Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-11

ft%lcs 11te N as tHdTSeQ MILL lIltDAtC1-5 tion to which he pleaded guilty. Satur
 day evening about, 1O.30 o'clock rest dents of Bridge street heard shouting
 in the grove anG called the police. who found Beruhe staggering around in the [ grove and shouting loudly. His face was bleeding and he was very drunk. Judge 1 Foss imposed a fine of S and costs | amounting to s12s15, which was paid.
 Narrow escapes do not happen in }the |
 movies alene--so MT and Mrs George s.
 Elliott of this city, discovered Saturday |
 afternoon. While returning to this city i from a trip to the Berkshire Hills where they went to leave their daughter for a
 visit with relatives in Adams. Mass, i they encountered, as they were passing along Franklin street, Westdeld, SC were thunderstorm. They found them
 selves in the midst of falling trees,
 branches, poles and overhead wires as the result of the storm. A large tree ] fell directly in the path of their car. The
 top of the tree grazed the hood. twisting it's branches into the fender and around l the bumper. Employes of the street de-
 partment found 1t necessary to saw off l several branches before the Machine 1 could proceed. The damage consisted of a broken and bent fender. broken l headlight, the twisted bumper and many
 scratches on the car body. MT. and Mrs Elliott consider their escape from in- I jury miraculous. They were able to mo- | tor to Springfield, where they passed the ] night with MT. Elliott's sister. The continued case of Albert Randeau, 1 charged with soliciting compensation foV prostitutes, was heard Saturday morning l in the district court at Webster Mass, | with Judge Louis O. Rioncord on the bench. When the case was called Attor- ney TelesDhore LaBouef, counsel for Rom 1 deau informed the court that a plea of guilty would be entered if the sentence 1 would not be more than four months but the prosecution refused to entertain the suggestion.
 Mrs. Annie George IS. who collapsed 1 on the witness stand at the continued ] hearing Thursday, testified that she and her companion, Mae Leonard, one even i ing during the first week in September, l 1921, were met in Webster by Rondeau and taken in an automobile to a point beyond SouthbEidge. The car was stopped in the road where there were fouc men. T Rondeau directed Mrs George to go with two of the men and Mae Leonard with
 the others. At the time he collected
 money from the four men and kept the same
 Alex Cilickass, driver of the jitney which carried Rondeau and the two girls
 
 testified to having been hired by Rondeau ; to take him and the girls on the trip. The attorneys on both sides did not l argue the matter and Judge Rieneord 1 sentenced .Rondeau to six months in the house of correction at Worcester. Mass. The privilege of appealing to the Worees- ter county superior court is sti.l open to Rondeau, but up to late Saturday after noon no such action had been taken. a |
 Saturday morning William s. Congdon, chief of the federal prohibition enforce
 ment squad in eastern Connecticut. and F his men collected all of the spells secured
 in raids in Windham, Holland and New
 London counties during the past ten weeks which had been stored in Norwich, i. New London and Nillimantic. Wilton ! Hoxies truck was used to transport the 7 1 contraband. The collection in this city , was loaded on the truck at o'clock in the morning and when the truck left New
 London shortly after 10 o'clock fGf Smed-
 leys warehouse in New Haven the load . WAS large one The inventory was as follows: p stills of capacity ranging from 5 to 50 gallons, s gallons of alcohol, 60 1, quarts of Canadian Whskey, IS quarts of : wine, quarts of cocktails 1-2 gallons
 of cider brandy, 1-2 gallons of gin, 61 T gallons of moorshine, gallons of cider
 IT bottles of whiskey- -fayoring extracts . bottles of coloring matter, gallons of noiasses and an assortment of articles . connected with the making of illicit
 liquor. Two hundred bottles of Jamaica ginger and beer were destroyed. Godfrey Johnson, sS Summit street i employed by Walter Hibberd, is confined f to the house as result of an injury , Monday.
 i According tq the census of manufac- , turing in Connecticut in 1919, Williman- z tic has 43 plants employing 3.6e5 hands P and the value of the manufactured prod- uct was $92,sS6,5S5.
 Mrs, Joseph A. Binne and daughters. q Phyllis, Elsie and May, left Friday night 2 for Boston and sailed Saturday noon on }. steamer Assyrias of the Cunard line for s their native home in England. The Binns a family has only been in the country two e years and resided in this city during the U greater part of that time Mir. Binn died 7 7 several months ago and Mrs. Binn deeid- ' ed to return to England. to live with rel - atives in Sowersby.
 ,t Mir. and Mrs. George Bedard of Ply. i'd mouth, Mass, who are spending portion [e of their honeymoon at the home of Al lg fred Caron, will leave town today (Afon k. day).
 f. MT. and Mrs. Willard Smith are al It Lake GunaDee, N. H.
 T. Mrs Helen Boss Cummings is enter S taining Miss Louise Campbell of Win ie chester, Mass
 t Mrs. Carrie Kemp of Springfield is wis ae iting at the home of Judge George E
 Hinman. Mrs. Kemp is Mrs Hinman' d aunt.
 n- MT, and Mrs. E. A. Case with Mrs ". Cases mother, Mrs. Burlington, and Mis- ed Virginia Case left Saturday morning b. D. automobile for St. Johns, New Brunswic u- the home of MT. Case.
 Mrs. Thomas McNamara has been en he tertaining her grandson, Francis Dwyel as son of MT. and Mrs Dwyer of Somerville ny Mass MT Dwyer is a Harvard sudden he and returned to Cambridge Saturday t as attend the summer school
 nm Mir and Mrs. Robert H Fenton are en lot tertaining Nr. and Mrs. H. L. Putnam C es St. Petersburg, Fla, who are on thei - way to Houlton, Me. Mrs. Putnam
 Mrs Fenton's sister and formerly taugh
 school here. About two years ago tn