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For half a century, the Wilhams family have been 

 horse dealers and traders in Connecticut. When 

 Prince Williams, the head of the family, died, his 

 sons Dick and Belcher continued the business. Their 

 sister married another dealer named Squires. Her 

 sons took up dealing in horses. In 1918 one of them 

 named Belcher, when racing in Vermont, traded for 

 the black mare Sister Hal. He thought that she would 

 make a fair pacer but a win in 2:221/2 was the best 

 that was placed to her credit. 



This did not stop them from entering her at the 

 Windsor overcoat meeting. Her race was won by 

 Margaret Dillon in 2:171/4, Sister Hal being distanced 

 in the third heat. No one paid any attention to the 

 outfit other than to notice that the mare raced in 

 hopples with a big sheepskin roll for a shadow bhnd. 



When the association added a second week on ac- 

 count of Woonsocket declaring off, Squires entered 

 Sister Hal in a faster class with Princess Cecilian, 

 Tommy Hayes and King Bob. It looked like a crime 

 to take his entrance money. When the race was pro- 

 grammed, the members of the Williams family, none 

 of whom were ever known prior to that date to bet 

 ten dollars on a fixed race, were hopping around, 

 bidding for tickets on Sister Hal. Starting off at 

 five dollars in tickets that called for fifty, they were 

 so anxious to get their money on that they began 

 bidding against each other or men whom some of 

 them had selected to put on a little money for them. 



In a few minutes Sister Hal was alrhost even with 

 the field, in which there were three or four horses 



