said Periuo. The confession which he l signed in the police station was then read | to him and he was asked if it was true i and he said it was. Tn the confession l Perilio stated that on the afternoon ! of May 2Sth he met LaRosa. on the street 1 in Putnam. LaRosa asked him what he
 was doing and PerilIo said he was look | ing to get something to eat for his fam 1 fly. According to Perillo, LaRosa sug-
 gested that they go that night and steal some chickens. Near midnight they started from PeriIlo's home carving a bag, and went toward Putnam Heights At the farm of Edward Wood they broke the lock on the hen house and both en- | tered. Perillo held the bag and LaRosa
 wrung the necks of ten chickens and
 they were put into the bag and the pair
 started for home.
 Perillo and LaRosa had reached the l railroad track near the gas house a few | hundred feet north of the bridge over the Quinebaug river south of the rail road station when they saw man com ing. The two hid in the bushes near- by. The man was Officer Murray and
 when he got to where they were he spot ted them He had a revolver in his hand and this made Perillo mad. The officer
 asked them what they had in the bag
 and they replied that they had come a
 long way and that what was there be-
 longed to them. Murray bent over to sec
 what the bag contained when Fertile
 set upon him. Perillo struck the officer
 with his fist and grabbed his revolver
 With the revolver the officer was struck
 in the mouth and on the head and knock
 ed down. LaRosa. according to the con.
 fession, then hit Murray over the head
 twice with a hammer; both men then
 ran
 Alter the confession had been read.
 Officer Murray when asked if it waf
 about as he remembered it, replied that i it w2s substantially correct but that he
 would make one or two changes in it. H. ! thought that Perillor was the man whc 5 hit him over the head with the hammer just before the two men ran Murray t was asked if he could identify Perillo a. . one of the assailants. q would lik. to hear him talk replied the officer Parillo was then questioned by the prose s cutor. He had said but few word' . wren Officer Murray said: That's thr . voice! I recognize that. The man wa! about his height and build. In m, . opinion that is one of the men !'' Prob able cause was found and PerilIo wa held in bonds of s2.oOQ for the superio 3 court. He was unable to furnish tn , bond and was taken to jail.
 As the result of the assault Office s Murray was laid up for several days H
 had several bad scalp wounds, his Iii . was cut and he lost tooth AIthougI 7 severely injured the officer took the ba, 3 containing the chickens to the engin r house in the railroad yard about a mil 5 from the site of the assault He thel 8 notified the police and remained wit . them until eight o'clock while searcl T was made for the assaiants. County In , vestigator William F. Jackson, Satti an, ] Murray, railroad policemen, and Captail
 Bulger Of the Putnam police departn7e en = were the officers present at the hearini f before the city court.
 Members of Elizabeth Porter Putnam chapter, D. A. R., went on 8 pilgrimage
 1 Saturday. to the old Huguenot cemeter - in Oxford, Mass. They looked over tn old tombstones in the historic buria ground and then went to the shores o
 i Webster lake where they were guests a
 the summer cottage of Byron D. Bugbe and were served luncheon.
 = Miss Maud Carpenter, daughter o f Mrs. Alice Carpenter, South Main street
 a graduate of the Connecticut College fo | Women last June, has gone to Mort q Troy Vt, where she was elected a teach - CT in the high school.
 F William RaBerty and Henry Brous
 seau, midshipmen at the U. & Maya f Academy will leave today (Monday) [ n resume their duties, following a furi6ug l spent at their homes here, after the sun
 mer cruise. This is Rafferty's third an , Brousseau's second year at the acads l. my.
 The new building of the j. B. Tate1 $ X Sons handle factory, George street. b. l. ing built to replace the factory destroy
 ed by fire on the night of July 2Sth, n nearing completion and will be ready fc Il occupancy in few weeks The factor l. will be enlarged and will be. 109 by 4 t feet the old building being 70 feet lon
 A cement wall twelve feet high has bee s erected at the rear end of the buildip IT making that part of the plant absolute, h. fire proof. Cement walls have been con 2- structed between the boiler room and u
 factory proper and the entire structul n is roofed with asbestos. The most mol le ern machinery is now being install, le and modern exhaust system will 1t installed to carry away oil dust ar
 shavlngs. The concern has plenty of 0 -n lnrs tirana n--tanSfnnz In--