Vol. VII Whole N0. 1555
WOMAN 'MURDERED.
Her Body I-‘ound on the Rail-
road Tracks at East
Norwalk.
It Was Taken to Raymond’s Morgue.
At D. W. Raymond’s morgue on
Washington street South Norwalk there
are the remains of We women both of
whom had suffered 9. Violent or sudden
death. One of the women was Georgi-
ana Sweet, who had died at the station-
house, a report of which will be found
in another column, the other was that
of a woman, evidently an Italian, who
had lost her life as the result of a mur-
derous assault.
As Conductor Manning’ s train was
going through East Norwalk at a late
hour last night, the firemen discovered
a body lying on the track and the train
was brouu ht to a stop. The moon was
shining brightly and the surroundings
were lighted up almost as brightly as
day.
The body proved to be that of an
Italian woman apparently about 30
years of age.
I Word was received at South Norwalk
of the ghastly find and City Marshall
John Paul, Constable Goodwin, Medi-
cal Examiner Burke and Funeral direc-
tor D. W. Raymond drove to the scene
and later brought the body to Mr. Ray-
mond’s morgue where it remains for
identification.
The woman’s face was covered with
blood and an ugly looking wound was
in evidence on her forehead and two or
three bad contusions on the back of her
head as if done with a sharp edged
stone. A stone flecked with blood and
which it is thought played no unimpor-
tant part in the woman’s death was
found, and an Arion ball dance pro.
gramme which was also covered with
spots of blood.
The body was found about 200 feet
east of what is known as the “white
bridge.” Investigation showed tracks
in the snow on an embankment near by
and bloody imprints of a hand as if
someone had stumbled and fallen.
This fact leads to the theory that the
woman had been foully murdered and
the body placed on the track in order
to conceal the crime. ..
This morning Chief Vollmer and Offi-
cer Pennington made an investigation
and traced footsteps in the snow from
the scene of the bloody tradegy to Han-
ford’s store where the trail was lost.
The woman wore heavy Congress
gaiters not unlike a man’s shoe, wide
stripped stockings and dark clothes.
One hand was tightly closed and cov-
ered with blood. It was not found that
any bones in her limbs were broken.
Conductor Manning says. “The wo-
man was murdered and then placed be-
side our track so as to make it seem
that the train had struck her. The
body was jammed up against the track
and one arm was stretched across a
rail. The head was crushed in on- one
side and was so placed against the rail
as to have it seem as if the wheels had
done the crushing in. We. would prob-
ably have run over her 1f the freight
hadn’t flagged us.
“In the out were the footprints of a
man down and up one bank in the
snow. There Were no other footprints
~no woman’s. The murderer evidently
carried the body down the bank,
jammed it up against our track, and
then went up the bank. No train
struck the body; it was no railroad
runover. We all saw that it was a case
of murder. The head was crushed on
one side .by some blunt instrument.
The woman was an Italian about 26 or
28 years old” .
Officers have been engaged ' on the
case and it is believed have secured evi-
dence of a convicting nature. Al-
thoughmo arrests have yet been made.
Her screams were heard by residents
near by where the foul deed took place.
It is learned'that the woman is not an
Italian as Was at first thought.
Coroner Doten who has held an au-
topsy is trying to bring about a thor-
ough investigation of the matter and
the oflicers are materially aiding him
to that end.
Surprising developments are expec-
ted before the case is closed.
The “Hops” Meet.
The Heptasophs held a regular meet.
ing last evening,which was attended by
-ex-Mayor James T. Hubbell and Mayor
Arthur 0. Wheeler. As can be readily
understood, the meeting was to the ad-
vancement of the glory of all mankind.
The diepnon was not served.
. Bounced. ,
William H. Jones has left the employ
of:Moses H. Glover the shoe dealer.—
Sentinel.’ '
THE ON]. Y EIGHT-PAGE ONE-CENT DAILY IN THE WORWJLKS.
Norwalk, Conn, Thursday Evening, February 18, 1897.
SGHOULMIEETING.
The South Norwalk Union
School District VotersTake
all Informal Ballot and
Adjourn.
Graniteville Casts the Largest Vote.
The meeting of the voters of the
South Norwalk Union School District,
at the Franklin street school building
last evening, was largely attended, in
fact the large school hall was packed
'to suffocation, many being boys who
had no vote 1n the proceedings.
Clerk Nelson Dickerman called the
meeting to order at 8 o’clock,and after
two votes R. H. Golden was declared
elected chairman. ,
Upon taking the chair Mr. Golden
called for the reading of the call for the
meeting which was for the purpose of
fixing upon one of the following pieces
of property as a site for a new school
house for a public school in said dis.
trict, to wit: That certain piece or
parcel of land known as the city lot,
that certain lot situated on the corner
of South Main and Concord streets, be-
longing to the Merritt estate, and that
certain lot situated on the corner of
Fairfield avenue and Cedar streets, be-
longing to George W. Carroll, and in
case a two-thirds vote cannot be ob-
tained in favor of any one of said sites,
to make application to the school vis-
itors of an adfioining town to fix upon. a
site according to the statute in such a
case made and provided; and to author-
ize the purchase or condemnation of
any site which may be fixed upon, and
to make an appropriation to pay for the
same; and to authorize the erection of
an eight-room addition to the present
Franklin street school building; and to
authorize the borrowing of any sum or
some of money which may be appro-
priated for any of the purposes afore-
said; and to transact any other business
proper to be brought before said meet-
ing.
As soon as the call was read Mr. J.
Donovan was recognized, and offered
the following resolution:
RESOLVED, That an informal ballot be
taken upon a site or sites in the differ-
ent parts of the city, each one to vote
upon the locality or site he prefers, and 2
that the meeting after the informal
ballot is declared shall proceed to vote
upon the two sites which receive the
greatest number of votes.
Mr. Donovan explained his resolution
in a short speech and was followed by
Col. Cunningham and S. C. Palmer,
the latter offering an amendment to
select‘ the Graniteville site to which
Robert Pearson added Woodward ave-
nue, and the chair ruled both amend-
ments out of order on the objection of
Nelson Taylor.
Another amendment was offered by
Edwin Adams, which also was ruled
out. '
Howard Holmes moved to lay the
Donovan resolution on the table, which
motion was voted down by a large
majority.
The chair then appointed John Mc-
Mahon, Howard Holmes, W. H. Smith,
Charles Smith and L. H. Nash tellers
and a vote was taken upon the Dono-
van resolution. as follows:
Whole number of votes. ...... 263.
Gramteville ............ V .....................
City Lot................: ......................
Carroll Lot ...... .. ......................... 25
Franklin Street ..................... 36
South Main and Concord ............... 4
Woodward Avenue ........................ 4
Scattering ..................................... 8
_ As the Graniteville site was not men-
tioned in the call, the City lot and
Franklin street were the two highest
under the Donovan resolution and the
Graniteville vote went for naught. Mr.
S. C. Palmer thereupon moved an ad-
journment, which was carried, and the
meeting broke up without having ac-
complished anything.
Another Hero Gone.
General Alfred Pleasanton, an ac-
count of whose death in Washington
yesterday will be found on page 7. was
a warm personal :friend as well as a
comrade of Major General D. N. Couch
who passed to the great beyond only a
few hours before the great Cavalry
leader. At Gettysburg,
tected the two flanks of the Union Army
from the Confederate attempts to turn
them. He it was who repeatedly but
unavailingly implored General Mead
for permission to dash after Lee’s de-
feated and fleeing army, and never
doubted but that he could have captur-
ed'all Lee’s long lines of transportation,
if not his army, with his daring troop-
ers, had he been permitted. He was
also the warm personal friend of the
Editor of the GAZETTE, from the out-
break of the war to the time of his
death.
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Mrs. William Sweet Dies» at
the South Norwalk Police
Station.
Was Found with a Companion Under the
Monroe Street Bridge.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. William
W. Sweet, wife of the dining room
sergeant at the Noroton Soldiers’ Home,
and Mrs. Samuel Gaylor, wife of the
well known sporting man, took the
train at Noroton and came to South
Norwalk.
Upon their’arrival at the South Nor-
walk depot they took a trolley car to
this city and visited friends on Wall
street. Here they sent for liquor which
both drank to excess, and when they
took Conductor Hannigan’s car on the
Street Railway line shortly before 7
o ’,clock both were intoxicated, Mrs.
Sweet being hardly able to navigate.
When the trolley car reached the
terminus at Monroe street, both women
got out-and started towards the steps
leading up to the depot platform. Be-
fore the steps were reached, however,
Mrs. Sweet dropped to the ground.
Mrs. Gaylor attempted to get her up-
on her feet but was unable to do so,
At this moment Ralph Webb and Wil-
liam Craw came along and the latter
went to the depot and secured one of
Solmans’ carriages driven by George
H. Knapp and Augustus Magner. Both
women were placed in the hack, but
not before Mrs. Gaylor had assaulted
Knapp, the driver. They requested
that they be brought to this city and
Knapp drove up South Main street.
When the City Hotel was reached
Mrs. Gaylor jumped from the hack and
ran into the hotel, going up stairs to
the parlor, leaving Mrs. Sweet in the
carriage.
Knapp, after Mrs. Gaylor jumped
out, drove to police headquarters where
Captain Gladstone was found, to whom 1
he related the story of the finding of
the women. Captain Gladstone and
Officer Riordan went out to the car-
riage and brought Mrs. Sweet into the
station house.
The hard breathing of Mrs. Sweet
alarmed Captain Gladstone and he sent
for Dr. J. T. Kennedy, who [imme-
diately responded. When the physician
saw Mrs. Sweet he said that she was dy-
ing and nothing could be done for her,
and within a few minutes she..had ex-
pired.
Captain Gladstone upon the death of
Mrs. Sweet. went to the City Hotel
with Officer Hall and placed Mrs. Gay-
lor under arrest. She was found in the
hall surrounded by a number of guests
who were trying to quiet her. When
placed under arrest she resisted and
screamed at the top of her voice, but
the oflicers succeeded in getting her to
the station house where she was locked
up. .
Medical Examiner Burke had been
sent for and upon his arrival ordered
the body of Mrs. Sweet taken to D. W.
Raymond’s undertaking rooms, which
was done and her husbandnotified, and
he came over later in the evening.
Word was also sent to Coroner Doten
of the sudden death.
Mrs. Gaylor at first refused to give
.either her own name or that of the dead
woman, but later told who her com-
panion was and Mrs. Gaylor herself
was soon after identified. She was too
much under the influence of liquor to
tell a connected story, but about 11
o’clock when visited by Dr. Kennedy
anda GAZETTE reporter, she had re-
covered sufficiently to relate all the par-
ticulars of her visit.
Mrs. Gaylor said that her husband
was sick with the grip and she had left
him at his home in fNoroton to go to
Stamford to obtain a plaster. On her
way to the station she met Mrs. Sweet
and the latter proposed that they come
to Norwalk, and she agreed. Upon
their arrival in town they rode to this
city and called.upon friends, and a half
pint of whiskey was procured and
drank. When they returned to South
Norwalk, Mrs. Gaylor said that Mrs.
Sweet was taken with a fainting spell
under the Monroe street bridge and a
carriage was procured and both got in.
Mrs. Gaylor’s memory failed j, her
from the time she got into the carriage
and leftit at the City Hotel, and she
does not remember what transpired
afterwards until she came to herself at
the station house.
Mrs. Ovid Friedrick who lives at No.
7 Wall street, this city, stated to a
GAZETTE reporter this morning that
Mrs. Gaylor and Mrs. Sweet; called
upon her yesterday afternoon about 4
o’clock. Mrs. Gaylor introduced Mrs.
Sweet as a friend. from New Haven.
Both women had been drinking before
*1
lor sent for a, half pint of whiskey
whichthey drank. Mrs. Friedrick also
said that they left her home some time
before dark, whichwould indicate that
they went to some other place before
going to South‘ Norwalk.
Mrs. Sweet, the dead woman, was. 45
'years of age and quite stout, and ac-
cording to Mrs. Gaylor has had several
fainting spells prior to the one last
night which resulted fatally.
Mr. and Mrs. Friedrick were noti-
fied of the sudden deathof Mrs. Sweet
and arrest of Mrs. Gaylor and went
to Noroton on the 10:25 train last night
and informed Mr. Gaylor, whom they
found at home sick with the grip.
Coroner Doten reached South Nor-
walk this noon and listened to the testi-
mony of Mrs. Gaylor, after which she
appeared before Judge Hubbell on the
charge of intoxication and was dis-
charged. The Coroner gave it as his
verdict that Mrs. Sweet died of appo-
plexy.
GENERAL COUCH B.URIED
Body of_ the Famous Veteran Laid to Rest
“ at Taunton, Mass.
After lying in state in St. Thomas’s
Episcopal church at Taunton, Mass.,
for nearly 24 hours in the care ofa
guard of honor, the remains of {Major
to Mount Pleasant cemetery, yesterday
afternoon, attended by many of the
men of the Seventh Massachusetts Vol-
unteers, whom he led from Taunton to
the seat of war on July 12, 1861.
The funeral assumed a public charac-
ter. At a special meeting of the city
government Tuesday evening resolu-
tions of respect were passed, addresses
were made by army associates and a
committee was appointed. to represent
Taunton at the obsequies.
There was a constant stream of visit'
ore to the church during the day to
view the. remains as they lay in the rich
oaken casket, hedged about by beauti-
ful floral offerings from the city coun-
cil, the Seventh Regimentalassociation,
the G. A. R, the division of Sons of
Veteransand numerous relatives and
friends. .
During the' funeral services, which
were conducted by Rev. Mr. Stone of
St. Thomas’s, the church was packed.
The Seventh Regimental. association
acted as guard of honor,when conveyed
to Mount Pleasant, the last Fasting
place, the Sons of Veterans also par-
ticipating in escort duty.
From 2 to 3 p. m., as "a mark of re-
spect, there was a general suspension of
business in Taunton and Judge Lilley
ordered thé session of the superior
court over which he presided, ad-
journed. '
interesting Meeting. .
At the ladies’ meeting held in the
Chapel of the First Congregational
Church yesterday afternoon. Miss
Talcott who has been a missionary in
Japan for twenty-five years gave a very
interesting account of her work there,
it was expected that Mrs. Frederick
Curt-is would address the meeting, but
she was unable to do so on account of
illness which was greatly regretted by
the large number present. Mrs. Noble
presided.
C.
Tax Books.
The City Clerk advertises in another
column, that the Board of-Relief of the
city, has returned the city tax books,
and that the same may now be seen at
his office. I
IIIIIIIIYIIIG ALOIIGTI'HE GOOD TIMES.
——To-morrow Will be Another Day of Rare
Bargains at the Boston Store,
Norwalk.
Be Among the Early Callers.
9 to 10 o’clock.
IOc cake Castile Soap 50.
5c card Hooks and Eyes 1c.
2 boxes of 3c Hair Pins for 1c,
10 to 11 o’clock.
Best Prints at 40 yd.
50c all wool Serge, black and colors,
one dress to a customer at 25c yd.
100 Hamburg Edging, by the strip
only, at 50 yard.
11 to 12 o’clock.
Ladies’ 15c Black Hose 90.
10c bottle of Amonia do, only one
bottle to a customer.
12 to 1 o’clock. -
70 crash and glass towelinlg linen 4c.
' Boys’ 250 Shut Waists 12 20.
1 to 2 o’clock.
39c Muslin Drawers 24c.
2 to 3 o’clock.
$1.00 four-button Suede Gloves,one
pair to a customer 50c.
3 to 4 o’clock.
$1 00 and $1.25 ladies’ wrappers 75c.
6c brown Muslin 3éc.
4 to 5 o’clock. -
Choice of any _ Coat in our store,
some worth $15.00 at $3.98.
5 to 6_ o’clock.j
25c two-quart Gaffes Pot 16c.
15: 54 loch Bleached Muslin 11c. '
they came to her house, and Mrs. Gay-
BQ‘ None of the above goods sold to
chlldren. .
General Darius N. Couch were taken
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arations are now being made to make the civic and military
Extensive prep-
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Thousands of visitors from, all over the United States wil
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George E. Allen, Alpha ................... . ................ . ............................. ' 1 600
William A. Wheeler, Twin City ....... ' ................................... . ...... ..
R. F. Cotter, Alpha ................................................ ...................... H
Leo Davis. Twin City. ............... -' ...... . ........................ . .
William Gunther. Orient ..................... ....................... ................
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