Show A bax thomash capalin Ca of tiding H hu bat aai perm iii sixty bairs DANBORY conn march 11 john fratt accompanied by his brother broth tr william the nerson to whom he has spoken in sixty years into police headquarters this mornine and give atin belf up he was charged with ah atins james morrow he made no reply to the charge and all efforts of judge and attorneys failed to elicit a response when clerk holmes alkul him to plead wrote on a carl not guilty and handed it to jude hough pratts explanation of the beine an accident ft as accepted by the court and pratt was dia left the court room follow edby a crowd he conversed freely with his brother but in whimpers apers and never without joiret taking precaution that he should not oe morrows face and neck i was filled with shot but he is not seriously injured morrow IB satisfied the eho otine was an accident and congratulated pratt on hia acquittal pratt however made no reply and only smiled john pratt on friday afternoon fired a abarre of bird shut into james morrow while trying to shoot a dog when he sa T the man fall to the ground bleeding he disappeared although it was well known the shooting was an accident a warrant was issued for arrit pratt is perhaps the moet peculiar man in the world to day during the sixty years of his life he haa been dumb vet so far as one person la concerned be is in full possession of all his faculties that person is his brother william who is several years his senior and for whom john has a pronounced affection john baa spoken a word to any living person except hafl bi other william with him he converses fluently and with freedom but always assures himself that there ia no other listener with in hearing he has been married twice ills ecung wife ia bow living no children blessed either union the efforts to entrap john into conversation have b een many and ingenious but never hia hearing is unnaturally acue although he lived with his first wife many years he never spoke to her if he had oc cassion to communicate with her he aldaya did so in when she died be soon afterward made her eviatar his wife but ahe had no better success in making him iciak many theories for his eccentricity are advanced but even his brother ia unable to satisfactorily account for nis singular conduct he certainly ia ft marvel among men |