; . '- '~ ’ V V. .. 7 '5 , . I". 'G .. — , ~ . . . . .l ., , 3 . . r ’ . - ETT “Equal and, Exact Justice Vol. I, No. 98. "I" 1' “’5 me of Waste.» 533% 5,.- NO’Wm-‘s Conn-s Monday: damnaMay 1:1. .'-.1;891:..,; PerSudsion, Religious or .Political.”.—Jqferson Price One Cent. The Daily Gazette Is issued every week-day at 3 P. M., at 0NE CENT rER corr. The Cheapest Rates for Advertising, and THE LARGEST CIRCULATION. The Weekly Gazette, [Combined with Saturday’s DailyJ Is issued every Saturday at Noon. at THREE CENTS I’EB corr, 0R $1.50 PER YEAR. The Daily and Weekly. Served to Local Subscribers at I‘EN CENTS PER WEEK, 0R $5.00 PER YEAR. A. H. BrINGTON. Proprietor. O U R J OBBIN G DEPARTMENT. MR. HARRY M. GARDNER, J R., of New York, has charge of the GAZETTE’S Engraving, Book and 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 of Bridgeport. TO OUR ADVERTISERS. To insure changes being made in advertise- ments running in this paper the same must be handed in not later than 3 p. m. on the preced- ing dav. THE LIVE NEWS OF TO-DAY. —BorWANTED—At Scofield & Hoyt’s Norwalk store. 97tf Charles F. Adams of Greenw1ch, spent Sunday in town. —An active, well educated and 'wide- awake boy is wanted at this office. tf A meeting of the Entertainment com- mittee of the Tennis club will be held to-morrow. “Bob” Adams left for Pittsburg yes- terday to witness the mill between Farrell and Dailey. Mrs. Parsons of New Haven: is visit- ing her parents Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Talcott on Union Park. Mr. Fred. Lockwood of Yale, son of Col. F. St. John Lockwood, spent last week with his parents. —Broken Stone for walks and drives for sale by P. W. Bates. 97-2t Prowitt is painting 0. E. Wilson’s West avenue house, which means that the work will be well done. —Broken Stone for walks and drives for sale by P. W. Bates. 97-2t Mr. and Mrs. Little of Danbury are visiting at the home of Mrs. Little’s father, Mr. O. S. Clark, on Merwin street. —BICYCLEs—The Lovell Diamond Ball bearings, $85, at Louis Potter’s 6 Wall street. 95-1w Justice Andrew Selleck was in town Saturday afternoon. He reports Mrs. Selleck as a severe sufferer with la grippe. ——Boners Wanted~Apply at the Cor- et Factory of ROTH & GOLDSCHMIDT. 96-3t —Try the National Steam Dye House, Nickerson & Betts agents. E. R. Sherwood General Agent. 94tf. Yesterday was a perfect May day and the churches were well filled and the livery stables cleaned out of everything but sleighs. -Broken Stonezforlwalks and drives for sale by P. W. Bates. 97-2t There is to be a meeting of the Fair- field Consociation West, held at the Congregational church in Darien to- morrow at 10.30 a. m. Owing to the spreading of the frog at the switch opposite St.Mary’s church, where the grade of the street is being lowered, the horse cars were unable to run last evening. —A well educated young lady is wanted at~ the office of the DAILY GA— ZETTE, to learn the compositor’s trade, where other young ladies are similarly employed. tf Father Slocum thinks of visiting the thief Luddington’s den today to see i; his stolen silver and clerical coat may not be there. He will be able to find about everything else there. It was enough to make any enter- prising Norwalk man, and especially a member of our not over-active Board of Trade, weep to see the greatSimonds engine and boiler carted off to Dan- bury. ‘ Mrs. Choate, of Greenwich will ad- dress the ladies at their missionary meeting on Wednesday afternoon in the ladies’ parlor of the Congregational church, commencing at three o’clock. The King’s Daughters are especially invited to be present. ’ The large wholesale grocery estab- lishment of Francis H. Leggett & 00., located on the block bounded by Frank- lin and Varick streets and West Broad- way, New York, was gutted by fire late yesterday afternoon. Mrs. F. S. Walbridge of Danbury is spending a few days with friends in town. . - , - ’ Miss .Lillie Lockwood of Stamford spent Sunday with friends on Harbor avenue. Superintendent Avery of the Electric Light has leased the new Scofield house on Belden avenue. Rev. Dr. Noble gave his hearers some interesting “pointers” as to .the “old, old story” of J ephtha’s daughter. “Joker” Russell was looking for fight Saturday night, and from “J oker’s" looks to-day he must have found it. “Barney” Meeker has the founda- tions up for a cottage for his son on his lot this side his own residence on West- port avenue. Sportsman Finch brought down from up country to his friend “Monsy” Hoyt, a delicate fry of brook trout for his Sunday breakfast. Mrs. Wm. A. Throop and son have concluded their visit to Norwalk, and gone to Albany. From thence they go to their home in Detroit. Miss‘Conway, a pleasant young lady of Brooklyn, who has been visiting Miss Mary Selleck on Merwin street, returns to her home to-day. Mrs. Horace Hubbell is visiting friends in Syracuse, and Mr. Hubbell is keeping bachelor’s hall with the as- sistance of J. Arthur Pinneo. Amos J. Mumford of New Haven, c'ame to Norwalk a short time ago and was taken sick and removed to the town farm. where he died yesterday: Good old Deacon Main, whilom of Georgetown and now “head gunner” at Bramhal & Deans’, New York, was a visitor at Walter Fitch’s over Sunday. Drygoodsman Tristram has leased the Spencer mansion on Main street, furnished. He takes possession June lst, Mr. and -Mrs. Spencer sailing for Europe on the 28th inst. Apple blossoms, with all their wealth of sweet odors and bright colors, were banked from Dr. Noble’s communion table up to the pulpit, with a big fes- ‘toon above the keyboard of the organ. Mr. Charles Ferris, of the Electric Light company, climbed the flag pole on the Center school building this morning and put in new halliards, so that the children could fly their flag again. —BICYCLE STOLEN—~And a suitable reward offered for its recovery. 7 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, 64 Wall street. 96tf As there are many new dWellings go- ing up in and about Norwalk this spring, “we rise to remark and our lan- guage it is plain”-—that the Stewart Ceramic white crockery stationary wash tubs are the very best article made for laundry use. Secretary Blaine is reported serious- ' ly ill at the house of his son-in-law, Walter Damrosch, in New York, of in- digestion and vertigo. This is an old trouble with the great statesman and always causes his friends anxiety from a fear, it is said, of its tendency to apo- plexy. Rebecca Hendricks, nine years of age, while playing in the horse car depot Saturday evening ran into the car horses attached to driver Lane’s car and was knocked down and quite severely bruised. It is a wonder that more children have not been hurt at this place, as they seem to make the - depot .a play house, notwithstanding the orders of President Hyatt to keep away. » Two young fools, with the down ,of puberty scarce visible on their chins, strolled up and down in front of the James place last evening, just as the Grace and M. E. churches were out, boldly and insultingly accosting Ia- dies unattended by gentlemen escorts. .A night in the borough lock-up would be just the right kind of medicine to 0001 off such over-grown boy’s vicious- ness. Mr. Peter Mead of New Canaan, is at the unnecessary trouble of sending us a spirited and indignant, denial of the Hour’s story of his having carted away a wagon load -. of 6000 GAZETTEs from this office. _We stated at the time that ' it wasa' lie, the Hour knew it was a lie and so that ought to end it. Mr. Mead fails to remember that there have been three great falsifiers in the world’s history, one being Ananias of old and the other two the “ circulation ”scorer of the-Hour. —-A fine line of stationery at Suther- land’s. businessactivity Saturday. Mrs. James A. Hoyt is quite ill and it is feared threatened with pneumonia. —-Fishing tackle at Sutherland’s. town over Sunday, a visitor at the old home on East avenue. at Sutherland’s. Work on the foundation walls of St. Paul’s chapel has been commenced by Contractor Sheldon. ceptionally able and interesting sermons at St. Paul’s yesterday. Mrs. William H. Earle accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Howard Earle, arrived in town this morning. Prof. Fairlamb commences giving instruction to his boy choir class this evening. The class will hereafter meet every Monday evening. An envelope contribution of one thousand dollars was pledged yesterday at Dr. Van Alstyne’s church to defray church expenses for the current year. Auntie Betsey Saunders, .who is in her one hundred and first year, is very near her end at the alms house, where she has been kindly cared for for many years. Harry Hanford is home from his winter’s sojourn in North Carolina. He is-much better in health, yet does not look as if he were fitted-for an athlete yet. ‘ ‘, Miss Ida B. Coley, a protege of a celebrated singer, sang two solos at St. Paul’s church, yesterday. Efforts are being made to secure her services in the choir. At the annual meeting of the Broad River K. K. Legion the following offi- cers were elected: Benjamin Allen, dent; John James, secretary; Frank Allen, vice- president. The town of Westport and Editor Jones of the Westportor, celebrated their 56th birthday, yesterday. May the sprightly Westporter live to cele- brate its 56th birthday too, and not. show its age any more than its genial editor. . Messrs. Scofield and Hoyt drove to New Canaan yesterday to see Mr. Hoyt’s brother who was so seriously injured by falling from a building there last week. They found him comparatively comfortable, with two ribs broken and his arm fractured below the elbow and his body badly bruised. He is attend- ed by two physicians and it is wonder- ful that he was not killed outright. He is not so well today. Hose Orders Counterm‘anded. Very late Saturday night, (it is said after midnight,) Warder Keeler and Burgess Vanderhoef called on Borough Attorney Warner, who had retired and had to get up out of bed to receive his belated guests, and Mr. Keeler put the question direct to Mr. Warner as to whether there was any legal way the borough authorities could pay for the new hose ordered. Mr. Warner as- sured them there was not; that the general law of the state and the bor- ough charter both made it clearly im- possible. The Warden then, accom- panied by Mr. Vanderhoef, hunted up Chief Prowitt and directed him to countermand the orders given for the large amount of hose, at the first pos- sible moment. So here is another “mess” made by the superserviceable zeal of the author of the blundering resolution presented and passed at the borough meeting, in the interest, it is widely charged, of putting a beggarly commission into somebody’s pocket. Y. M. o. A. NOTES. A good sized audience was present at the Opera House yesterday afternoon to listen to Col. A. S. Bacon’s address on the value of personal purity to young men. Owing to circumstances beyond their control the quartette from the Methodist church were unable to be present, but aside from that the regular programme was carried out. Col. Bacon gave a forcible but practical ad- dress upon this great subject, taking for his basis the pledges contained in the obligations of the White Cross army. The entertainment committee have been obliged to change their J. Wil- liams Macy entertainment from the 27th of this month to the 29th, as Mr. Macy is already engaged for the 27th. Tick- ets will be ready the latter part of this week. The senior ball club defeated the junior club on the Fair grounds, Sat- urday. Old Norwalk wore an air of ‘old time. Edward Bennett of New York was in . I Even the Clothing They Wore at the ——The finest smoking tobacco in town Rev. Mr. Graham preached two 'ex-Y president; Gardner Bouton, vice-presi--..: BOUND OVER. . Henry Luddington and Dora Gon- roy Started for State Prison. ‘ FULL DETAILS OF THE INTER- ESTING EXAMINATIQN HELD SATURDAY IN WILTON. Trial Recognized as Stolen Property. Probably not many times since the town of Wilton was set off from N or: walk, 'in 1802.0r thereabouts, has the stufi'y little Town hall in Wilton held a more cosmopolitan or more excited audience than that of last Saturday, assembled to listen to the testimony against the alleged burglars and thieves, Henry Luddington and Dora Conroy. Among those who took the 9.23 a. m. train from here were Mr. E. M. Lock- wo'od, the able prosecuting attorney, young F. St. John Lockwood and a GAZETTE representative. Aboard the train were found Detective Cronin, Oflicer Arnold and the prisoners. ‘ Arrived at Wilton it seemed as if .a large percentage of the population had congregated at the station as a sort of reception committee, and to subse- quently do escort duty to the Town hall. As we more or less laboriously toiled up the dusty country road lead- ing to the venerable Town hall, (which is now almost a centurion, according to Mrs. Partington,) the words of Long- fellow in “The Alarm Bell of Atri” came to mind, and Wilton seemed to be “one of those little places that have run ihalf up the hill beneath a blazing sun, ‘ and then sat down to rest as if to say I climb no farther upward. come what may.” — In the Town hall all was confusion and dust, the latter being' caused by Selectman Samuel G. Lockwood, who. was sweeping out the ancient temple with alacrity and without his coat. In _a short time men, womenan'dv children filled the little place till the interior resembled that of a kaleidoscope,"-the» fective combination with «boys’ legs dangling from the gallery, and quaint masculine costumes perched atop of desks, benches, polling booths, etc., like so many ancient fowls. Comrade Hiram Cobleigh, of Branchville, was among those present, and he infOrmed the writer that he was'a Thursday visi- tor at the Luddington palace, where twelve hams-were identified as the prop- erty of Abijah Fillow, Seth Benedict and a Mr. Mahoy. Comrade Cob- leigh was also out three hams, but as they had been eaten he hopes they were full of “them pesky trycoon worms” which are Aindigestible and make people sick. Henry also found and identified a horse blanket belong- ing to Charles L. Couch, of Branch- ville. . Chairs for the honorable court, the counsel and the newspaper man were in demand and were quickly provided by Selectman Lockwood. Justice H. E. Chichester presided at the examination, and with him were seated by invitation, Justices William Wakeman, of Easton, andF. L. Sherwood, of Fairfield. The prosecution was excellently conducted by Counselor E. M. Lockwood, of Nor- walk, assisted somewhat by Mr. Wil- liam B. Glover, of Fairfield. Mr. J. C. Chamberlain, Bridgeport‘s noted crim- inal lawyer, appeared for the prisoners. Everything being in readiness the court was opened at 11 o’clock. Four complaints against each of the prison- ers were presented, made by Grand J u- ror John R. Comstock in the names of Edwin Bangert, Charles Jones, Rufus B. Disbrow and Mrs. Huldah Hickok. In opening the case Prosecutor Lock- wood said that in each complaint the offense alleged was burglary and theft. Mr. Chamber-iain was willing that all of them should be covered at once, and the ball was opened by Mrs. Huldah Hickok, (after the usual pleas of not guilty had been entered) a resident Cf Wilton whose house was entered June 3, 1890, and robbed of gowns,.shoes, shawls, jewelry etc., to the value" of about $300. It is not necessary to go over Mrs. Hickok’s testimony in de- tail. She owns two houses inhWilton and the one robbed was unoccupied by her the night of the robbery. The house was entered by meansof a front Window and completely ransacked. Nearly every drawer had been opened and fresh wagon tracks Were discovered near the house. At the Luddington. house on Thursday she had discovered most of the stolen property. ’ , Charles Jones, of New York, a sum- mer resident, was the next witness, his house having been robbed of bedding, towels, clothing, etc., some time after it was closed, December 1. The value of the property thus "stolen was about $100. . . ‘ Mrs. Minnie M. Middlebrook, Mr. J ones’daughter, Was sworn. In 'com- pany with David B. Ogden, she went to gayest Spring millinery coming into ef- 1 the Luddington house on Thursday and identified considerable property as having belonged to her father. David B. Ogden sworn: He had charge of the Jones property, in that gentleman’s absence, and on the first Thursday or Friday in December dis- covered that the house had been burg- larized, the burglars effecting an en— trance by means of a window, pried open with a spade taken from the wood- house. .- ._ - , Edwin Bangert, whose mother’s house was entered February 24, and robbed of clothing, furniture, etc., to the extent of $175 was the next witness. -The._burglars evidently unlocked the door with a skeleton key as no windows or outside doors, were broken. Last Thursday morning in Luddington’s house, he identified most of the stolen property. 1 V ‘ . . Albert Sterling saw a light moving about from room to room in Mrs. Ban- gert’s house one night in the latter part of February. My father first saw it and said, “AL, what’s that light down there?" Edwin Bangert was at once notified. Charlotte Bangert testified that she went with her brother to the Ludding- ton house where she assisted in identi- fying the property taken from her mother’s house. Quite a sensation was created when she also identified the hat worn by the Conroy woman, as hers. Rufus B. Disbrow, another summer resident of Wilton, from whose house various articles, the value of Which was about $50, were taken March 18, was next sworn as to the fact of residence. Miss Carrie Bedient, a member of the family in whose care the Disbrow house was left, went to the Luddington house and identified a hanging lamp, some clothing, jelly, etc., as Mr. Dis- brow’s property. She testified that at the time of the burglary she saw the footprints of two persons back of the house and upon the cellar bottom. One of the tracks was evidently made by a woman who wore a 3;} or 4 shoe, with French heel. The burglars got into the house through a window. A RECEss TAKEN. At this point, 1 o’clock, a recess of half an hour was taken for dinner. In the. interval the writer interviewed Captain Elijah B. Batterson, who owns the “Thieves’ Paradise.” He said that it was in the town of Fairfield, four miles from Westport on the Newtown turnpike. A year ago last March Lud- dington, who then called himself Per- kins,and who dressed well and appeared well, approached him in the woods with overtures for the purchase of the prop- erty—house and about three acres of land which he valued at $100. No bar- gain was consummated, but it seems Luddington & Co. immediately took possession of the property and lived there over a year without the owner’s knowledge. During the recess 9. Sir Oracle lean- ed over the railing and in a stage whis- per said to the writer: “B’.gosh, I be- lieve all the cloze they’ve got on is stole.” (This in view of the fact that the very hat worn by Luddington was identified by Mr. Disbrow as his prop- erty.) When court reconvened, at 2. 30,Haw- ley Bedient was Sworn. He visited the Disbrow house, March 19 with his sis- ter Carrie, and corroborated her testi- mony respecting the footprints of a man and woman. ,A window on the side stoop had been forced open. The sash look was broken, and the sash pried up by an iron about an inch wide. Edwin Bangert recalled: “I discov- ered on the morning of Feb. 24 that the house had been robbed. It rained the previous night, and when I found my hat rack at Luddington’s it bore evi- dence of having been out in the rain.” Mrs. Hickok was recalled and identi- fied the gown worn by Miss Conroy as her property. This caused a renewed sensation and laughterin the crowded little court room. ’ Detective Cronin testified respecting going to the house with Officer Arnold and a posse of four, and arresting Lud- dington and Miss Conroy. James Bedient testified in corrobora- tion of the testimony of hisbrother and sister, and nothing new was developed save that he found partly burned pa- per on the floor of the Disbrow house. y ARNOLD’s LUCK}? ESCAPE. ‘ 'Ofiicer Arnold, having been sworn, identified several bunches of keys, dark lantern, magic lantern, jimmies, revolvers, saw, etc., (taken from a satch- el in the sustody of Detective Cronin,) as having been found in the Ludding- ton house. He described finding Lud- dington on the top of'a pile of furni- ture in a loeked'attic room. He assist- ed Luddington in a search for his vest, the latter saying “Iv’e something in one of the pockets that I want to give you i ” The vest was not found till the next day, and in one of the. pockets was a revolver, 'with every chamber loaded. ' This was evidently what the .. , , plrisoner wanted to “give” Oflicer Arn- o d. This practically closeh the testimony. Mr. Chamberlain said he had nothing to offer in behalf of the defense, where- upon Counselor Lockwood made a log- ical, eloquent and exhaustive argument, covering the testimony presented, and upon its conclusion Justice Chichester bound the prisoners over to the May term of the superior court under bonds of $4,000 each. GENERAL NOTES. Attorney Chamberlain made quite an argument against holding the prison- ers for burglary, but admitting they might be bound over for theft. To this, Counselor Lockwood, ever alert, made effective response. It was the general opinion that Lud- dington’s face would be good for ten years in any state prison in the land, on general principles. While Miss Con- roy may be equally guilty of burglary and theft, hers is not an unattractive or criminal face, and it is quite likely that with better. surroundings and respecta- ble associates she might become a pret- ty decent sort of a woman. —‘+>—-—~—-—-——. AT THE THIEVES’ DEN. An Endless Quantity and Variety of Stolen Goods. ’ Yesterday evening a DAILY GAZETTE reporter visited the house where the Luddingtons lived and stored their endless booty. It is just four miles north of Westport on the main road up to Easton. It is a story and a half and basement, shanty rather than house, on the left hand side, and between the Aspatuck river and road, which at this point are but a few rods apart. There was a large crowd of visitors, some hunting for lost property and others there from idle curiosity. The same sort :of crowd has visited the place daily since the arrest. The place is in the charge of Mr. Aaron Mills, who has been officially detailed for the purpose. A large cotton American flag draped in crape, is run out of the 2x3 front chamber window on a fish pole and across the street is suspended a piece of green serge on a limb of the forest tree, in honor, one of the natives stated, of the Irish birth of the mother of the Luddington woman. One cat darted furtively about the door-yard, while another sat viewing the unusual scene with great solemnity on top of the stone wall opposite. In the yard were sitting, stalking, sissing and squawking hens, ducks, geese and turkeys innumerable. One maternal goose was conducting her three ofi'springs to_a large pool in the yard supplied by a spring across the street. Several hens with fine large broods were clucking about, at least a dozen more were sitting. One goose was sitting within. three feet of the kitchen door. A parrot, with head down in apparent consciousness of its disgrace, and refusing to confess even its want of a cracker, hung just inside the front door. On the right side on entering the front door, was awell- worn house organ, while the floor was strewn with an utterly indescribable mass of the stolen goods, coats, carpets, shawls, dresses, men’s and ladies’ hats, children’s toys, carpenter’s, black- smith’s, miller’s and quarrymen’s tools, photographs, knives and forks, plated spoons, and napkin rings, crockery and earthen ware of every description, mats, quilts, oil cloths, at least a doz- en skates and hand-saws, with an enor- mous new range set up in the kitchen, etc., etc., etc. There are now at least a half dozen loads of such stuff remain- ing, while over a dozen loads had been carted away. While the GAZETTE re— porter was there, one lady found her spandy new Sunday bonnet, Easter pansies and all, her church dress, flan- nel skirt and stockings among the now mixed up conglomeration. Nine fine linen table napkins belonging to Mrs. Charles Jones, of Wilton, were also up- turned, although she supposed on Sat- urday that she had recovered every- thing stolen from her save a fine linen table cloth. A Bedding man also rec- ognized about eight bushels of corn, ‘because it was of a peculiar variety and. three years old. This quite broke up Mr.Mills as he said he did not know how he was now to feed his large family of poultry. The big family Blble was claimed by George Rockwell, of Ridgefield. One neighbor told us that Luddington went to Bridgeport regularly as often as twice a week to sell his stolen butter, lard, pork, hams and poultry and that - he supplied one firm there with [all the poultry it retailed. Another stated that everybody suspected and in fact knew, though they could not prove, that this gang were stealing from the neighbors, right and left; carrying off everything movable, with the utmost impartlality. The little barn was locked With anew Smith & Edge patent mail lock. The horse was attached and taken to West- po'rt,‘but Lnddinvton’s woman’s moth- er had sent word that she would be over from Bridgeport to-day and'claim it as her property. The_five children are with then‘ auntiat Brldgeport.
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