Putnam patriot., 1924-08-01
PomFRET, SHOCKED BY MUIR DER, ATTENDS FUNERAL
 OF VICTIM
Borriman Sees Murderer
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 To Elijah Berriman of Dayville and Arthur Lec0mbe of Danielsou, is gig- eu the credit for being the first Co see the murderer He was sitting under tree, with the shotgun resting
 cross his knees. They cried out.
 Here he is"
 Immediately there vas great excite Heut Benjamin, who saw the two men, apparently at about the same moment they saw him. raised his gun and fred at them This unmistakable sIan of belieerency and hostileness on Benjamin part, was quickly not cd and one of the state police cried Shoot 10 kill.
 There immediately resounded through the woods the barking of a dozen reyolvers and rifles. Those who Wiei1ed them shot from vantage points, but with their bodies well hid den Most Of them were flat on the ground on their stomaehs.
 l. was not safe to get up for fear 0f being hit bg charge from the siaper's gun or A bullet from re volver or rife fired by one of his pur suers. IL was mo mans land" for sure said one who was there.
 4 moment before the alarm was given by Mir Berriman and Mr. La eombe, Mr. Bodo. pursuing his police dog. passed in front of the murderer, not thirty feet distant. MT. Bodo did not know this until afterward and the slayer did not know it, for undoubtedly he would have fired up- on Mr. Bodo.
 Mr Bodo was warned of his danger by Officer Ross Urquhart of the State Police, who was on the spot, but saw the man. Mir. Bodo dropped to the ground and crawled around the spot where the murderer was sitting Getting around in the rear, Mr. Bodo stood up behind a tree, just in back of where the man still sat, moving slightly. He appeared to have been hit, but there was nothing certain about this.
 Bodo Displays Courage
 However. Mir. Bodo, showing mark ed courage aimed his revolver at the murderer, fired. and at the same in- stant leaped from behind the tree. to the side of the man. MT. BOdo flung the shotgun away after snatch ing it from the hands of the murderer and then Mir Bodo proceeded to hold him. crying out at the same time. 'I'ye got him. I've got him. '
 When the rest of the posse and State Police had appeared, the slayer was still breathing, but 1t was seen that something had happened to him. Henry Tetreault of Putnam assisted others in carrying the man out Of the woods. He died in ten or fifteen minutes, without having said word.
 An examination of his body show cd that three bullets had found their mark in the fusilade, two entering the back and one the hip. Coroner $ B. Overlook, M. D, viewed the body and turned the case over to Medical Examiner Arthur C. Bill of Daniel son. who later gave permission for burial and turned the body over Go an undertaken
 Born In Pomfret
 Edwin TroWhridre White was born iu Tomfret on Dee 2G, lb52. the son Of Louis and Margaret White. He attended the local public schools in the winter time and worked on the farm during the summers, like the other boys of the ncighborhood. Fin izhHHR school, he devoted all his time ta tHe work on the farm A. such he received a through training which proved a big factor in the success he enjoyed during the later yenrs of his life. ehaa he had the respaHsi 7llitie# of q lurge farm and a family t0 sup port
 Soon after his moreiare in Janu=