Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-05-24
RAYMOND AND LALoNE
NOW IN COUNTY JAIL


fContinued from Page Onel
in the week that, to avoid any possible
technicalities, Chief Justice Wheeler
Of the supreme court may be asked 10
authorize a special session Of the Grim
mai court OF Windham county rather
than TO reconvene the regular April
session.
While It has not been determined, it
IS thought that the trial Of the two nos
torious youths will be in Willimantle
and that Attorney Samuel =. Harvey,
appointed special states attorney 70
handle the case, because OF the illness
of states Attorney Howard c. Brad
ford. viii represent the state ia the
trial. Counsel for the defendants are
John ]. Moynihan, John c. Mahon and
John NJ. Thayer, ali Of Worcester. Ii
IS understood that the Massachusetts
counsel have arranged for the services
of a prominent Connecticut attorney 70
assist them in the trial.
Extradstion Hearing
Lieutenant Ross v. Urquhart Of the
Danielson state police barracks, and
William +. jackson, Investigator for
the states attorneys office. testified at
hearing before Assistant Attorney
General Ralph w. Stearns Of Massa-
chusetts, at Boston, last Thursday,
that they could produce more than a
score of witnesses who will testify that
they saw Raymond and Laloae, the at
legged ice boz" bandits, on the evening
of April 9th, when State Policeman
Nelson was shot in Pomfret They
say that these witnesses will place the
two alleged gunner In Springfield,
Willimantic, Putnam and Dudley. At
ter the hearing Attorney Stearns in
dicated that he would recommend to
Governor Fuller that the men be ex-
/ tradited.
Attorneys John j. Moynihan, John
/ c. Mahoney and Frank b. Hail Tor
Raymond and Attorney John NJ.
+ Thayer for Lalone strongly objected
/ to the issuance of extradiuon papers
on the grounds Of insufficient evidence
that either Lalone or Raymond was in
/ Connecticut or in the car which wit
nesses claim was occupied by two men
who, the Connecticut representatives
claimed, were Lalone and Raymond.
Have Twenty Witnesses
Lieutenant Urquhart and Detective
Jackson said they could produce about
twenty witnesses who saw a WHY'S
Knight automobile, which 1t is alleged
the murderers of Trooper Nelson was
using when he was killed, in various
places in Connecticut, and that it had
been trailed by them through witness
es from Springfield through Connect
cut cities and towns.
The automobile which figures in the
case was owned by Francis Higgins OF
West street, Worcester. and 1t was
stolen in Worcester on the night OF
April 4. Two days later, Motorcycle
Patrolman Raymond Gallagher OF
/ Springfield had a running gun fight
with two men in Springfield who We're
/ in the stolen car Gallagher later
/ identified Raymond and Lalone as the
men and they were arrested in Wor-
vester April 18th and taken to Spring
field.
Around the Circle
The fight took place at about 5.2h
o'clock in the afternoon, and Lieut.
Urquhart and Detective Jackson saic
that the car was seen less than halt
hour later by Rev. Felix O'Neil head
ing away from Springfield. The Off.
GERS also said they had witnesses who
had seen the same automobile in Will
mantle, Pomfret, Putnam and Dudley
where the machine was later found
abandoned.
They produced an affidavit from
Harold Lester, Willimantic gasoline
station attendant, who said the Willys
Knight automobile stopped at his sta.
ton for gasoline and that he called the
attention of the driver to the fact that
the rear window in the automobile was
broken. Lester, who already has iden.
tilted Raymond as the man who bought
the gasoline, said that the driver
avoided conversation about the win
dow.
Seen in Webster
A Worcester man, Rene II. Lange.
win of 26 Cutler street, signed an afii,
davit for the Connecticut police In
which he stated he saw Raymond and
Lalone in a lunch car in Webster or
the night that Trooper Nelson was
murdered Langevin's affidavit placed
Lalone and Raymond at $50 O'Clock
that night. The WHY'S knight car
was found several hours after that In
Dudley, near Webster.
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