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NEW CANAAN.
Eugene Ingersoll is seriously ill with
the M. E. Church, will deliver his last
sermon here on Sunday.
AMother Goose entertainment was
held at the C( ngregational Church last.
evening, and was a decided success.
—New Canaan people should make a
visit to the granite works of James Sex-
ton & Son, at Bridgeport. and see the
great bargains they are offering in mon-
uments. » ,
Samuel E. Harris Lodge of Bridge-
port, has sent an invitation to Wooster
Lodge to pay a fraternal visit to the
lodge and witness the working of the
third degree on the last Monday in
April. ‘
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EAST NORWALK.
Orson Raymond contemplates going
west.
Miss Lottie Coleman is visiting friends
in Fall River. Mass.
The Junior League’s postponed meet-
DARIEN.
Edward Hindlev is quite ill.
——After 26 years of, successful busi-
ness, James Sexton & Son are going to
dispose of their vast stock of monu-
ments for just 50 cents on the dollar.
One of the women patients at Dr.
Ki‘ndred’s Sanitarium hung herself yes-
terday morning. Medical Examiner
French Was notified and viewed the
remains.
There is considerable excitement in
town over the new fire apparatus.
Miss Lulu St. John is quite ilLat her
home.
Rev. Mr. Utley will preach his fare-
well sermon Sunday eveuihg, giving his
views of Darien. The sermon promises
V to be interesting.
The Epworth League of the M, E.
church exetended an invitation to the
Y. P. S. C. E. of Darien and Newton
and the Epworth‘ League of Rowayton,
to attend a supper and reception given
in the M. E. church in honor of Rev.
and Mrs. Carroll, Thursday afternoon
Rev. W. S. Rafter of Darien has
rented Harvey Ackart’s new house in
St. J ohmAvenue, from April 1, and will
move his boy’sschool from Darien at
that time.
I iMrs. M. M. Guider will celebrate her
birthday on Tuesday evening m xt.
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SILVER MINE.
A socialle will he held at Guthrie’s
hall, this evening. It is expected that
a number of Norwalk people will attend.
—James Sexton & Son have 300 beau-
tiful monuments and headstones that
they are selling out at just 50 cents on
List of Patents issued from the U. S.
Patent Office, Tuesday, March 24th,
1896, for the State of Connecticut, fur-
nished us from the ofhce of Earle&
Seymour, Solicitors of Patents, 868
Chapel street, N eW'Haven. '
E. S. Breed, New Britain, assignor
to J. A. Brill, Phila., Pa , means for
supporting motors and motor-frames.
G. W. Brown, West Winsted, harness
pad.
C. S. Chalice. Derby and W. H.
Moore, New Haven, assignors of one-
third to J. Peterson, Derby, cmtain
pole.
Paul Gebhard, assignor of one-half
to E. Lefling, New Haven, deVice for
branding cigars.
W. G. Homan, assignor to E. ‘ Miller
&. Co., Meriden, air distributor for
central-draft lamps.
E. I. Pyle, Bridgeport, safety attach-
ment for elevators.
R. T. Shelley,
lock. ,
F. S. Smith, 'assignor to himself and
F. C. Rockwell, Hartford, trolley at-
tachment for electric cars,
New Haven, trunk
THELINugi'PuzLi.
ittle Progress, Being Made In the
Philadelphia Mystery.
BOTH INHALED SOME DRUG.
Ono Theory That the Man Killed Anna
McGrath and Failed In His Effort to
Commit Suicide—The Girl “’33
Engaged to Be hiarried.
PHILADELPHIA, March 27. ——The mystery
don, the rich coal operator, has been some-
what lessened. It is certain now that the
girl died from the inhalation of some pow-
erful drug, and the only question which
the police are trying to solve is whether
Langdon and she agreed to commit suicide
together, or whether Langdon murdered
her and then failed in an attempt to kill
himself.
' This question will be answorcd by Dr.
Henry Lefimann, into whose expert hands
the vital organs of the dead girl have been
given for analysis. Dr. Leffmann said
yesterday that he would not have his re-
port ready until next Monday.
The police found several bottles in the
bedroom of the Girard avenue house, some
of them without labels. One was half full
of chloroform, which had been purchased
at a drug store at the corner of Twenty-
ninth street and Girard avenue. These
bottles and the tow'cl which had been
placed over the dead girl’s face were taken
possession of by Mr. Geyer of the detective
department.
The girl’s lips were slightly burned
with some irritant poison, which may or
may not have been chloroform. The win
dows of the room had been opened wide,
and when the officers and physicians ar-
cxoset nung ner new searsxin sack. and
in the pocket was a purse containing $110
in bills and some small change. Other
dresses belonging to her were scattered
’ about. and the police are authority for the
statement that they were all of good ma-
terial.
All these things led the authorities to
believe that either the two attempted sui-
cide together or that Langdon drugged the
.girl to death and then tried the same dose
on himself. :Anna died between noon
and 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, and
for 24 hours after the-latter time Langdon
same room. The drug which killed his
companion only stupefied him, and when
he recovered partially from its effects he
made his way to the open air. He had
Dr. Thomas H. Andrews, the police
surgeon, says Lnngdon is ill and that his
illness is such as would result from the
inhalation of the fumes of a drug. His
lips and tongue are blistered as though
they had been burned with some acid.
The police in working up the- matter
havé learned that Anna McGrath met
Langdon in January, 1895. and a few
weeks later told her parents of the meet-
ing. ‘ He called frequently at her home,
and among her family he was considered
a suitor for her hand. At that ‘ time she
was engaged to be married to a young
man named Fitzsimmons. and no breath
of scandal had ever touched her name.
She had regular employment in the deliv-
ery department of a dry goods store on
Chestnut street and was a favored visitor
in the neighbors’ houses.
engagement with Fitzsimmons, and after
that there were nights when she did not
come home. She told her parents that she
was visiting friends. The girl’s only in-
timates were her sister Effie and Addie
Grifl‘iths, who lives half a block ‘from the
McGrath home. She told them repeatedly
during the winter that Langdon was in
love with her, and that he was 'going to
lay in a semicomatose condition in the.
During the summer she broke off her'
printed. The last, dated on the 21st inst. i
was from Raleigh. They were all type-Y
written on brown paper and were couched
In the most extravagantly affectionate
terms. The girl . who wrote them used
capital letters to say that she loved Lang-
:ion, and it was evident that she expected
to meet him somewhere in the near future.
The girl is evidently a typewriter in the
office of a coal firm in the south, for she
used their business envelopes.
Effie McGrath. the dead girl’s sister,
and Addie Griffiths, her closest friend,
said today that Langdon was devoted in
his attentions to Anna. He gave her val-
uable presents, diamonds, clothes and
personal ornaments of all sorts. It was
the common talk of the neighborhood that
they were to be married. and it is generally
believed by the neighbors that Langdon
killed the girl and tried to kill himself
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pneumonia. HE’me’ Burcm'd has ”fled from the dollar. surrounding the death of Anna McGrath. ”:1" reggverg‘llllmm “51w“? .Whe” “"fo when she told him that their relations
Rev E. F. Kastendieck', pastor 0‘ Darlen to East Norwalk- _-_._‘-»_~___ In the house at 2926 Girard avenue. where 9 fit. 5 S m a“ 9' ””9 "r9390“ 6 must cease. Miss Griffiths said: ,
.1 List of Patents. she passed as the wife of Samuel 1?. Lung con ion. Langdon I! In. “During the last few weeks Anna said
a number of times. ‘I’m going to surprise
you all some day.’ What she meant I
don’t know, but I thought she meant she
was going to marry Mr. Langdon. I saw
her several times last week, and on Satur-
day afternoon we met and went down
town together. Anna had been bothered
with a toothache for a couple of days. and
she said she was going to get some chloro-
form for it, as that was the only thing
that would help it. , .
“We went into a drug store on Chestnut
street, but failed to get the chloroform. I
don’t remember what the clerk said—that
they were just out of it, I guess. Annie
said she could get it of a young dental
student whom she knew and who filled
her teeth some time before. Whether she
finally got it or not I don’t know. This
was on Saturday afternoon.”
BDISON’S LATEST.
An Apparatur \‘Vhich Will Enable Sur-
geons to See Into the Human Body.
NEW YORK, March 27.—Thomas A. Ed-
ison has perfected his portable apparatus
which will enable surgeons readily to lo-
cate injuries of the bones and the presence
of certain foreign substances in the limbs
of patients by means of the X rays. Mr.
. . . . ' .Rev.aners.Requaof R L T t Wt ~t liti h d h 1 d
0 held this afternoon. and evening . . . oque , capo: , e (c r c marry er an s e sxowe them the
mg is hem” . . h Norton were present in ' the afternoon, connector. _ . handsome rings he had given her. Edisgéilfiiastpeen ngkingfattthiiapparlatus
—A chance of a lifetime to pure ass a also How and Mrs. Austin and Rev. Mr. H, W. Wilcox, Winsted, neck-yoke. Last Saturday afternoon Annie was in aim d t8 {118' 3 3i (in 8 five een
monument to mark the last resting DESIGNS her home, on Gratz street, and was not in e a an ncrease e oencyo vacuum
tubes and a better fluorescing screen than
place of your deceased friends.
After a two months’ visit with Mr.
and Mrs. D. A. Rose, Mrs. Elizabeth
Butcher has returned to her home in
Brooklyn.
.
BROAD RIVER.
. Miss Lizzie Elle, daughter of James
E. Ells, is quite ill.
—Beautiful sarcophagus monuments
selling at 3100. Give James Sexton Sc
Son a call and see them.
Rev. J. Gurnsey, the boy’ preacher,
will preach in the chapel Sunday morn-
ing at 10:30 o’clock. This will be the
last opportunity to hear Mr. Gurnsey as
he soon leaves for college.
annually.
-—If you. want a beautiful memorial
for your cemetery plot, visit James Sex-
ton & Son, where they are selling goods
at 50 cents on the dollar.
Carroll’s son, Judge Carroll of Bridge-
port. Supper was served from 5 until 7
and the tables were bountifully loaded
with good things. At 8 o’clock a very
pleasant program was rendered, and
Mr. C. E. Louhsbury in behalf of
the congregation and friends, presented
Rev. and Mrs. Carroll with a beautiful
clock. Rev. .Mr. Carroll responded in
a befitting manner, ,
ROWAYTON.
—Auy granite firm that have a record
of erecting over 20,000 memorials, as
has the James Sexton Jr Son, is a suffi-
cient guarantee.
The Junior League meets in. the M.
E. church chapel this afternoon.
§;Miss Emma Bile is. expected home
from her trip to California next month.
A Special meeting of the official board
of the First Methodist Episcopal church
will be held to-morrow night, to pre-
pare for the conference year.
W. N. Beardsley, Bridgeport, assign-
or to M. Harily and M. Graham, New
York, wall-support for bicycles.
E. R. Ives, Bridgepcrt, toy-cap ex-
ploder.
Fairfield to. savings Bank.
DIVIDEND NOTICE.
NORWALK, MARCH 19, 1896..
Qeflhscgmtlba Bee the...“ this
day declared a dividend at the .rate 3!
four per cent per annum, to be creditfii
to depositors April 1st, and payable
April 10th, 1896.
A. H. CAMP,
Acting Sec’y andfl‘reas.
Advertise
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she had been previously engaged.
ANNA M’CRATH.
rived there was no'odor of that particular
drug in the air. The only thing certain
was that her pursued lips had either
breathed in or swallowed a poison which
24 hours before had caused her death.
The body was fully dressed and in good
condition.
Lang‘don had taken from the girl most
of her jewelry, but left a small ruby ring
belonging to her sister and the solitaire
diamond given to her by the man to whom
In a
4 good spirits. Miss Griffiths and her sister
Effie Were with her. and she said to them,
the only persons who had her confidence,
that Langdon was to meet her that
night. He was returning, she said, from
atrip to the south and had engaged to
meet her somewhere. She was rallied by
her companions about being dispirited on
the return of her lover, and she retorted
hotly:
“I’m not going to have anything more
to do with him I’ll tell him when I see
him tonight that I won’t keep his com-
pany any more. I wish I had never bro-
ken myengagement with Fred.” Then
she cried.
One of the discoveries that the police
have made goes to show that Anna Mo
Grath was not the only girl with n II’Il)‘.
Langdon was on intimate terms. Th
mail they secured at his office in the an
rard building was of a purely human
character, and they accidentally found I: ~
that he was in the habit of securing p3:
vate epistles through a box in the pa
office. This box was numbered 11:5.
be rented it in his own name. '12.- a.
tectives rifled it, and they secured u... ,-
interesting epistles. ,
Another of Langdon’s Flames.
There were several letters from a ,r: "3
I North Carolina whose namii need r
the barium platinocyanide one used by
Roentgen.» He found that when the X
rays were cast on a screen covered with
tungstate of calcium 3 very marked fluor-
escence took place.
His new apparatus, which is designed
for general use by surgeons, consists of a
vacuum tube, with a battery: induction
coil and mercury air‘pump compactly ar-
ranged in a box. Then there is a screen
covered with tungstate of calcium, so ar-
ranged that it can be fastened over the
eyes of the operating surgeon.
In working the surgeon will place the
portion of the body to be examined over
the vacuum tube. The X rays generated
in the tube will pass through the fleshy
portions, and on reaching the screen be-
fore the operator’s eyes fluoresce. Such
portions of the screen as are unaffected by
the X rays will give an accurate outline
picture of the bones or of any substance in
the body that is impervious to the X ray.
Thus the surgeon can locate fractures and
foreign substances quickly, and without
the tedious process of making a shadow-
graph. The device is an ingenious one
and will doubtless find a large field of use-
W'eatlier Forecast.
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in lhe Purchase of
We must Sell practically all of our Immense Stock be-
fore May I, l896, to save the expense of remov-
ing the same, as the Railroad Company has
purchased the land for their right
of way, and we must vacate.
Our Work will Speak for Itself.
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