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“Equal and Exact Justice to all Men of Whatever EState 0r Persuasion, Religiotos or Political.”—Jqfersolz~

 

 

 

 

 

Vol. 1, No. 96.

N orwalk Conn, Thursday Evening, May 7,189].

Price One Cent.

 

The Daily Suzette
Is issued every week-day at 3 P. M., at 1
ONE CENT PER COPY.
The Cheapest Rates for Advertising. and
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION.

The Weekly Gazette,

[Combined with Saturday’s DailyJ
IsZissued every Saturday at Noon, at
THREE CENTS PER COPY. on $1.50 PER YEAR.

The Daily and Weekly.

Ser red to Local Subscribms at
ten CENTS PER WEEK, on $5. 00 PER YEAR.
A. H. BYINGroN. Proprietor.

 

0 UR J OBBIN G DEPARTMENT.

MB. HAnnx M. GARDNER, J R of New York,
has charge‘ of the GAZETTE s Engraving, Book
11d Jobbing Department. He is an expert
and experienced Job Printer, and no work en-
trusted to him will be unsatisfactorilv done.

 

 

This paper has the largest circulation of
any paper in the State west ofBridgcport.

TO OUR ADVERTISERS.

To insure changes being made in advertise-
ments running in this paper the same must be
handed' 1n not later than" 1 p. m on the pi eced-

ng d 11'.

THE LIVE NEWS OF TO- DAY.

See adv. gardener wanted.

 

 

 

 

 

—Boners Wanted—Apply at the Cor-
set Factory of ROTH & Gonpscnmnr.
96- 3t

County Commissioner Geo. TV. Olm-
stead was flying around town this
morning.

 

Rector Watkins is to preach at Grace
church this evening. Services to com-
mence at 7:30.

The furniture of Rev. F. E. Robbins,
the new Baptist minister, arrived here
this morning.

Letter Carrier Healey is off on a four
days’ vacation. He will stay over Sun-
day in Long Island City.

Miss Belle Curry late of New Haven,
was in town to-day visiting friends.
She was en route for Danbury.

There are about seventy-five pupils
at Col. Robert’s Military Institute at
present, of whom sixty are boarders.

Miss Minnie Lockwood has returned
from Tremont, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs.
Whitman P. Halleck accompanying
her.

The new paper company. occupying
the James menufactory building is
now making daily shipments to New
York. __ _

The ,joint committee on Memorial
Day observance is hard at work pre-
paring for an event which bids fair to
be noteworthy. _-__"__

Particular men should read F. Ko-
cour’s advertisement in today’s issue.
Mr. Kocour is an artist in the tailoring
line and knows how to please.

“Billy Buxton went by the office of
the DAILY GAZETTE early this morning
with three monster drummer trunks,
each one bigger than a bale of hay.

The 182d annual meeting of the Gen-
eral Association of Congregational
Ministers of Connecticut, will be held
at the First church in New London on
the 16th of June.

Mrs. Charles F. Osborn, Miss Anna
B. Smith and Miss Gertrude Peck,went
to, Stamford to-day, to attend the con-
secration ceremonies of the Governor
Miner Memorial chapel, (St. Luke’s.)

In May, there is always the old time
‘apple blossom” and “sheep” storm,
which usually is noted by cold storms
of rain and snow. The past few days
would serve for either, of the dry kind.

 

 

Plumber Burritt has a force of work-
men engaged in a thorough overhaul-
ing of the Winslow place, Westport,
prior to its conversion into an Inebri-
ate hospital and reformatorv. ,

Miss May Adams who has been sick
for several weeks at her home on Or-
chard street, does not seem to gain in
health. She is a sister of ex-Mayor
Adams of South Norwalk.

Thomas Moore, arrested yesterday
by Ofiicers Gormley and Morehouse,
was arraigned this morning before J us-
tice Coolidge charged with drunken-
ness and begging. He was given 31 and
costs.

The recount in Norwich shows only
233 ballots for Morris. The unofficial
count last fall gave him 276 votes. On
the recount Morris’ net loss is 44 votes.
In Bloomfield Morris received 2 more
votesthan at the count last fall.

H. W. Gilbert of SuperiOr, Wiscon-
sin, president of the Gilbert-Arnold
Land Company, has been visiting
friends in Wilton. Mr. Gilbert has a
gilt-edged opinion of Ed. Banks, for-
merly of Norwalk, the city surveyor of
Superior.

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Mrs. M. D. Clark, of Wilton, is vis-
iting with her daughter Mrs. J. T. Hub-
bell, No. 5 Quintard Place.

Mrs. William R. Smith and daughter
have returned from their winter’s so-
journ in Florida, and are again at home

3” at No. 29 West avenue.

The registration of dogs at the town
clerk’s office proceeds very slowly, al-
though there are, presumably, at least
five hundred yet to hear from.

George Hoyt, a mason, fell from the
top of Charles Benedict’s house on
Cherry street, New Canaan, yesterday,
and sustained severe and it is feared,
fatal injur ies.

The lawn tennis court was the thea-
he of unusual interest last evening.
The huge steam roller was employed
to run up and down its smooth and
level surface, to pack it down to the
hardness of a board floor, awork in
which it effectually succeeded.

——BICYGLES—The Lovell Diamond
Ball bearings, $85, at Louis Potter’s 6
Wall street. 95—1w

We have it on the authority of a
friend of the interested parties that
Mr. Samuel Morehouse, son of Consta-
ble Morehouse, is to wed Miss Kate
Burtis this month, and that nextmonth
Miss Burtis’s sister Annie is to wed
Mr. James Hanford, of East Norwalk.

—Try the National Steam Dye House.
Nickerson & Betts agents. E. R.
Sherwood General Agent. 94tf.

Last evening the T. U. C. and gen-
tlemen friends to the number of eigh-
teen, gave Miss Ida Mosher a surprise
party. Games and music were indulged
in until 11 o’clock, when a fine collation
was served, after which games were re-
sumed until midnight.

Should there be anything in the
house furnishing line you are in need
of, go to H. H. Williams,15 Wall street,
as that is the place where you can find
almost any article you are looking for;
whether in tin, wood, china, glass or

earthen. ware you~eanfindsitthere at »

lowest pr ices.

W. H. Lockwood will give “Gossip
J r.” his first real track exercise of the
season to-day. His best time is record-
ed as 2.13%, but it is believed he can do
still better in the near future. Mr.
Lockwood went to Dorlon’s Point to-
day after another horse,_ and every
stall in'his stables is now occupied.

Mr. J. B. Ells, who is acting for par-
ties making a very superior quality of
India- rubber hose, makes the sensible
suggestion that no purchases be made
until bids are advertised for and awards
made to the lowest bidder, the quality
of hose to be considered and deter?
mined by experts.

A letter received from Dr. Bridges,

,states that he should start for home to-

day. He was not quite certain whether
he would come by rail or take steamer
from Savannah. He was quite home-
sick and was resolved to remain south
no longer, although friends advised
him not to return too soon.

The new 250 horse power engine at
the Electric Light plant was not started
up yesterday, but will be this after-
noon. The tests, under supervision of
a mechanic from Auburn, N. Y., will
be thorough and are likely to continue
through the afternoon. If everything
goes off satisfactorily the engine will
do its first work for Norwalk to-night.

Dann’s car load of New York state
horses, reached South Norwalk this
morning, where they were unloaded
and brought up to the Bridge. They
comprise a careful selection of the
finest animals that could be found in
the region most noted for'raising blood-
ed horse stock of the best quality, and
it will well repay one to visit Dann’s
stable to see them.

Miss Helen Francis Van Alstyne of
Norwich and C. A. Jehnston of this
City were married at Norwich yester-
day afternoon.—[Hartford Telegram.

“N orwalk” would answer better.
Such slips of reporter or compositor,
if persisted in, will cause the South
Norwalk Sentinel to vigorously dislike
you Mr Telegram, especially if the
wide awake citizens of that thrifty lit—
tle city insist on buying a greater num.-
ber of your papers than of his.

In its new dress and with its changes
for the better in general makeup, the
Rockville Journal has become one of
the prettiest and best weeklies in the
state. Its new editor, Mr. Chester D.
Fiske has already stamped his indivi-
duality upon Rockville and its highly
esteemed newspaper mirror, and an
appreciative co- ~worker feels justified
in saying that in securing Mr. Fisk
Rockville has, at once, a fir—st class
citizen and an A 1 newspaper man.

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called on the Norwalk National Banks
for a statement of their condition on
May 4th.

Among the late arrivals at the N01:
walk hotel are Levi Cofren andF. L
Veasey, Boston; Samuel _L Magic, Mrs
C. B. DeKlyn, George E. Curtis, H.
C. Smith and C. R. Bean, New York";
E. B. Silliman, Bridgeport.

Leading ladies in New Haven are
giving amateur renditions of good, old
Pinafore. Bunnell is to give it to the

one win fame and fortune by giving it

again in old Norwalk. 9 . _ ,1;
-:£.

 

The will of the late Samuel H. Barnes
of Wilton, bequeaths ‘51-, 000 to his wid-
ow in addition to an ante-nuptial settle:
ment, devises his homesteadtoBradley
Gorham, a son of Nelson B. Gorham,
and the balance of his estate goes to five
of his nephews. ___ _ ‘

Harry Sadia, the Hungarian who was
run over by the Housatonic train at
South Norwalk, while walking on the
track, yesterday morning, had his foot
amputated above the ankle, at the
Bridgeport hospital, yesterday after-
noon.

——BICYCLE STOLEN—And a suitable
reward ofi‘ered f01 its 1ecovery. A bi.-
cycle was stolen Wednesday night from
the front stoop of a house on Main
street. A suitable reward will be paid
for its return to Dr. Winfield H. Bald;
win,‘04 Wall street. 96tf

In the case of the indicted dneCtors
of the New York, .New Haven and
Hartford Railroad company Judge Van‘
Brunt, of New York, yesterday, filed a
decision finding that the motion of
counsel to set aside counts5 and in-
the indictment should be granted.

The contracts fOr the Childrens’:
Home were awarded, yesterday. The
carpenter work was given to M. D.
Randall, of East Norwalk, and the ma-
sonry work to Edgar \Villis, of New
Canaan.~ The Home will be constructed
according to the Oliginal plans, and
work will be commenced at once.

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Spaulding has infoi med the collector of
customs at Bridgeport, Conn, that a
special deputy can make appraisements
only in case of the absence or disability
of the collector, and that, therefore, the
duty imposed by law upOn the collector
in regard to appraisements cannot be
permanently delegated.

_ -_i.

In speaking of Miss Ada Dyas’ ren-
dition of the character of Mrs. Sea-
brook, in Captain Swift,the Pittsburgh
Dispatch pays that accomplished lady
the following compliment: “There is
no reason why Mrs. Seabrook, the
mother of Captain Swift. should. not
command our pity and respect, but as
Miss Ada Dyas embodies the character,
its positive demand upon our sympa-
thies is simply irresistible. It is an ex-
quisite type of the high-born woman
that Miss Dyas presents; a woman of
acute sensibility and refinement, whose
maternal instinct triumphs over every
conventional claim the world, caste and
family pride prefer, even though it
bring the bitterness of shame in the
sight of which death loses its sting. In
all the niceties of by-play and facial ex-
pression“ as well as in the grander
strokes ofdramatic action Miss Dyas
showed her wonted mastery of art.”

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FINANCIAL AND CORIDIERCIAL.

Closing Quotations of the New York Stock
_ Exchange.

NEW YORK, May 6 —-Money on call loaned at
easy rates—vim, 39g@4 per cent. Exchange
steady; posted rates, $4. 86@4. 90; actual rates,
$4. 85y4@4. 85% for sixty days and 54. 8834694. 89 for

I demand. Goveinments quiet; currency 65, 1111

bid; 4%, coupon, 12054 bid; 4%5, do. 101 bid.

The stock market was dull and featureless to-
day. In the early trading the tone was firm
and there was a slight show of strength, but it

to sell some of the leading speculatives. Dur-
ing the remainder of the morning prices grad-
ually declined, and at noon were fractionally
below those of yesterday iii most cases, and the
decline was even more pronounced in some
stocks. The principal trading was in Wheel
ing, Lake Erie, St. Paul, Chicago Gas, Union
Pacific, Louisville and Nashville, Northern Pa.-
Cific p1 efei red, Atchison, Burlington and Rock

Island. At the close the man ket was dull. The
sales amounted to 128, 000 she: es.

Closing prices:
West. Union Tel. . 82 Del. & Hudson. . . .135
Adams Express. . .147 Del., Lack. & W. .137%
U S. Express ..... 63 Denver ............ 1854
C., (3.. C. & I ...... 65% Erie ...... z ......... 21%
N. Y. Central” .10234 Lake Shore. ‘. ..... 111
Illinois Central” 100 Northwest ........ 110
Northern Pacific” 27% Do., pref .......... 136
Do., pref .......... 71% Pacific Mall ....... 38
Central Pacific. .. 31 Reading .......... '.
Union Pacific..... 50 St. Paul....‘ ....... 64%
Missouri Pacific . . 71%; Wabash ........... 11 "
Texas Pacific ...... 14% Bur.& Quincy, . . 89%
Alton & T. H ..... 34 010. Ky 12: Nan. .76}4
Canada Southern. 511,5 Oro. <51: Trans ......
Canada Pacific... . 78% Rich. 6:: Terminal. 17%

N. Y. & N. E ..... 38% S .‘1gal Trust ....... —
General Markets. "

NEW YORK, May 6. —FLOUR—Dull and. weak:
city mill extras, $5@5. 40 for West Indies; 311'
per fine, $3. 60@4. 35; fine, 83. 15@3. 15; Minnesota
ext1a,[email protected].

WHEAT— Opened strong, and in the early
trading prices advanced 1%0. From this the:
was a reaction of age by noon, receipts, 100,81
bushels; shipments, 15, 652 bushels; No.2 rt
winter, 9,51 141/4 cash; do. ., May, $1. 11%; do.,

 

June, SJ. 10,14; 60., July. $1. 07%; do. August,
51. 05V. ., . 1

The“ Controller of the currencyihas

people of Bridgeport. Why won’t some .'

'A-

'- is his wont, rode his wheel
' placed on the front stoop and entered

soon disappeared when an attempt was made 1

WHAT MISS SPINSTEB SAYS.
That Miss Woodward of Elm street

. is visiting relatives at Waterbury

That Mrs. Walter Hall carried ofi' a , ‘
5:? by the Flames

large share of the boilers of the concert
at South Norwalk Tuesday evening.‘ '

That Mrs. Helen Fauntleroy is in
New Jersey for a short visit. ,

\That Miss Eva Cape is at Judge
Woodward’s. _

That it is hinted across the water
that there is to be a. return to white
hosiery. It is to be hoped strapped
slippers will not accompany these col-
orless stockings as they once didf" In
that case life would be‘ hardly worth

 

' living.

That the new Suede gloves are made
sweet and attractive with orris root.

That loose fitting gloves are the latest.
That simplicity in dress will firevail

‘in the street though magnificence runs

riot everywhere else. One sees very
little of it as yet, but if you should meet
a woman in a straight plain little chev-

iot, a quiet bonnct and sensible mason--
line-looking gloves, you; must rememe.

her that that woman is the swell of the
promenade, and that her gay sister in
silken gorgeousness, is not ‘ ‘in it” at all.

That the rage f01 gold has brought
the gold gauze veil to the fore. Its-

popularity should be limited to women -

who are young, whose complexions are
above reproach.
. That the newest parasols are creations
indeed, things of lace and silk which
would defy Old Sol to make even a
plain face anything but tolerable be-
neath their charming Shade. ' ’
Bicycle Stolen. ‘

Dr. Winfield H. Baldwin, call ed on a
Main street friend last evening and as
This he

 

the parlor. where he sat down near a
window, and not ten feet from his ma-
chine, but his mind and attention be-
ing diverted 1n some way, he did not
hear or see the sneak thief that walked
up the stoop and stole his iron horse.

Suspicion at present points to a Cobble-

hillian. A large footprint was clearly I

traced out and into the street A bicy-
cle is a hard thing to conceal, and if
the thief has any sense he will return it
with due apologies. It was worth $135
and a conviction of the thief would
send him to state’s prison and for an
uncomfortably long period. '
The Gazette “At the Top.”

In January, we purchased a new Bal-
timore job printing press, to keep up
with our rush Of work. The demands
on our jobbing department have con-
tinued to so constantly inmease since
then, that to-day we put in a Boston
Prouty Jobber, in 'order to fill our
orders for __,job work, one of which is
for forty-five thousand envelopes. ., The
printing turned out by ,Mr. Gardner,
Superintendent of our Job Printing
Department, cannot be excelled any-
where, and in very few offices in New
York or elsewhere, can his work be
equalled. .v-We doubt- if another so
thoroughly artistic and good a job
printer can be found in Connecticut,
and the constant jam of work in our
jobbing office is evidence that the Nor-
walk public appreciate its quality.

 

Next Monday evening Prof. Fair-
lamb commences his course of instruc-
tion for the St. Paul’s boy choir candi-
dates. This is a rare chance for any lad
at all musically inclined, to obtain free
instruction from one of New York’s
b est and most successful teachers.

Questions in Probate Law.

The regular meeting of the Connecti-
cut Probate assembly will be heldat
Winthrop hotel, in Mer1den, on \Ved-
nesday, May 13, beginning at 11 a..’m

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BASE BALL , -
League. Games

Boston .. 2. 0 0 o 1'- 0 .4 1 5—13]
NewYork 101103002—6
Brooklyn 0 0 1 1 3 1 6 3 x—15
Philadelphia 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0— 5
Chicago 4 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 3—12
Cleveland 000130000—4
Cincinnati 0 2 1 1 2 0 1 12—10
Pittsburg 0 1 O 0 1 2 0 1 0— 5.‘

' Association Games "~
Boston 101030010—6
Cincinnati 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—1
Columbus 0 1 0 1 3 0 1 0 1—7
Athletic ‘ 1 0 10 40 0 '00 0—2
Baltimore 100030020000—6
Louisville 1 02200-001 001—7
Washington 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0—3
St.Louis 01000003x—4
_ Eastern Association.
NewHaven. 2103'00102—9
Providence 0 2 0 O 0 2 0 4 0—8
Syracuse 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0—6_
Buffalo 101000000—2
Albany 2 3 0 2 6 2 0 0 0—15‘
Rochester 5 21,1 0 0 0 1 0 1—10
Lebanon ..0 0'0’ 1 2 0 5 2 0—10
Troy 000004000—4

 

ll am ___FlREl

Part of Long Island City Swept

Up to 3 o’clock This Mornlng the
Loss had Exceeded ,One
Million Dollars.

; At 11 0 ’Clock last night fire was dis-
covered by the night watchman of Don-
caster’s foundry, in Long Island City,
between the foundry and a lumber pile

,_ in the lumber yard of H. F. Burroughs.

, He quickly gave the alarm. and the fire-
Smen Were soon On the ground, but
seemed to be powerless to cope with

the flames.

The foundry was soon destroyed and
the flames spread to Burroughs lumber
yard

The streams of water cast by the
three steam fire engines, which are all
that Long Island City own, seemed on-
ly. to quicken the flames, and the fire

'soon crossed to the hay and feed sheds

of Clark &'Sampson, the Whiting Lum-
ber Company on Newtown Creek,
Hummell’s stone yards and Tunis,
Sims & Co.

The fire burned with almost incr ed-

:ible fierceness amid the masses of lum-

ber and other inflammable material,
and step by step the firemen were driv-
en back. Then from other points the
men resumed the attack, only to be
again forced to retire with blistered
hands and _.faces It was; an awful
struggle with a terrible fee. I

Next the vessels moored to the docks
on Newtoivn Creek were threatened,
and? the brigant'ine Levi T. Andrews
was pulled out jby tugs and towed away
to a: place of safety. The brig Teniofl'
was next tow e’d out .

The flames spread to the lumber
yin 535 of McClave & Co, adjoining the
Long Island Railroad ,, depot, and the
yard of Macintosh, across Vernon ave-
nue, near the Greenpoint bridge.

The fire is supposed to have been
started by a spark from a casting which
had been made just before the shop in

Doncaster’ s foundry was closed. .. 2 -' _’
At three a. m. the fire was still raging. -

Several casualties had been reported
and the loss was estimated at fully $1,-
000,000. .

Early this morning it seemed as if
the whole city must be blazing close at
hand. The tall down- town buildings
stood out in striking silhouette against
a background of crimson.

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, Notice to Musical Composers.

Musicians who are residents of this
state are requested to send original
compositions to the Secretary of the
Connecticut Music Teachers’ Associa-
tion, box 876, New Haven, Conn, on or
before June 1,1891, from which the ex-
amining committee will select the six
best compositions for public perform-
ance at the meeting of the association,
June 29 and 30 and July 1.

Composers must send name in sealed
envelope, accompanied with a private
mark agreeing with one on their man-
uscript for purpose of identification, in
case their composition is agcepted.

Compositions may be sacred or seen-
lar, vocal or instrumental, but must
not require an orchestra, or consume
more than ten minutes in performance,
and must be written by residents of
this state.

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Competition is the life of trade and
when it comes to meet othel houses in
style and quality, Comstock Brother s,
proprietors of the stores at Nor walk
and South Norwalk, beg the public to
understand that “they are in it.” Lat-
est styles in men’s, youths and boys
clothing are received daily. A full and
complete stock of gloves, handker-
chiefs, collars, cuffs, neckwear, under-
weal, dress, fancy and negligee shirts
always on hand. See their advertise-

ment 1n this iSSue.
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Y M G_._ A. NOTES.

Tickets are now ready for the special
Sunday service in the Opera House
when Col. A. S. Bacon will deliver an
address to men. He is one of the best
platform speakers of the day and
should be heard by every man who can
possibly attend. The tickets can be
had at the association rooms or from
members of the association. '

The entertamment committee will
hold a meeting this evening at 8 o’clock
to elect officers and arrange for an en-
tertainment the last of this month to
clear up the debt on the piano, the re-
quired 300 tickets having been pledged
by the members of the Association.

The baseball department have leased
the diamond at the fair grounds for the
season, and the first game will be play-
ed on Saturday afternoon of this week
between the two nines of the Associa-
tion. Every member of the base ball
department should report on the
grounds by 3 o’clock and play will be
called at 3. 30 sharp. . . ‘

 

PRESS pagans.

Specially Wired to the Norwalk
Daily Gazette.

Train-Wreckers at Work.
MIDDLETOWN, May 7.—As the south-
bound train on the Valley road was
nearing Rocky Hill this morning the
engineer discovered a pile of ties on
the track. The train was stopped in
time to avert an accident, and the ties

removed.
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lncendiarles at Work.

MIDDLETOWN, May 7.—Firebugs have
resumed operations at Middle Haddam.
Last night the barn of Demas Strong,
valued a $500, was burned to the ground.
This is the fifteenth incendiary fire in
that section within the last two months

 

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THE BURGLARS JAILED.

History of the Operations of a Most
Audacious Gang of Criminals.

Yesterday afternoon Burglar Luding-
ton and his alleged accomplice, Dora
Conroy, were taken before Justice Chi-
Chester, of Wilton for trial. Each en-
tereda plea of not guilty and not hav-
ing had an opportunity to engage coun-
sel, the preliminary trial was adjourned
until Saturday morning, at 10 o’clock,
at the same place. Meantime they
stand committed to BridgepOrt jail in
default of giving bail to the extent of
$1,000 for each. It is reported that
Counselor Ben Lockwood and other
Bridgeport lawyers will be retained by
the defense, and the trial promises to
be one of the most interesting in Fair-
field county court annals.

SUCCESSFUL BURGLABIES.

For nearly two years a series of bur-
glaries have been committed in and
around Westport and Wilton which
greatly resemble the work of Murty
Savage,the noted burglar. These, how-
ever, were more cleverly executed. A
house left without some one to protect
it would be cleaned out even to the car-
pets on the floors.

Mrs. Hickok, residing near Gould’s
mill, had $300 worth of household fur-
niture stolen from her place during the '
absence of members of the family. Mr.
Banger of Cannon’s Station lost antim-
ber 'of articles of furniture, among
which were a collection of books, hat
rack and a sword, which was a relic of
Revolutionary fame, and a quantity of
tools.

The house of Mr. John Lee, in Red-
ding, was among those raided, the
thieves escaping with $60 in cash be-
sides such portable property as they
could conveniently carry away.

Sipperly’s mills and Gould’s mills in
Easton and Wilton were visited and
several hundred dollars’ worth of goods
stolen. The local officers and detec-
tives were unable to trace thejcrimes, so
cleverly were they perpetrated.

Mr. Banger of Cannon’s Station in-
formed Detective Cronin that among
the goods stolen from his place was a
silver dollar dated 1797, which had a
hole in the face of the figure on the
coin. There were also a number of
Mexican silver dollars.

The officer soon discoveredthat Lud.
ington and Brown operated in all of
the towns above mentioned and used a
wagon to carry the booty away with.
They would watch for an opportunity
to get in a house while the members of
the household had gone out on busi-
ness, when they would load their wagon
and then depart. Another plan was
for Brown to call at the rear door of a I
dwelling house and engage the atten-
tion of the occupants while his pal di-
vested the parlor of its furniture and
rode off.

On Tuesday last Detective Cronin
and Officer Arnold saw a wagon load of
stolen goods go into Ludington’s house
on the Westport road near Sipperly’s
mill, and at 3 o’clock yesterday morn-
ing they called at the house and Lud-
ington answered their summons. The
officers immediately put Ludington
under arrest. Brown, however, had
escaped.

They made a search of the house from
top to bottom and found hundreds of
dollars’ worth of carpenters’ tools, sev-
eral hundred yards of carpet, the stolen
books, the sword. the Mexican coin and
the mutilated silver dollar, several sets
of furniture, clothing of every descrip-
tion‘and sufficient to start the clothing
business. An immense number of hams
and shoulders in the cellar were also
found.

Ludington - is the ”man who some
time ago, when arrested on suspicion of
burglary, broke out of the WeStport
jail. Another man named Burr, it is
thought, is implicated in the thieving. _
He is now serving out a short sentence
in the cOunty jail. He was intimate
with Ludington. The people of that
section can now feel safe» once more. ‘
The house is in charge of a custodian.

 

 

 

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