The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-08
CLAIMS PRATT CARTED OFF
 HER HOME
Alleged That Fairfield Constable Evicted Mrs. Pucklaski When the Judgment
 Was Against Her Husband.
A Bunch of Tronble Because a Flying Stone from a Blast Lighted in Sauer Kraut Barrel and a Cat Ate Six DucklinqS.

Every since Roman Puckalski be- friended a stray cat and tried to do his own blasting at his home in Lenox RAghts there has been trouble in Fairfield. To-day PuckaIski's wife, Annie, added another chapter to the cat and sauer kraut episode that has been the talk of elite circles in Fair field, by joining the good old town in a suit for $7O0 damag ges brought against Constable Frank E. Pratt and Frank Timko. The constable is sued on his bond in connection with the case. Mrs. Puckalski wants Fairfield to make good because she claims Con- stable Pratt carted off her house to sat isfy a claim against her husband. That in taking the house he turned her out of a sick bed and pulled the Puckalski dcmicile through the family truck gar den, destroying the greater portion of the crops that were intended to keep the family during the winter just past.
 Sequot Heights reminds one of a the town line west of Mountain Grove cemetery. It is inhabited by sturdy foreigners and their families who don't mind a long walk to work in this city and do not want to pay city rents. Ro- man Puckalski is one of these. He bought one of the ttcity' lots last spring and built a little house for himself. A stray cat came along and
 
 had been around long enough to be re- ferred to as Puckalskis cat when a doz.k of ducklings which were brought into the world by a one eyed Plymouth Rock hen disappeared. It was claim ed that the cat had discovered the old hens weakness and had seized the lit tie ducks whenever they got to the lee ward of their mothers dimmed blink CT. The ducklings belonged to John Skdyzdlewsl<i the next door neighbor of Puckalski. Some one told the own CT of the brood that they saw the cat had been such a glutton that he had been seen with a tiny web foot stick ing out of his mouth.
 Skryzdlewski couldn't prove that PuA,kalski owned the cat and he was contemplating bringing suit about the time that his neighbor brought home a stick of dyhaFpite to blast a ledge of rock in his doortard. u
 R Puckalski -th1ught that the blast was going to turn put hewn stone he was mistaken for it broke the ledge into pieces of all sizes and Skryzd- lewsxf's house was showered with mis- | siles. One stone passed through the | side of the house and became inbed- l ded in the softest place in the house, | the sauer kraut barrel, which was | nearly half full.
 Then Skryzdlewski had good ground | to sue on. He coupled the charges for l the ducklings and the sauer kraut into | one charge and hoped that the case would be tried before a justice who lik- ed roast duck, pigs knuckles and sauer kraut. The case was actually tried before a Yankee justice, who only | allowed him $1O and costs. The judg- ment was secured against MT. Puck aIski and because he did not pay, Con- stable Pratt took a team of horses and carted off the Puckalski residence. Now Puckalski claims through his at torneys, Shapiro & Shapiro of this city 1a images because the constable did not find out who owned the house. Although the house was carted off early last summer the Puckalski's did not bring suit before because they have been too poor to do so. Frank Timko Is made a defendant because he oougf t the house and established a shop in it, near the Fairfield Chemical works. The papers were served to-day oy Deputy Sheriff Peter Doo1an and the case is returnable before the May term of the Common Pleas Court.