Putnam patriot., 1922-06-09
Stranger Tries to Rob Day,
 Police Look For DeSperadO
PoMFRET TAXI DRIVER ESCAPES WITH LIFE AFTER TussLE-AUTHoRITIE SEARCH FOR MAN
 AccosTING ALBERT PARENT
Strange Mysterious Letter Police Captain Deage Fro
 Trio of Death" Arouses Widespread Interest

The escape of Albert Day. the Pom fret taxi driver. with his fife and mon ey from a desperate who held him up at the point of a gun near Central Village Wednesday evening" the weird story told the police by Albert Parent of Woodstock. to the effect that an unknown man bound and gagged him Memorial Day in Wild wood Park and kept him overnight only to let him go the next morning, and the receipt of a threatening letter Wednesday by Captain of Police Remi Delage, from the trio of death, has stirred this section of the state to a high pitch of excitement. While there
 Is the official opinion that each start ling event has no connection with the other. yet there seems to some a mys- terious connection. if for no other rca- son than that the "trio of death let ter intimated that crooked and un- derhand' work would be perpetrated in this immediate vicinity by members of the gang. While there Is the feel ing that the letter is the work of some playful boy or demented man, and for this reason no stock is taken in it by some. yet events of the past few days have led the state and local po- lice to look into the situation and in vestigate it thoroughly to discover if band of thieves, robbers and muf- derers are really operating in Putnam and vicinity
 II was Wednesday evening that a stranger. about 24 years old, wearing dark suit and cap, approached Al bert Day at the Putnam depot and asked to be driven in Days taxi to Central Village. The two started off and had nearly arrived at their des- zination when the man put q gun Co Mr Days stomach with the demand. Stop your ear. want il"
 orapple. With His Assailsnt
 Instantly sizing up the situation Mir. Day grabbed the hand of the stranger and giving powerful wrench, caused the man to drop the gun, which fell to the ground. When Mr. Day took his hands from the nov ing automobile. 1t shot across the road and ran into a fence.
 But the crash disturbed the occu- pants of the car but little, as they had more serious business to think about at the moment. When the man hat his gun wrenehed from his grip. h. pulled himself free from Mir, Day and quicker than it takes to tell 1t, the man had taken a blackjack from his pocket and struck Mir Day a heavy blow over the ear Though bleeding freely from the wound thus caused, and dazed somewhat, MT, Day got out of the machine and attacked his as- sailant, succeeding in taking the blackiack from him and raining blow after blow on his face, head and body The man, apparently, was done for, and hearing an automobile approach ine, Mir. Day hastened to the roadside to summon help The machine did stop and two men got out to give Ar Day a hand But when they reaehe | the stranded Day car, the man whom Mir. Day believed he had knocked sanseless. was no where to be seen. A search of the immediate viein " failed to disclose his whereabouts and after few moments more of search ing, Mir. Day got into the waiting ma chine and went in search of Sheriff TiIIinghast of Central Village There he told his story and the sheriff went to the scene, starting his inyestIga- tions from that point. The only clue in establishing the identity of the rob- Der Is a cap purchased of the Shum- way Co. of Danielson. which has beer turned over Co the police.
 Mir. Day Treated By Doctor
 Mir. Day had his wounds treated by q Central Village doctor and then drove his own car, damaged as badly as it was, to Danielson, where he placed it in a garage. While in Dan ielson he met William Mansfield cf Putnam. who volunteered to drive MT. Day to his home in Pomfret.
 The police are wondering if the man who attempted to hold up MT. Day Is the same one that attacked Al- bert Parent. IT. of the town of Wood stock. The Parent boy told Caps. Delage that Memorial Day evening he was preparing to leave Wildwood Park for his home and was waiting for his brother Harold to join him. when a stranger. about 30 years old, who wore white trousers. black coat and cap, walked up to him and saddenlv seized him tying a handker-