The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08
PRESIDENT GIVES REINSURANCE TO
 HONEST BUSINESS
BRANDECEE HELD FOR TRIAL UNDER
 BOND OF s5,OOO
Housekeeper for Wealthy Resident Gives Bail for
 Shooting Up Hotel Atlas

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 For running amuck on Fairfield ave-
 nue lastk night in real wild. western
 style, shooting up of the Hotel Atlas
 and attempting revolver practice or Policeman Mendelssohn,s William s.
 Brandegee Of .Seabright avenue, Black
 Rock, wealthy yachting and automo-
 bile enthusiast, factory owner and man-about-town, must stand trial at
 the February term of superior court.
 Arraigned on a, charge of assault with intent to kill upon former Special Po-
 liceman Harry Hart, now employed as
 doorunan at the Hotel Atlas, Braqde-
 gee offered no defense other than that
 he could not remember his antics
 Judge Wilder found probable cause and fixed bonds at. $5, 0oO. which were furnished by Catherine Labhart,
 housekeeper at the home of thesac-
 cused.
 Sitting in city court dock anlong
 those accused of far less serious of lenses, Brandegee, following night inl a cell, presented little appearance
 of a man we'll off Financially He ap- peared to be in daze. His right hand
 was heavily bandaged, a result of get ting the full force of Policeman Men
 delssohn's night stick when he at tempted to shoot. pr. Weldon, emer- gency hospital surgeon. examined the injury and found indications of a fractured bone.
 Brandegees said that, as one autono- bile enthusiast, he had dropped into congratula1e Prof. Atlas, a personal friend. and another auto enthusiast upon his recent lucky escape He adF 1nitted skipping the professor between the shoulders as a mark of congraI- ulations. The next he knew, he said, was when four husky walters had him in tow and propelled him outside. He fell and after that remembers noth- ing He said that the story of the g51Ea play was all news to him.
 It was not to the others, however Atlas told of Rrandegee'sS appearances under the influence of liquor, how he warned. him to be careful in his ac- tlons and how the visitor became very .vRrought.S It was then that the order went forth to get rid of him and he was thrown out bodily. No more wa.s he outside than ont came a .38-calibre revolver. and a steel-nosed bullet came crashing thorugh window and bur jed itself in the wall.
 The dining rooms were cleared in form Of shelter Two more bullets were fired, one bullet up the street and another down. No one appeared to dispute him, until Policeman Men delssohn ran up, attracted by the sound of the firing. Brandegee again drew but the locust stick handled by Mendelssohn landed. At police head quarters it was found that he had two other -38 calibre guns in his pock cts ready for business. One attempt to get him out of cell on bail was unsuccessful
 BraE1degee is well known by automo- bi1fsts and yachting enthusiasts gem orally He has a. palatial home in Black Rock, easily distinguished dur ing the summer on account of the vast number of international flags with which it is decorated. He also has a printing plan there that is known as the Seabright Press. Among his real estate Belongings is the stone factory building on Oak street which has been rented to manufacturers from time to time. His age is given as g years.