Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-11
PUTNAM

Can it be that some Of these who are 1 given to deceit and spite are using the current penchant for distilling as a basis 1 for entering false complaints against 1 persons whom they wish to see raided by | officials, in order to discredit those rajded l and to bring disrepute upon them? This l appears to be the belief of some officials, and one raid conducted just outside of 1 Putnam this week may have been ipsti- ] gated by false and malicious complaint. For many months some officers have believed that among the mass of com. plaints always flowing in are cert&m percentage SAat are" based on malice rather than upon fact, and due care is exercised in investigating them, though erroC is apt to occur at times. It is not l the intention of officials to raid innocent { persons. It is a fact, though, that very 1 large percentage Of the complaints re- ] ceiyed, usually through the mail, are of an anonymous nature. A difficulty that confronts the officers is to sift the real | information from the false and act &C., l cordinsly. Human nature is as mean in sreaks as Is the situation that makes possible the invasion Of the premises of
 innocent persons, but that is the condi-
 tion existing today and it is bound at
 times to result in injury being done to some innocent person. Relative to illicit distilling, 1t appears 1 the indulgence in it on a commercial basis
 is being driven farther out into the coun- | try than was the cule year or two ago.
 The big stills are rarely eyer found now in the more densely populated sections of this county, but out in the back country 1 districts, where the risk of detection or
 "sQuealerS' is less.
 In the death tzIs week in . Woreestee ! hnG a nP Dol.
 l what appears to be the final curtain fell
 upon the unsoiyed mystery of the chiId's
 percentage The infant vas abandoned
 on the night Of Sept , on the doorstep Of a home tn Woodstock, and eventually l vas taken for adoption by MT. and Mrs.
 George Deane, for whom the child was
 named. '',- "
 From the hour the abandoned child was
 found until the present time, net an ink
 ling has ever come as to who left the
 child or from whence it came. Police in- Yestlgared the case and exerted them
 selves to get clues that might lead to the i identity of either one or both Of the par. l baffed '' @'9 l It now seems established that the child was prematurely born. From the time Lit was abandoned, just over two months l ago. it is said never to have given prom | ise Of thriving and developing. and Fe-
 cently became so i'll that it was deemed l best to take it to Worcester hospital for special treatment but even the best
 care the institution afforded failed tof save it's life. 1 While there caa De noeaing better than l cpnjecture as tp where tue child was brought from to the Woodstock home
 where 1t was abandoned, there is a possi- ptlity that it may have been from South i bridge or Webster pr some other Massa- 1 chHsetts point as likely as from this city or some other point hHsabeuts. A led. ! dish hair from a WMpan's head was the only clue that the police hoped at one time might lead te the locating of the mother or of some woman who has guilty
 knoWledge of the a5Sndonment. The l hair was found when the baby was being
 cared tor after being found in Wood stock.
 The following are the aewIy e1eeted oE. 1 fcers of Wolf Den grange of Abingdon: | Master, Leonard Watson overseer, Ir- thur Gallup; lecturer, Mrs. willis Coveu:
 chaplain, Mrs. George HicaSss secretaty,
 Miss Euretta GfoWepor treasrer, Hoy
 ard White ;: steward, Alexander EardihaI :
 assistane steward, Mrs. Peter Jackson Ceres, Miss Nettie Watson; Pofioaa. ! Mrs. Arthur GaIlnp; Flora Mis- Mar 1 garet Geissler ne1her of, executive com
 mttes. Benjamin Headley. | Captain KAnI Delage cid Kf;issx morning that platoon of police viii do escort duty in today,s ebserY anee Of the
 signing of the aTmiaties Thousands will
 reYfeR the parade, starting from Union
 square at ocEeeks as the afternoon will
 be 3 holiday for thousands of empaoyss
 of rnaputacturing plants and for many in
 other industHal lines. {
 This year 1se are entered In the even ling courses at ths State Trade school ii . this city. many Of these being from out | of town. About 25 come twice each wesK