Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-12

A. Chappeli, Willis Copeland, George T. | Crane, Daniel Cunningham, Winslow E. | Gallup, Charles c. Gaulin, Charles E. Howe, Frank W. Landon, Walter E. Lanphear, Frank C. -Lummis, Frank H. 1 Upton, Walter F. Vail, Burton M. Welch. i Merritt Welch.
 Funeral services of Newell E. Bixby. S5, son of George Bixby, who died at his home in East Thampson early Sat urday morning were held at the home Monday at II o'clock Tho body was taken to Swan Point, R. L, for burial. Mir. and Mrs. Frank R. WiUnan, of
 Mechanics street, have returned from d stay al Watch Hill, R. l.
 Mrs. G. Harold Gilpatrlc and Miss
 Rhoda Gilpatric, who are passing the summer at the Gilpatric summer hone at Juniper Point Me, came to Putnam on Sunday for a brief stay. rhsy return 10
 Maine Wednesday.
 l Sherlock Holmes himself never Move Q
 more damaging case than that gotten
 together by Captain John Bulger and Prosecuting Attorney Ernest C. Morse,
 and used against Eugene Laparie, when
 that young man was brought before
 Judge MakIon II. Geisser in the Putnam
 city court Monday afternoon, charged l With breaking and entering, in the night ! time, with the intention of cancntting.
 crime. Laparle's arrest followed the
 discovery Sunday mor~ing that some
 time after the last performance Saturday
 night the Bradley theater had teen
 broken into, all posters and advertising matter ripped from the display frames and torn, curtains and decorative 1rap- cries torn down and rods smashed, anl
 the projection screen gashed fiom ore
 side to the other. The only clue was d broken lead pencil which was found
 by Captain Bulger on the floor of the ltheater stage, directly under the projec- tion screen. This pencil, of the ordi- nary wooden variety, was the state 7! claims, half of the pencil used in slash- ing the screen.
 Suspicion resting upon Laparle, his home was visited early ''unday morning, and in his coat pocket was found the oth-
 CT half of the pencil which had been
 picked up from the stage hoor Further
 examination of the pencil showed it to
 be covered with silvery flakes which
 were identified by Hyde Smith, the man. ager of the Bradley, as particles of the l special paint used in coating motion pie
 ture screens. Laparles coat pocket la- pei was also covered with this same gilt tering paint. When all of these facts were presented to Judge Geissler, he found probable cause and ordered La parle held for the next term of the . Windham county superior court having
 criminal Jurisdiction. Bonds of $1,00O
 were ordered, and upon raising these Laparle was permitted to go.
 . The case attracted much attention ir Putnam, and when court convened Mon. ! day afternoon the little room where the hearings are held was picked to tn, , doors.
 : Hyde Smith was the first witness call q ed. He described to the court the dam . age that had been done to the play k house. He testified that all of the lobby :, advertising was ripped from the frame
 and torn, that photographs on display , had been ripped in two and thrown tI !, the floor, that silk curtain in the thea | ter had been pulled from its hangings # and the rod holding it bent and tha = the silk draperies in the boxes wer . pulled from their places and the fasten l. ings broken. On the stage, he said, tn f side curtains had been torn down, an, !; the projection screen. silver-fihre sheet - slit from side to side smaller gasl , had also been made above the long one !, He also testified that a year ago h appeared in the Putnam city eour P against Laparle when at that time h
 had been arrested for splitting tobacc |, juice on the interior walls of the thea = ter.
 Wilfred Gilbert, theater empIoye. tn v second witness, told of going to the thea tre early Sunday morning and of findin y things in an upset condition. He ha IL seen to the locking of all doors on Sat e urday night. Sunday morning the fir l' escape door leading to the Livery stree r alley-way was open, and dressing-roor 4 door, used to take trunks into the thea Il ter, was pushed in. This door had pre-
 viously been nailed so. as to preven el opening. He also told the court that b