Norwich bulletin., 1911-05-23

Cleveland of State Police, Who Masqueraded as Laborer-Psrsonai Tax Neglect Results in Fine. A new high record of fines and costs assessed in single day was set in the town court of Kfiifngy Monday, when Judge Harry E. Back fixed charges against vioIators of the liq uor laws in excess of s1,6Ge.
 The days session came as a sequel to the roundup made by the state po- lice Saturday night. A crowded court room heard the evidence in the cases. One hundred dollars and costs on each count was the basis of settlement in all cases except those attended by ex tenrating circumstances.
 Frank Auqer's Fine and Costs $700. Frank Auger, Putnam, who has been doing business for the past three weeks in the basement of the Evans building. pleaded guilty to seven counts, five of them actual sales to Herbert w Cleveland of Plymouth, Conn, S1pernumerary member of the state police force. he having been here for about four weeks as a 1aborer
 known as Frank Wilson" the other two counts being for keeping open a place and bar where I. was reputed that liquor was sold and keeping with intent tossell. He was fined $100 each on all of the seven counts. which with the costs made a total assessment of $740.02. Auger appealed to the su- perior court but were unable to fur nish the bonds nxed by the court at s1,0e0.
 Homer Bruso in Jail in Default of Bonds.
 Homer Bruno, arrested Monday morning as the result of the evidence furnished against him by Officer CIeve- land, was found guilty os, paving made two actual sales of whiskey to Cleve-
 land on days during the past two weeks, was fined $100 on each count and costs. He also appealed to the superior court, the court fixing his bonds at $500. in default of which he
 was committed to the Jail at Brook 1yn to await trial Officer Cleveland key of Bruno. The latter cenied this claiming that he had never seen Cleveland in his life until he looked upon him in the court room. Bruno has been living at the boarding house kept by Mrs. Elizabeth Chase in the Johnson building opposite the Alta waugan hotel This was one of the four places raided by the state police Saturday night. they securing there a market basket full or empty wh;s- key bottles and one haf-pint bottle Of
 whlskey. Bruno denied that he has done any illegal selling Of liquor. He said he was in Putnam when the of- ficers were making the reid
 ,.sts Contin-o5
 John Conaors. 20 and Fred Boulas, | 27, of the West Side, who were ar l rested whii. 'tishing out beer to a part, of sbstt 20 m s. asssr bled in l rile grove rts,i the % Il Spring off Dyer street, had their cases continued 1 upon payment of costs. amounting in l each instance to s25-40 Officer Cleve- land testified to having bought and i paid for drinks of beer from both of | fhnf7 md toe hat or, 1 tiated by Officers Jackson of Willi- mantle and Bridgman of Rocky Hill ! It was admitted by both Connor and | Boulias that they had each bought
 keg of beer in Putnam Saturday night l and that they had had it shipped to | Danielson by express. Bouiias said | that he had taken his neg to his home I on the West Side. The evidence was i such as to show that the two men had been receiving money for beer l that they were passing out to a party | gathered in the woods to drink up l the keg. Neither man had ever been l arrested before and it was not shown | that they were habitual violators of | the liquor laws.
 Connors is little more than youth. | He is employed in the mill at Waure- ] gan. He has always borne a good | reputation here and expressed regret at the predicament in which he found himself. In view of the circumstan- l made the disposition noted. He said | to <Conrors that he was willing to
 allow him an opportunity to do as | well as he expressed a wish to and
 that he had no desire to fine or punish | him, but the town had been put to an expense of s25.40 and he would | expect him to make it good l Judge Back also had something to l say to Boulias, mentioning among oth- i er things that if he were to fine him | l. IL l | gree of severity as in the other cases. l The court, however. made 1t clear that l such cases as brought Connors and | Boulias into court are not to be re- 1 garded as a class that will be lightly | dealt with and that he did not want l anyone to get the idea that in such | instances they could come into court claiming that 1t was the first time they l had done such thing and be let off.
 Scored Doings in Evans Basement. In addressing the court relative to | the Evans building basement before
 sentence was passed in the Auger case, | Prosecuting Attorney A. c. Bill said | that the place has been source of I trouble to the citizens of the town 1 for more than year. Auger, he | continued, must have known of the | fact. Open and notoFrous violations | of the law were regularly made there | and liquor sold in enormous quanti-
 
 ! behind barred and guarded doors, 1 which would only be opened on signal. Attorney Bill asked for a penalty suf- | ficient to stop the nussance
 Beer Found at Terzis' Home.
 The case of George Terzis, also ar rested in the state police raid of Sat
 urday night, was not reached until ! the afternoon session of the court. Terzis was represented by Attorney W. F. Woodward, he4being the only one held for violations of the liquor law | that had employed counsel. A keg of beer was seized az Terzis' home on the White row at the time of the 1 raid.
 | Found Guilty.
 A number of witnesses were intro duced to prove that the keg seized at | Terzis' was to be used Sunday at a
 birthday celebration ana was not to lbe sold Terzis was found guilty, l however of having made a sale of l beer on April 2s to Officer Cleveland
 and the Sc transaction cost Terzis s100
 and costs, amounting to $11S.s2, which
 he paid.
 NEGLECTED PERSONAL TAX
 So It Cost John Smith an Additional
 S8.69.