State of Connecticut, during the ad
ministration of Woodrow Wilson, tin*
president ol tin* I’nited States, and
His excellency Marcus 11. Holcomb,
governor at Hartford, members of the |
state police completed the task of de- j
si roving—actually d-e-estroying. !
(juu worth of liquor, said liquor be- I
ing poured into the nethermost depths j
of tin* cavernous cellar at Tillinghast’s
stable, there to he absorbed by Mo
ther Faith, who craved not such a
[spirituous baptism, nor heeded it not
not to mention needing it.
Sergeant Robert W. Pridgeman of
j the state police told the story while
in this city Friday afternoon. The
Kingdom of Death that the Germans
claim t" have left behind them on their
retreat from tin* Somme battlefields
t<» their new Hindenburg line has
nothing in tin* way of aridness or
blasted hopes and blackened prospects
on the Sahara of thirst that the state
odieers have left along their trail in
tiie part of Plaintield where they have
been operating And there is wailing
there and gnashing of teeth and
parched throats and maybe, only just
maybe this may he one of the signs
that presages the approaching end of
all things, even to the destruction of
the world.
* In accordance with tin* require
ments of tin* majesty of the law.
Sergeant Pridgeman and Officers W
F. Jackson. Rowe H. Wheeler. A.
