Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-09
publican candidate for congress from the second congressional.

publican candidate for congress from the second congressional
 We present to the electors of the sem atorial district, as the republican can didate for senator, the Honorable Clar- l ence H. Child of Woodstock. and we commend him to the electors as man of broad acquaintance, a man of judicial temperament and splendid ability and unusually well fitted to serve this dis trict in the senate for the term for which he shall be elected. Judge Child was then escorted to the front and there was applause as he was introduced by the chairman. Judge Child said that he appreciated the hon or conferred upon him. He said that the needs of the 18th district were varied as the valley was full of manufacturing industries and there was wide breadth of agriculture with the questions of 1 taxation. schools, good roads, etc. He alluded to the improvement of the hnan- l cial condition of the state and he hop ed that taxation, which became such burden during the war, could be reduc- 1 ed He alluded to WindhaIn county men l holding state offices-State Treasurer G. Harold Gipatric nominated on the state ticket for the third time; John Byrne, state. bank commissioner; Secretary of Agriculture L. H. Healy and Byron D. l Bugbee, memDer or lne state finance 1 committee All, he said, had served i faithfully and well. The nominee said that he realized that with opportunity came responsibility and obligations and he said he felt that responsibility and l that, he would always be willing to list en to any men in the district at any time as the senator is the representative of
 the people of the district. Judge Child 1 closed by again thanking the members
 of. the convention for honoring him. The members of the convention and also to l press representatives were invited to dine at the Putnam inn.
 Two civil actions in which Putnam people are invilved have been filed with
 Edwar M. Warner, clerk of the su- perior court.
 Clarence Hodson & O., of New York, have brought an action against John I Duda of Putnam and also an action | against the Putnam Savings bank in which damages of $4,000 is claimed in 1 each instance The plaintiff alleges that I Duda agreed in writing to purchase bonds from it's agent, Edmund Durant of Putnam. to the amount of s4.0o0 but that after entering into the agreement he
 failed to make the purchase.
 The bank enters into the controversy
 on the allegation that it stopped pay ment on a check for S4.000 made payable
 to the plaintiff for payment of the bonds
 of the First State Pawners Society which
 are the bonds that the plaintiff claims the defendant Duda purchased.
 Thomas Spellacy, democratic nominee for governor, and Edward M. Yeomans, his campaign manager, are counsel for the plaintiff and in the writ issued it is alleged that after a talk with the de- , fendant Duda the plaintiffs agent, Du- rant, obtained his signed agreement to
 take the four thousand dollars worth of
 bonds. It is further alleged that Duda gave his order for this sum on the Put [ nam Savings bank and that the bank , issued it's check on the First National , bank of Putnam in favor of the plain tiff but subsequently, payment was stop f ped by the defendant bank.
 Duda, through his attorney, Ernest c, Morse makes answer and admits talking
 about making a purchase of bonds from the paintiff's agent and admits also that , he signed a certain paper but not oi the character and effect which the plain . tiff claims. He says that on March 2f , 1922, Durnat told him about the bonds : in question and stated that they were readily marketable at "a value of 10t cents on the dollar and that they coult
 be sold at any bank for the face value :, He states further in his answer tha- I he was told by Durant that he coult
 go to the bank and verify the state n ments regarding the value and marketa l, bleness of the bonds and he was givel S a paper by Durant which, he alleges wal :. an agreement to buy the bonds, but tha I the agreement was conditional on thei
 being all that was claimed for then . and that upon inquiry he states that h. n learned that the bonds were not as claim e ed by the agent of the plaintiff and tha
 therefore the representation made b, : the agent was false and that he reliet d on the agents representations as he, Du : da, can not read or write. On learning
 the status of the bonds the defendan T Duda states that he caused the Putnam - Savings bank to stop payment on tn l. check. Mir. Duda alleges that the con
 ditions under which he was to pur e chase the bonds were not fulfilled an h that the alleged agreement was withou e consideration.
 o The bank is represented by Attorne :: J. F. Carpenter.
 a In another action Mrs. Caroline Fish
 CT, S2 years of age, resident of Put e nam Heights is made defendant in d
 action on a note for s2,000 in which tt T plaintiff is Mrs. Annie McGregor ai West Thompson. The plaintiff allege l. that on January IS last she loane le the defendant S2,ODO and that the lat le husband of the defendant, J. Watror C. Fisher, received the money on the not 9s which Mrs. Fisher signed. MT F'ishe I'd died last February
 Mrs. Fisher denies all knowledge T. the note and it is further alleged ths e. the defendant is old and infirm and b
 reason thereof is incapacitated frol
 properly attending to any business ar d if the note was executed the defendant
 signature was procured by fraud LII = due influence or artif1ce without anv oo, W sideration and without the defendan ,d realizing what she was signing or tf rt legal effect thereof.
 st The suit is brought by Judge H. l w Back of Danielson and the defendant ar interests are in the hands of Attorne