Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-04
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

Progress was made, but few matters | disposed of in the superior court here Tuesday afternoon, following the opening | of the October term, criminal side, Judge John w Banks presiding. Rev. J. E. Stoddard of the Baptist church made the opening prayer
 The majority of those who were put to plea entered pleas of not guilty and inva- riably expressed their preference for a trial by jury rather than by the court.
 The one person to receive a sentence during the afternoon was Roger Lange- win, 24, of Everett, Mass. He first en- tered plea of not guilty to 8 charge of bigamy, but after recess changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to serve one year in the county jail at Brooklyn.
 Langevin is the young man who gave this city a sensation during the early part of September by an attempted elopement with Virginia Mildred kelliFer, pretty miss whose home is here.
 The girl having disappeared from her home. leaving note saying she should not be expected in the near future, sus- picion of her relatives that she had de- parted with Langevin led to a complaint being made to the police. Quick action on the part of the Putnam police resulted in locating the couple seated in the union railroad station at Worcester.
 They were returned here and Langevin placed under arrest. The situation was adjusted through arrangements for marriage of the pair, and this having 1 been consummated the couple left for 1 wedding trip. In the meantime informa- 1 ton that Langevin has a wife in Everett
 came to the attention of the police and he | was re-arrested, presented in the city | court and bound over to answer to 8
 charge of bigamy
 He is an ex-service han, it was repre- 1 sented in court, and is said to have had
 a good record prior to his local adventure ending so disastrously.
 John McManus of Ki1lingly and New
 Haven was presented to answer to a charge of theft of clothing, revolver and money from his father-in-iaw and his
 brother-ln-law, John F. Stone and Albert s. Stone of Elmville, on Aug. 3. He was arrested by the New Haven police upon a
 request from Danielson and brought back
 to Windham county by a member of the
 state police force. He pleaded not guilty.
 Another plea of not guilty to charges
 that, on Aug. 10, he had committed a breach of the peace and had attempted !. rape upon 8 girl 15 years of age in the . town of Thompson, was entered by Mi
 chaeI Carroll.
 Not guilty also was tho plea of Stanley
 Novak of Goodyear, charged with having fired revolver at and wounded Theodore i, Robitaille at Moosup on the morning oi
 Sept. 4. Progress might have been made 1, with this case excepting for the fact that
 difficulty was experienced in getting al
 interpreter. Novak does not trust hi! , English for court usages and wanted
 someone as an interpreter who speak. . both English and Polish.
 John Hodick, 3S, of willimantic, wa prompt in his plea of not guilty t, charges that he had abandoned his wifi .. and child on July of this year and co ? habited with another woman.
 , Alphonse Dextras. 19, charged wit breaking and entering a plool room il Y Moosup and with stealing cigars, ciga- {, cites and money therefrom, pleaded no :. guilty. A plea of guilty was expecte - after a conference between counsel in tn S case but Dextras baked when he wa t given an opportunity to change his pie; le so the case likely will go to trial. @ Henry Breault, 2S, of this city, pleade l, guilty to a charge of statutory burglar. k With his brother Wilfred, 1t was explain ,s ed to the court, he had been arrested i r. Rhode Island after breaking into the raj n road passenger station at Oneco and late r. into a store across the border in Rhod
 Island. where the youths were arreste y and later severely punished
 IS In view of this fact, the court sentenc '- in this state was year in jail for Henr,
 the same as with Everett, and executio ct of the sentence suspended, Attorne ,e Charles L. Torrey being appointed {