Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-15
DANIEESON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

Earle ('Gramp) DAVIS, who haS been before the Putnam city court innumer- able times for intoxication, was locked up at the police station Saturday night and was booked to appear before Hiz- honor Monday morning. But Gramp was not present at roll call In fact he did not occupy a cell, Sunday night. It was between five and six o'clock thai the police discovered the cell room emp ty. According to Captain Delage, he, the captain. left the station house about fiye-thirty Sunday evening. He told Da- wis he would send him some cigarettes and a newspaper. Davis was then in the corridor in the cell room. The cap tain stopped at little store on Bridge street and bought the cigarettes but was unable to get the paper He sent an em ployer of the store to the station with the cigarettes Later when the captain returned Davis was gone. The person who took the cigarettes to Davis said he was pacing back and forth in the cell | room. Investigation disclosed that Da- wis had ripped piece of sheet iron from over the door leading from the cell room | to the court room Through this small
 opening he managed to crawl to free
 dom. Davis was before the court a few
 weeks ago and was fined and put on pro- i bation. He is a good worker and steady
 and his employer has appeared several i times in his behalf. His only fault Is getting drunk for which he has spent
 much time in jail. Davis is a quiet, un-
 assuming chap and the last person in the world that the police would con | sider as attempting to escape. He prob | ably realized that as he was on proba-
 tion and had been told that if he ap- peared before the court again he would
 be given a lengthy sentence SO became | J Ee
 found a weak spot in the lookup.
 The Thompson Country club golf play
 CTS came to Putnam Saturday after
 noon and for the second time this sea-
 son were beaten by the players of the ! Putnam Country club. The score was 22 to 2s. It rained all the afternoon
 but the real dyed-in-the-wooI golfers fin ished the IS holes. Others not fast ] dyed' quit at the end of the first. round
 On this account the Thompson club has requested another match with Putnam
 and the club will be accommodated. Af-
 ter play the hot lunch of coffee, frank furters and cake served by Mrs. Thomas H. Decoudres and her two daughters
 was appreciated by the rain-soaked players The result of the match was
 as follows:
 Thompson-Demming 1-2. Lemon 0.
 Klats o, Livingston 0, Klats O., Ream
 1-2, Hutchins 1-2, Olney 3, Bowen 0 Decker 1-2, Backus 0, Lemon 1, Jacobs
 O. Paine 0. Total 6.
 Putnam-BannigaR 1-2, Bankart 1, Chamberlin 1, Cogswell 1, Cotter 1, Dear
 1-2. Gaunt 1-2, Hughes Q, Johnson 3 Mackey 1-2, MuIlalley 3, Rafferty 0, c Thayer 3, W. Wheaton 1. Total 22. Next Saturday the Putnam. team vii go to Woonsocket for return match Putnam every season. The Rubber City
 team has been here this year and tool . home the first game. While the Put nam team is making no excuses. it i
 only fair to say that some of the bes
 players in the club are unable to leay, their business for Saturday afternoon
 play.
 A raiding party headed by Captab l Reme Delage and all the police excep e the regular night officers started out O ! Saturday evening, carrying four searcl . warrants. The party divided and in T short time the raids were over. Onl,
 one raid resulted in favor of the off cers. At the home of Adolph Bernier . Woodstock avenue the raiders founC four bottles of whiskey. The liquor wa seized and Berner was taken into GUS ! tody. He maintained his innocence fo some time. saying that he had neve sold a drop. Later he had change Q heart and Monday morning was fined ! hundred dollars and costs. He als,