New Britain herald., 1924-07-28
Benjamin White Of Pomfret Landing Goes Down Fighting With Shotgun With Which He Murdered Edwin.
Motive for Killing Believed
 to Have Been Opposition
 to Niece's Marriage No Halt in Wedding Plans

Danielson, Conn. July 2s.-Ben-
 jamin White. 80, who yesterday shot and killed his brother Edwin T. White
 72, and wounded his nephew Howard
 White and David Mairson, fiance to his niece Sadie Phyllis White, was shot and killed by one of the members Of posse who were searching for him shortly after noon today. according to word received here. The posse in- cluded several state police from the local barracks. The shooting occurred In the woods near the White farm.
 Dies While Fighting The posse, containing about 30 in all state police and citizens of tho town of Pomfret where yesterdays murder occurred came upon White in 8 clump of bushes. They attempted to surround him when White opened fire on one of the party with a double barreled shotgun, which he took with him into the woods yesterday after staying his brother with 1t.
 State police armed with revolvers and citizen members of the posse with rifles and shot guns immediately open ed fire into the bushes whence came the shot from Whites weapon. White, according to the police reloaded his gun and fired several times before he was struck and fatally wounded by the fusillade of shots from the posse.
 Wedding Plans Continue.
 Coroner Arthur G. Bill of Wind no ,f,- date today for the inquest into the death of Edwin White, who was a former selectman and tax collector of the town. The motive for the shoot ing, which is at present in doubt, will be one of the chief subjects of the ir,- quiry. Mairson, who was engaged to marry Miss White, was not seriously wounded, though several shots from the gun in the hands of the elderly marksman entered his left leg. It was announced following the shooting that the wedding of Mairson and Miss White would take place as planned, next Saturday at the White residence. The wedding will be a simple affair because of the tragedy, elaborate preparations for the event having been cancelled. Invitations will be recalled.
 Objected to Match.
 Police after interviewing members of the family of EdwtS White believe that objection by Benjamin White to his niece's wedding with Mairson may have had something to do with the shooting. It was stated that Benja- min, on trip to Goodyear recently with Charles Grimes, had told the latter that he would use a gun on Mairson because of his objections to the marriage. Benjamin, the broth- CTS family, said, had always been re- yarded as peculiar.
 Mairson is superintendent of build ngs In the Arsenal school at Hart ford, and Miss White is special teacher in the school. Their engage nent is said to have been the culmi- nation of a romance of several years standing.
 Opens Fire With Shotgun.
 Edwin White, his wife, Sadie Phyl- is White, their daughter, Howard White, the son, and Mairson had just 'eturned to their home from a visit in Thompson before the shooting. Ben- amin White was seen about the barn with shotgun. Edwin went out to lee what he was doing and Benjamin fred through the barn window, ths hot striking him in one side and iilling him instantly. Benjamin fterward fired at Howard White. A ew shots struck him but he was not eriously wounded. White fired at iairson from the COW yard back of he barn when Mairson went into the oad to try and discover what had 'ecome of him. After firing at Mair- on, White disappeared into the woods toward Dayville.