Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-18
PUTNAM

Approximately 300 men in this city l will be directly affected. if a general rail- | road strike is made effective on Sunday, | October 30, it was stated by local rail- | road man Monday morning. Many hun dreds of other residents of the city will be | indirectly though very vitally concerned l in what is prospectively regarded as one | of the worst calamities that could befall l the business interest of the nation.
 Railroad workers here are more num- erous here than the average Putnam res ident realizes. They include train crews, five of these being of local freights op- erating out of this city, crews of work
 trains, freight handlers section men. clerks, engine house forces and other workers.
 All of these are following with s-rl1e closes attention the strike news now ap- bearing in the daily press It is very cer- l tain, 1t Is declared, that the great ma | jority of Putnam men will obey the orders of their respective unions and go out on strike if it is finally so ordered. The
 railroad men are fully cognizant of the
 seriousness of the situation that would
 follow the declaring of a strike and of having 1t in effect for an appreciable pe-
 riod of time. They feel, however. that there is justice in their cause and will obey Headquarters orders if the strike Is put into effect No railroad man here would venture an opinion as to whether any of the Putnam railroad workers would remain at work in case of a strike. though certain that nearly all will go out if the time for that eventually comes. Putnam. as community, would suffer more seriously than many towns in case
 of a general railroad strike. It is one ot the eight principal transfer points for freight on the entire New Haven system
 and tradesmen of the city benefit very
 materially from expenditures by rail-
 road workers and members of their fam lilies.
 How James Smith was held up, ehOlxed
 and relieved his money, was one of
 the interesting tales that came to the ears of the police of this city Monday } morning It appears that Smith, who is
 colored and is employed by John Sabin was on his way to his home just after
 midnight Saturday and was passing . through School street near Fishers stor,
 when one of party ot men il an auto
 mobile called to him and asked the route
 to Providence. The car rolled past Smi i and came to stop after the question ] was asked and eventually Smith came u , with and stopped beside the machine give the necessary directions. He was in , stantly seized by the throat by one of ' men in the car, while another frisked hi s pockets and extracted a little more thar 3 | s16 therefrom. Whereupon the man wh, I held Smith in a vise-like grip thrust hin = aside and the machine shot away befor c Smith fully realized just what had beel l put over on him. The entire operation e did not occupy more than two minutes . Smith declares, and he never had a chanc g to exert his unusual muscular powers t K offset the situation in which he foun T himself, so sudden and unexpected va y the attack upon him. There is no clu 8 that leaves much hope that those respons
 ible for the holdup can be located an l. punished.
 e Smith was deeply chagrined over hi l. experience, for he is capable of giving e rare good account of himself in such !. situation had he but known Of the plC ,, against him
 t Louise LaMountain, 12, of North o1 l. ford, died in a Worcester hospital Sur n day night of injuries received Sunda r. afternoon when she was struck by a. e le owned and driven by Frank w. Russell of this city. MT. Russell took the injure
 child into his machine and rushed her is the office of Dr. Robert S. Fletcher h. was found that she was suffering from sd fracture of the skull, and the physicis 'n directed that she be removed to the ci t. hospital in Worcester.
 H. MT. Russell Is Quoted as having made m report to Traffic Officer Herbert N Ben n. is in which he stated that the LaAiou
 tain girl pulled away from another gi ra with whom she was walking and dart .d across the highway and directly into t as path of the car. He did everything in h
 power to prevent the accident, but the le CT headlight on the machine struck tl fe child and felled her to the car tracks ne With Mir. Russell at the time Of u s6 accident was his wife and his moth
 and father.
 or Rosanna Messier, who was with q e. LaMountain girl at the time of the a ,ls