New Britain herald., 1921-08-03
PAMVlLxE NEWS
MYSTERY SHR0UDS
 VANISHED LIQUOR
Startling Discovery of Shortage
 Of C0nfSCated "HooCh"
McNALLY GARAGE ROBBED

MCNALLY GARAGE ROBBED Opportunity For Local Nurses to
 Study At College-Minist4rs' Asso
 ciation Adopt Resolution for Rev.
 R. H. Burton-Other Notes.
 Hist! The ghost" the "Hooch ghost" of Plainville, has commenced
 it's nightly walk amongst the rafters
 in the Town Hall again. Last Febru- ary, it's apparent existence was discov-
 cred when two large gallon jugs of
 confiscated booze was missing from
 the vault in the town hall and later
 found empty of their contents and re-
 posing gently from a rafter in the basement of the building. Now it ap- pears that its thirst must be quenched
 again as a large quantity of the s'joy f1uid' is missing from its resting place
 in the cells of the town hall in which it had been placed following a raid on several stores and private stills in the town and vicinity of Mountain View.
 Last May, Constable John Conli11,
 with State Officer Flynn, swooped down upon persons at Mountain View and secured some stills containing the l liquor. It was hidden, that is, it was | locked in one of the cells in the town hall, far from the clutches of any one desiring a taste of the delicious fluid The cell could not be entered by any one but representatives of the law of
 the town of Plainville. Of these there
 were seven. Seven keys can open the
 hugh iron barred doors. Others are
 useless.
 Monday afternoon, Constable Con- lin arrested five lads and prepared to
 put them in the cooler" One of the
 cells, however, was filled with the stills and liquor therein. They must
 be removed decided the constable He went to open the lock. To! and be- nold! There was the lock, a great big Yale lock, turned upside down and in tn entirely different position than when first placed there. He deducted | that someone had entered the cell Quickly reaching for the space be- leath the cot for the hootch contain ITS, he was terrified to find them near y empty Constable Conlin had been await town to destroy the contents of the stills. The order however, had been delayed and it appears that during he lapse of time, someone took ad- vantage of the poor resistance of the lock and sWooped down upon the un- suspecting booze. Several visits had Deen made according to Constable Conlin by the person indulging in he hootch, as the lock had been found turned upside down every time m investigation of the cell was ma de which apparently proves the person made a habit of using a method of his own of inserting locks in. the cell door. An order will undoubtedly be forth coming from the judge today to inn l nediately destroy the troublesome goods that the ghost may walk no more. i McNally Garage Entered. Thieves entered the McNally garage on Whiting street some time after 12 l o'clock last night and early this morn | ing and after diligant search of the | place, made away with two autom O. | bile tires and motor meter. George 1 Bloodgood, proprietor of the garage,
 on entering the place this morning, l found the front door lock had been broken. quick investigation of the interior of the building showed that l two cars had been relieved of each a l tire. One car was the property of .. w. Paametier of 65 Maple street, and
 the other one belonged to James Me Nally. The motor meter had been re- moved from the auto of Richard Dyer
 Nothing else had been stolen and it appears that the burglar or burglars
 knew what they wanted and appar-
 ently took ther time in doing this
 work. This section is not patrolled by the night officer as his beat ends about near the Rogers Bakery on Whiting street. This afforded the robbers plenty of opportunity to work
 unm olested. The authorities will make
 an investigation.
 Opportunity For Nurses.
 Miss Elizabeth Heineman, Visiting
 nurse here, is in receipt of letter from Miss Helen F. Boyd, superin- tendent of the Bridgeport Visiting Nurses Station in regard to oppor-
 tunitiea offered nurses for further
 study of the medical science. The let | ter will be posted in the post office.
 Ita contents explain that Q scholar Iship in the public health and nursing 1 study at Columbia University, will be awarded the best qualified nurse who has at least a high school diploma or one equivalent to that. A slight sum will cover the expenses of tuition l and books with the persons own ex- penses.
 Furthermore, after the course is completed, the nurse will work for 1 one year at the Bridgeport Visiting | Nurse station at a salary of '$110 a
 month. It appears that this is an