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Norwalk, Gonn., Tuesday Evening, June 6, 1893.
Price 'One Cent.
'NORWAJKWGAZETTE.
THEFAVORITE HOME PAPER.
Indentndent in all things: Neutral 11 110011112.
The Gazette has the largest cir—
culation of any paper in Norwalk.
and furnishes the lowest advertising
rates.
Divorces.
The GAZETTE is of the Opinion that-
divorces are too easily obtained in Con-
necticut, and that half of the applica-
tions should be refused a hearing by
the courts, so trivial are the pretexts
upon which they are based.
But occasionally there comes to its
notice a case so fraught with dramatic
and tragic elements that it is bound to
acknowledge Divorce as a noble insti-
tution. For instance, an old gentleman
in Atlanta, Ga., prays the court to be
released from matrimonial bondage and
to have his bachelor name restored.
When he felt that old age was waxing
on space he became lonely and married
a woman who spoke several languages,
and was large and muscular. He fond-
y believed that she would croon Span-
ish love songs to him in the twilight,
and warble Tyrolese hymns in the
morning, and chant German anthems
at noon. But he was disappointed.
Her linguistic acquirement proved a
curse rather than a benison. She
abused him in Spanish, and reviled him
in German, and anathemized him in
Russian, and drew on her reserves of
Chocktaw to crush him entirely, after
which she resorted to muscular force
and almost annihilated him.
With such a combination of violence
and verbosity against him he appeals to
the court, and convinces the GAZETTE
that the divorce law is occasionally an
admirable institution. ' '
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Those Jurors.
A perusal of the list of jurors elected
courts, which appears in another col-
umn of -to-day’s issue, will without
doubt lead the public to believe that
the joint board held a regular love
feast among themselves, and that it is
a joyous thing these hot days to have a
little pull on the judicial pap.
Aside from the town barnacles, who
usually appear when there is a chance
to get a dollar, will be found in the list
the name of Warden Sloan and two of
the ‘Court of Burgesses. Three Bor-
ough officials not being enough to com-
plete the love feast the entire Borough
police force with Chief Dann at the
head, were kindly included. Who. will
now say that a policeman’s life is not a
happy one?
This “pull” may be all right, but
the GAZETTE fails to understand the
equity of a policeman arresting a man
on an alleged complaint signed bya
grand juror, bringing him up before a
justice and binding him over to appear
at a higher court, and then when he
appears for trial require him to face in
the jury box the same grand juror who
made the complaint, the same police;
man that made the arrest and the same
justice that found him guilty.
It is suggested, in view of the fact
that the election is said to have been a
love feast, that prior to their departure
for the jury reom they line themselves
up and repeat:
I am going to the jury room where
work is no more ; I am weary of Nor-
walk and its Tramway and its roar;
Ah, how sweet ’twill be to wander when
the day of toil is done, where the pool
room and the faro’banks are open ’til
the rising of the sun. Oh, this sylvan
life of pleasure, it will make me young
again ; I’ll return refreshed to this town
of toiling men, when the jury daysare
ended and my money all expended.
While the above suggestion is a good
one it is not thought wise to' call too
much attention to the manner and
means employed in Norwalk for the
selection of jurors, else some day the
exhausted tax-payers will get together
and dissolve these love feasts, in which
case those having a pull will be apt to
go to the piano and softly sing :
“Mother tan my little jacket,
As you used to long ago.”
A gutter band filled the ambient air
with dulcet music, Monday evening.
,‘ It is reported that there has not been
Dantown, in over two weeks. This
may in a measure account for the pres-
ent lack of rain.
_The Alpha Wheel club will meet to-
night .to perfect arrangements for their
ten mile handicap road race which will
take place Saturday, June 17th. Those
from Danbury who will probably enter
are F. Bormann, R. Blackman, W.
Cox and S. Wheeler.
The New York Grocery company has
lensed the store recently vacated by the
Misses St.John and have painted it the
color of a bOiled lobster. They will
stock itwith goods which they propose
selling at astoundingly low prices for
gash. Saturday next Wlll be opening
ay'
TERSE TALESHOF THE TIMES.
.The carpenters Union will meet to-
night.
—Ha1e’s Emulsion, 50c.
616 tf
Lewis Jones, a veteranlof the 28th
C. V., is dead in Stamford, aged 72
years.
—Norwalk Steam Carpet Cleaning
Works, 14 Knight street._ 588 tf
The thermometer at Hale’s drug-
store slopped over at 110 degrees this
morning.
——Live soft Crabs. Peoples’ Market.
621-31; '
Bills to the amount of $5,543.45 were
ordered paid by the Court of Burges-
es, Monday night.
Burgess Sutherland is down the har-
bor to—day getting sunburned and try-
ing to catch some fish.
4Child’s patent leather cloth-top 5
toS $1.25, 8&130 10% $1.50, 11 to 2 $1.75.
Fine, at Hoyts. . 621-3t
Next to borrowing an umbrella the
worst thing a man can do is to ask if it
is warm enough for you. -
Two sea serpents have been killed
this year, and all that Mr. Cleveland
can boast of is a drum fish.
——Hale’s Extract of Malt, 200. 617 tf
Kabaosa Encampment, I. O. O. F..
will confer the third degree on four'
candidates Thursday evening.
Norwalk merchants are commencing
to brush the dust from their left over
last years stock of pyrotechnico. '
Ayear or two ago Frank Slavin was
posing as a world beater. and now
there’s none so poor to do him rev-
erence.
Cool breezes, preceeded by rain and
local thunder storms, are blowing from
the lake region in this direction,and we
may be happy yet.
Miss Hattie Garland Parrott, only
daughter of Hon. Henry R. Barrett, of
Bridgeport, _died at the residence of
her parents in that city on Sunday.
_ The Supreme Court of Errors comes
in to-day at New Haven. The only
N orwalk case on the docket is the Nor-
Norwalk.
walk Gas Light 00., vs. Borough of‘
The Danbury News says that a party
of young lady bicyclists are arranging
for a ride to Norwalk some day this
.week. The Norwalk boys will be ready
and waiting.
——Is your hair .falling out? Hale’s
Comp. Quinine Will stop it. 617 tf
Mr. James M. Creagh has an Italian
flea on exhibition at his Main street
store. It is unlike the domestic flea in
that it is as large as a humming bird
and has wings.
Some one with keen observation says:
“There is nothing that so increases a
man’s-desire to work in the garden as
the discovery that his wife has mis-
placed the rake.”
The big dry goods firm of William
Neeley & Co. of New Haven is to dis-
solve August 18t. ~ Walter Malley, who
stood trial for the murder of Jennie
Cramer, is one of the stockholders. -
A good advertisement in a newspaper
is worth more than all the fence signs
you can paint in a year, says an ex-
change, and the experience of all
shrewd advertisers confirms the truth
of the statement.
Mr. Fred. Waters and Miss Florence
Duncan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James B. Duncan, will be married on
Wednesday, June 20th, at the home of
the bride, on Fair street. Mr. Waters
holds a responsible position in the Bos-
ton store. '
—See about those Negligee shirts
from 85c up at Mitchell 8; J udd’s, Wall
street. 620-2t
James McMahon, of Ellwood Place,
one of the GAZETTE’s coterie of news-
boys, will leave to-morrow for an ex-
tended vacation. in Plainfield N. J. He
has seemed an air gun for the purpose
of shooting “galliuippers” which
abound in that section of the glorious
union.
R. K. Fitch brought a young man
named Rowland down from Weston,
Monday night, and introduced him to
the members of Our Brothers Lodge
who treated him to a ride on the goat.
It being a warm night the goat was not
very frisky and Mr. Rowland escaped
serious injury.
The “merry-go-round” which is to
be located on the vacant lot on Hoyt
* street, had a merry-go-down on Wall
street Monday afternoon, one of the
hind wheels of the wagon on which it
.was riding taking a collapse.
Another
wagon was secured and the merryogo-
_ round was taken to its new home for
which it had started when the accident
occurred.
Blue and Gray has been an electric
success, and it is confidently believed
that the July issue, beginning its sec-
.ond volume, will take the patriotic
reading public by storm. The July
number will contain a vast amount of
mest interesting matter—4a symposium
of the battle of Gett sburg beings
prominent feature. his article will
be copiously illustrated, and contribu-
tionswill be furnished by the “leading
surviving generals on both.sides, to-
ether with numerous reminiscences
mm the rank and file.
Success To You.
Frank Steele, for the:p_ast year con-
nected with the Bridgeport Sunday
Herald as sporting editor, has tendered
his resignation to take effect next Sat-
urday evening. Mr.
has not yet decided to accept it.
Steele has many friends in Norwalk
who will wish him success in whatever
place he may cast his lines.
USE DANA’S‘ SARSAPARILLA.IT’S
“THE KIND THAT OURES. ”
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A Good Field.
Temperance Evangelist Thomas E.
Murphy and wife are at work on_the
Danbury appetite for strong drink.
Ike Ives rather anticipated their com-
ing by organizing a Keeley gold cure
Society, but both Ikeand Torn can to-
gether exert a grand influence in down-
ing the two devils known as Tom and
Jerry, and their henchmen, Whiskey,
Gin, Beer, etc. May the good work go
on ;‘no town in the state offers a better
field than does Danbury.
USE DAN A’S SARSAPARILLA,IT’S
“THE KIND THAT CURES.”
CO.
Tail End Collision.
A collision occurred Monday three
miles from Pomfret station between
two freight trains on the New England
road. It was a tail end collision, both
trains being bound east at the time. A
locomotive and several cars were badly
damaged and travel was delayed for
four hours.
Thomas Redford, a brakeman, was
~ quite badly injured, and it is thought
may die. The responsibility for the
accident has not been placed.
The New Five—Hour Train.
The new five-hour train between New
York and Boston will be put on Mon-
day, June 26. This is not only to be
the fastest train ever run in New Eng-
land, but will eclipse the running time
of the 24-hour Pennsylvania train be-
tween'New York and Chicago, and will
run not very far behind the new 20-hour
flyer of the New York Central road.
The time of the five-hour train will be
46 2-5 miles per hour, which includes
three stops of five minutes each. The
average time of the fast New York and
Chicago train is 49 miles per hour.
O.—
USE DANA’S SARSAPARILLA,IT’S
“THE KIND THAT CURES. ”
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An Engine Runs Away.
When one of the employees of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad company finished the clean-
ing of the engines in the roundhouse
at New Britain Sunday morning he
left the throttle of engine No. 136
open. The engine was blocked, but
when the steam generated it jumped
the blocks and shortly after 3 o’clock
in the afternoon it burst through the
doors and started off at a high rate of
speed. Martin Conway, a brakeman,
at a great risk, leaped on the runaway
as it passed and stopped it. Had the
engine gone much further it would
have reached such a rate of speed as to
preclude any possibility of its being
stopped without great damage and per-
haps loss of life.
Miss Wilcox to Wed.
Dr. Thomas P. Czolon, of Brockton,
Mass, and Miss Lulu Wilcox,of Water-
bury, are to be married in New York
to-day. About a year ago Miss Wilcox
renounced her vows as a Sister of the
Order of Mercy, and retired from Mt.
St. Joseph convent in Hartford after
having spent ten years there. Miss Wil-
cox is wealthy in her own right.
Miss Wilcox’s romance recalls a no
less interesting romance in the life of
her mother. That lady first married a
man named Tifi'any,but a few years lat-
er secured a divorce and married Mr.
Wilcox. At the end of a few years she
secured a divorce and remarried Mr.
Tiffany. Later still she was divorced
from Mr. Tiffany and married Mr.
Wilcox for the second time.
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‘USE DANA’S SARSAPARILLA.IT’S
‘ THE KIND THAT CURES.”
And the Town Pays the Bill.
George Platt, a pensioner, was arres-
ted Monday afternoon by.Ofiicer North-
rop, on a charge of theft preferred
against him by Mrs. Frank Sherwood.
Both are residents of the somewhat
classical street known as Smith street.
He was taken before Justice Austin
where he plead not guilty in a sort of a I-
hardly-know-what-to-say tone of voice.
Mrs. Sherwood was the first witnes ex-
amined. She said that Platt during her
absence went into her house and helped
himself to roast beef and bread ; did
not care so much about the loss of the
food but he insulted her by taking or
“ gouging out ” as she expressed it, the
lean part of the meat and leaving the
fat; said that he had several times be-
fore helped himself from her pantry ;
was Willing to give him something to
ealtfbut objected to his ”helping him-
se .
Mrs. Sherwood’s husband was next
called as a witness, and the astounding
fact was elicited from him that he knew
nothing about the matter only what he
had heard, and supplemented his testi-
mony With the remark that Platt ought
to be in jail.
Mrs. Fanny Britto was the next wit-
ness. Her testimony was in keeping
with that of Sherwood.
Platt was asked if he had anything to
say in refutation of the evidence as to
the horrible deed he had committed
and he shook his head to the contrary
with about as_much expression on his
face as there is on an egg plant.
Justice Austin promptly fined him $2
and costs. in default of which he was
taken to jail.
will be well_repaid for the loss of their
provender, in Witness fees, which the
town will pay. . .-
_ Platt is apparently non co‘mpos men-
tm. The decision of the justice was a
surprise to a number who were in the
room. . The complaint ought never to
have been filed. -
Steele has beau;
offered the position of managing editof?
of the Danbury Sunday Despatch. fit
Mr. and Mrs. SherWood '
REFUSE MESPOND. ’
,TheMutual ResePVe‘Fund Life As-
l sooiation Ceyls on NorwaIK
Policy yolfiggrs for their
the‘Agent Misrep-
' the Facts.
The Insured S
resent
Last February a gentleman who gave
his name as D. M. Lindsley, and his
occupation an agent for the Mutual
Reserve Fund Life Association, of New
York, visited Norwalk. He had a gen-
teel appearance and was a smooth and
affable talker, and succeeded in getting
several well-known young men in town
to take out policies in the company
which he represented.
Mr. Lindsley, as the ihvestors aver,
pany had an extraordinarily large re-
serve fund. He ofi'ered to insure the
parties at the rate of $16 per 31,000, for
one year, and asked for one-half that
amount in advance, and as they say,
stated that there was no likelihood of
there being any assessments in the near
future, and on these conditions they
took out policies.
What was their surprise can perhaps
be better imagined than described,
when it is stated that sbon after the re-
ceipt of the policies they were called
upon to pay an assessment of $6 each
on the thousand, according to the
amount their policies called for.
Their. surprise was so great that in
nearly if not all of the cases there was
a refusal of the demand. One of the
number wrote to the main office of the
company and asked for an explanation.
An answer wasyreceived, which con-
tained the information that they (the
policy holders) must have been very
foolish in thinking that any insurance
company was in a pos1tion to give such
rates on life risks. The letter, how-
ever, stated that the matter would be
further investigated, and that the agent
who had secured the policies would be
interviewed, and that if it was found
that he had made any such-proposition,
which they, the company, were inclined
to believe was not the fact, he would
be “ called down.” '
1 The Norwalkparties who took out
insurance are men of veracity, and
stick to their claim of misrepresenta-
tions on the part of the representative
of the company. To a GAZETTE re-
porter one of the parties interested
said that they all would refuse to pay
the assessment even though such action
on their part might result in the loss of
their original payments.
It is understood that the company is
perfectly sound, add doing a legitimate
business. Such being the case it would
seem as if they were responsible for
the acts of their agents. Certain it‘is
that the acts of at least one agent in
Norwalk will not tend to increase the
business of the company, or gain any
confidence in their methods of doing
business.
Blockades were numerous on ~Wall
street this morning.
A borough meeting will be held on
Friday evening June 16th, to consider
the matter of laying sewers on Elm-
crest avenue, Butler street and Stuart
avenue.
Buckingham Post, G. A. R., is in re-
ceipt of a bill from Chief of police
Dann, for $1.50 for services of a police-
man at the Memorial day services.
The bill will be considered at the next
meeting of the Post.
There is an unusually large crop of
mosquitoes this season. About the
only ones who have not noticed the
fact seem to be the Italian contingent
who are dissecting the spinal Ecolumn
of Wall street.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Norwalk Horse Railway Company will
be held to-night. Matters of vital im-
portance will probably be brought be-
fore the meeting. It is expected that
E. C. Benedict, a leading stockholder
will be present.
Reed R. Bishop, .a wheelman from
Columbia College, New York City, en
route for Boston Mass, reached Nor-
walk Monday afternoon and remained
over night with his old school mate,
Harry Mitchell. Mr. Bishop left early
this morning for New Haven.
John McGrath claims to have caught
four carp under the dam at the Union
Mills, Monday afternoon, that weighed
thirty pounds. He at first offered them
for Sale for $1.00, but on being told that
they were propagated in Germany for
the purpose of enriching the soil, {he
gave them to a deaf and dumb boy who
also had a broken arm and no parents.
Mr. Edward. Muckridge while en-
gaged in papering a hallway in an East
Norwalk residence Monday afternoon,
by the breaking of a plank upon which
he was standing, fell and sustained very
severe injuries to both of his arms.
He was cared for by Di. Dexter Hitch—-
cock and was about the street to-day.
Warden Sloan was not in his office
this morning. He, however, left word
that his whereabouts be kept secret,
but a sparrow flew into the GAZETTE re-
porter’s den and said that he saw an in.
dividual that looked very much like the
warden, sitting in a boat With Burgess
Sutherland, near Dorlon Point, cutting
bait while Amzi Waters was dealing the
cards. ‘
. ' To New York. __
The City of Albany will commence
making daily trips between South Nor-
walk and New .York, on Monday next.
N orwalk at 7:15 a. m.. leaving New
York, foot of Beekman street at 2:00 p.
- m. and East 31st street at 2:20 p. m. ,
gave them to understand that the com- ‘
June 12th. The boat will leave South;
Court of'Burizesses.
_ A regular meeting of thevCourt of
Burgesses was held Monday evening,
the Warden and full board being pres-
ent. .
, Warden Sloan called the meeting to
order at 8:15, and fifteen minutes were
occupied in reading the minutes of the
previous meetings, since the last regu-
- ’ ‘lar meeting.
The following bills were ordered
paid: Norwalk Gas Light Company,
$10.50 ; H. Slanker, $150 (this for extra
paving stones on Main street ;) M.
Wholen, $4. 50 ; Meeker-Coal Co., $1.40 ;
W. H. Van We non-"$17,; D. Seymour
Curtis, $60; It, ,cGinnis (catch basins)
$77 ; J. A. Pinneo, 32; A. H. Bying-
ton, $25 : Norwalk and South Norwalk
Electric Light 00., $550 (less $9.20 for
lights not found burning;) James T.
Hubbell, $39.80; Charles N. Wood,
3105. 50 ; M. Wholen, $18. 75; M. Nolan,
$25.50 ; ’William Ryan, $21.45; Owen
Win, $27; Patrick .Hanlon, $4; D.
Connelly,- $75.33; D. Deering, $4.50;
. . Van Wagner, $14.25; Thomas
Fitzgerald ,' $5. 40 ; David Shehan, $15.60;
John Clarity, $4.95; Frank Farrell,
$1 ; Blakeslee &'Son, $2 775.71 ; R. M.
Kellogg, $66.25, (for sand ;) F. A. Camp,
$65.83; Blakeslee & Son, $1,068.52 ; F.
Pi rce, $57.14 ; Meeker Coal 00., $98.—
75 ;' T. J. Howard, $30 ; Wallace Dann,
$40 ; A. A. Martin, $32 ; George North-
rop, $32; L. R. June, $6 ; C. PJAddi-
son, $8..
The bill of the Meeker Coal Co. for
supplies to the police rooms for $20.62
was referred to the chairman of the po-
lice ; another bill from the same com-
pany for$24.60 was referred to the
chairman of the committee on high-
ways.
The bonds of tax collector Harvey
Kemp with E. O. Keeler and William
H. Olmstead as sureties in the sum of
$10,000 were accepted.
~An invitation from the Chautauqua
Union to attend a meeting in the Con-
gregational church at South Norwalk,
on the evening of June 19th was read
and accepted. -
A report relative to the lowering of
the Tramway tracks on Belden avenue
was read and accepted.
. A petition with the names of twenty
Signers asking that dead trees and
dead limbs on other trees on North ave-
nue and Main street he cut down as be-
ing dangerous was read, and it was
voted that the borough clerk notify
property owners on those streets to out
down the same.
Attorne Hurlbutt was heard in refer-
ence to amages against the bordugh
by Mrs. Hall who sustained inj uriés by
reason of a fall in front of the Nor-
walk hotel in 1891. The matter was re-
ferred to the chairman of the finance
committee,‘ he to report at the next
meeting of the Court. .
Mr. J. T. ProWitt asked if anything
had been done in reference to the peti-
tion for a sewer on Elmcrest avenue.
This led to considerable discussion in
which the matters of sewers on Butler
street and Stuart avenue were broach-
ed. Burgess Squire stated thfl'the esti-
mate for sewer on Elmcrest avenue was
$925, and on Butler street, $53,800. He
was not positive, but thought that an
estimate had been given for sewer on
Stuart avenue, but could not remember
the figures. ,
On motion of Burgess Glover- the
Warden was directed to call a borough
meeting at the Town House, on Friday
evening, June 16th at 8 o’clock, to take
action in the matter of ordering sewers
laid on Elmcrest avenue, Butler street
and Stuart avenue.
he police report in which it' was
stated that twenty-five arrests had
been made and $50.49 paid over to the
borough in fines, etc., was read and
accepted. -
George Gerrish was present and
stated that the property owners on
Stuart avenue would connect with the
borough water system as soon as a
sewer was laid and connections could
be made with the same.
A catch basin at the corner of West
Main street and Main street was asked
for. A motion was made in effect that
a catch basin be placed at this point,
and that the chairman of the committee
on sewers get bids for the construction
of the same and be empowered to award
it to the lowest bidder. Burgess Mc-
Mullen thought it the better plan to
advertise for bids as then there could
be, as he expressed it, “no chance for
gouging.” The original motion pre-
Veiled.
Burgess Fillow stated that Mr. S. H.
Holmes wanted permission to lay a
granite crosswalk on Main street form
in front of his residence, and at his own
expense. The matter was referred to
y the committee on highways with power.
Burgess Fillow stated that several
of the sidewalks on Main street were
not at grade. The borough clerk was
instructed to order abutting property
owners to raise their sidewalks to con-
form with the established grade.
The chairman of the finance commit-
tee was authorized to borrow $5,500 on
the credit of the borough. '
A grade was asked for sidewalks on
Stuart avenue.
avenue. Burgess McMullen was ap-
pointed a committee to confer with the
authorities of South N orwalk as to
what arrangements could be made in
reference to lighting the avenue, and
report.
The chairman of the highway com-
mittee was instructed to, in company
with the borough engineer, establish a
curb line from the Armory to the bor-
ough line on the turnpike. _
. The court then adjourned until June
P. S.—After the meetinghad adj ourn-
ed and the reporters were out of sight,
Burgess McMullen gave the Court
some “pointers” that he did not, feel
free to give out while the scribes were
present. The reporters are “on to
them just the same,” but as they are
of no special importance they do not
appear as an addenda to this report.
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A Cool Proceedlng.
'A man with a wagon load of ice gqt
his team stalled'on Wall street this
morning, causing 9. blockade that last-V
7 ed fully half an hour. ‘ ~
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Also for lighting said,
0N TRIAL lit. in.
The Case of Lizzie Borden Opened
at New Bedford.
QUICK WORK IN SECURING A JURY.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, June 6.-—Thelong
anticipated Borden murder trial has be
gun. Early yesterday morning every avail-
able shady spot on County street near the
court house was preempted, and patiently
the sitters and standers waited until the
bell on the court house was tolled, signify—
ing the opening of the court. Ten minutes
' later every available foot of space had an
occupant, and it became necessary to sta-
tion guards at the doors.
The prisoner was attired in a very be—
coming costume of black brocaded stuff
and wore a pretty shade hat relieved by a
touch here and there. of blue.
MISS LIZZ IE BORDEN.
The jury was completed at 4:45 in the
afternoon, with Charles I. Richards, of
North Attleboro, as foreman. The quick-
ness with which the jury was empaneled
was a surprise to ,. everybody, even the
counsel, and they were somewhat unpre-
pared. After the selection of the jury the
court was adjourned until today, when the
counsel began their opening addresses to
the jury.
District Attorney Knowlton is of the
opinion that at least three weeks will be
required to finish up the trial, provided
there are no set backs.
The Borden trial is going to be one of the
most memorable in the criminal annals of
New England. Lizzie D. Borden is ayoung
woman 31 years of age, who has heretofore
led a respected life, who was identified with
numerous religious movements, who, so:
cordiu g to ‘the testimony of her friends,
was kind of heart and thoughtful for the
comfort and feelings of others. Did this
young woman split open her aged father’s
ead with a hatchet as he lay sleeping on
a sofa, and afterwards go back and so bat-
ter his face and head with the same weapon
that even the doctors who looked upon the
hideous sight could hardly command their
nerves? Did this same young woman,
just before or just after this deed, strike
down her stepmother and chop and hack
her head and face until it was beaten al-
most out of human resemblance? Did she
do at least one of these horrible deeds
within twenty minutes' time, and was she
at the end of that interval able to appear
before the neighbors she had summoned
without a spot of blood on her clothing,
without a sign 'of derangement or hasty
adjustment of her dress, with the weapon
concealed beyond discovery, and not even
a. scrap of direct evidence to connect her
with the deed left undisposed of P . ~
Did Lizzie D. Borden do all this and do
it in broad daylight, between 10:30 and 11
o’clock in the morning, and in a house
close up to the sidewalk of one of the
most frequented streets of a. town/of 80,000
inhabitants, a. houseclosely elbowed, and
overlooked and surrounded, by other
houses, with their windows and doors all
open as in a hot midsummer morning?
Twelve men under the legal guidance of
three judges and the misguidance of six
lawyers, are going to decide whether or no‘
Lizzie Borden did all these things.
On Aug. 4, 1892, when Andrew J. Bor
den and his wife were murdered, Emma
Borden, the eldest daughter, was not at.
home. She was away in New Bedford on
a. visit, and hence is entirely eliminated
from all consideration in the discussion of
the crime. She is the older of the two sis—
ters, and Mr. Borden had no other chil-
dren. '
Andrew Borden was known as a hard
listed, closebargaining business man, fond
of money to the degree of being counted
penurious. He had no very warm friends,
and in his grasping, unrelenting way of
doing business had made quite the num-
ber of enemies, which such men usually
raise. There were many men who had had
their moments of hating him, although
beyond certain unsatisfactory statements
none of this had developed during the time
immediately preceding the tragedy. In
Fall River Borden wits counted one of the
wealthy men of the place. His property
was variously estimated at from 835000030
$500,000. He owued a business bleak, still
known as the Borden block, farms, sev-
eral houses, had manufacturing and bank
stock, and was the president of the Union
Savings bank. _ _
As to the exact state of afiairs in' the
Borden household there is a conflict of evi-
dence, but that Lizzie and her stepmother
were not on cordial terms there is no ques-
tion. Lizzie always addressed her and re—
ferred to her as Mrs. Borden, and in for—
mer years had hot words with her not in-
frequently. Betweeif Lizzie and her father,
on the other hand, there, were as many
demonstrations of affection as would be
expected of two such people. The house-7
was acold and cheerless one even under
the most favorable circumstances, with
the atmosphere of severe economy all per:
vading and all things moving in narrow,
sordid grooves, Borden and his wife lived
happily enough, and Between Lizzie and
her-fathgr there were always kindly rela-
tions. ‘-‘ _.--.....
J Liquor Dealers Arrested.
ohn McDevill, r r' t f th
Grand Union hotel? J)? 11; or o e
the Stamford house, and John Thomas,
were arrested in Stamford Monday
afternoon, charged with violating the
liquor law. ‘ '
Hart Won’t Fight Lane.
Henry Hart, the capitol city pugilist,
who arranged to fight Harry Lane of
Bridgeport last week, has withdrawn
from the contest, so report comes from
Hartford. Hart’s parents object to his
posing as a slugger. Manager Beck will
at once look for another man to meet
Harry. - ‘
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Shocking Accident.
r .A shocking accident occurred at Nor-1
chh Monday. William B. Palmer, 70
years of age,living at the town of Pres-
ton, employed at the lumber factory of
Porter & Heath, had his arm caught in
the belting,and in an instant was hurled
to the roof. His wrist was snapped com-
pletely off, clean out, and the ' muscles
of his whole arm exposed. "
‘
Holt’s Body Found.
The body of young Albert A. Holt,
of New Haven, who was drowned by
the capsizing of his sail boat off the
New Haven lightship two weeks ago,
was on Monday found by Captain
Thomas Thomas of the oyster steamer
J. P. Thomas, floating face downwards
about half a mile south of the new
lighthouse. '
...
Hospital Benefit.
A large and well pleased audience
gathered at the Opera House, Monday
evening. The farce entitled “Popping
the Question,” under the direction of
Miss Dotha S. Pinneo was splendidly
presented, and was deserving of the en-
core which it received. The Operetta
of the “Seven Old Ladies from Laveno
dar Town,” under the direction of
Mrs. F. J. Curtis, and Miss Gertrude
Camp as musical director, was very
fine. A nice little sum was netted for
the hospital fund.
Norwalk Blood Tells.
Richard Nickerson,a former resident
of N orwalk, has been appointed super-
intendent of the New Haven Water
Works. Mr. Nickerson has for some
years been an engineer at. one of the
pumping stations of the Water Works
company,and his advancement was well
merited. His son, Herbert Nickerson,
who recently, in company with Mr.
Wolcott, opened a bicyclerepair store
on Main street, will succeed his father
as engineer at-the pumping station, at
the same time retaining his interest in
the Norwalk store. .
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Off Duty.
This morning Mr. Reed of the firm
of Reed & McKibben, \who are laying
the Tramway tracks saw fit to discharge
a Hungarian laborer. Thereupon t e
ganglnumbering thirty-five immedia-
tely stopped work. Mr. Reed had his
timekeeper take their time, and then
discharged them. To a GAZETTE re-
porter he said that he would-have a
gang of Italians at work in their places
this afternoon. And he said further
that it would be the last time that he
would ever have :a Hungarian in his
employ. They picked up their tools
and marched to Whistleville where
they will hold a mass meeting and ap-
point a committee to hunt up another
job for them.
The Jury List.
The joint board of the Justices of the
Peace, Constables, and Selectmen met
Monday afternoon, and» selected jurors
to serve in the higher courts. There
was but little "competition” for a posi-
tion on the list, as the average citizen.
unless he be a constable or a Justice of
the Peace, does not care to serve. The
following is a list of those selected:
Tallmadge Baker, Charles R. Town-
send, Theron G. Lockwood,_ W. H.
Swords, D. P. Morrell, William M.
Raymond, James Sutherland, John J.
Hanlon, Bernard Tully, F. S. L on,
William McMullen, Thomas McMu on,
George L. Northrop, Edgar N. Sloan,
Wallace Darin, Charles Olmstead, Lew-
is Tattle, 2nd, Joseph R. Raymond,
George D. Keeler, John F. Darrow,
Edward E. Gorham, Charles E. Burr,
Robert N. Moorehouse, G. A. Franke,
E. A. Woodward, C. F. -Tol_les, John
Crookett,J. W Hamilton, Timothy J.
Howard, J r., Edward Magner, Robert
H. Rowan, Bernard C. Feeney, Thomas
H. Burns, Charles W. Lockwood, Ed-
ward Barrett, Leslie L. Sherwood, Al-
fred A. Martin, Henry Malone.
Amusements. .
OPERA HOUSE.
The Meyer'Thorne Comedy Company
opens for a week’s engagement at the
Opera House, to-night. The opening
drama.‘ Miss Bonnie Meyer, the talent-
ed emotional actress, Will appear in a_
leading character. The company has
enjoyed large houseswherever it has
appeared, Iand has. given the best of
satisfaction. It enjoys .
of being one of the best repertOire com-
panies on the road. Encourage them
with a big house.
.6.
Fleeing in Terror from Cholera.
river people are" dying by thousands.
fleeing from the pest: The panic has _be«
the infection. The fugitives from stricken
.
. Barlow of .
Dennis Hanrahan and John J. Curran, -
play will be “Lynwood,” a-great Wan
came so ’greatthat few families wait to: 3 ;_
bury their dead or even to nurse their
sick, butflee to the next towns to escape; .
smssyaeseswwwswstws ’ .
William Moore, 2nd, Samuel Daskam, ,
the distinction .
CoxsraxrixorLE, June 6. —-Reports from _
several’ cities of Asiatic Turkey say that”, . - 3
the cholera has appeared in many, dis- f ‘
tricts, and is spreading rapidly. Along :_
the lower Tigris and the Shat-El—Arab r:
Whole villages have been deserted by those . it
towns are spreading the epidemic with up 1 i "
pulling rapidity. Letters from, Bessora ” '
City say that 70,000 persons have'fied from. 1
Bassora provincealone. . ‘ 1, »
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