New Britain herald., 1915-05-25
Plainville News
Officer Hart Prepares to Contest
 Conviction in Bristol Court.


 PROTESTS AGAINST HIS ARREST Argues That He Did Not Violate Law
 -Trumbull Funeral Held in Bridge
 port-Runaway Caught Here and
 Returned to County Home-Briefs.
 Indignant over his arrest and sub- sequent conviction for violating the has decided to contest in the superior court the decision of Judge w. J. Malone of Bristol, by which he was fined $5 and costs for delivering beer written order from. the owner to show that he was acting as his agent. The sheriff also held himself responsible for the fine imposed on James Lee, his teamster, and before the higher tribunal he proposes to seek the dis- charge of himself and his. employe.
 He has notified the Bristol court of his intention to appeal and it is prob- able that his case will be taken before States Attorney Alcorn in time to get it on the docket before the June term, opening next Tuesday.
 Sheriff Hart does not agree with Judge Malone in his interpretation of the statute governing the delivery of intoxicants and he is willing to allow jury to decide on the merits of his claims. Hence his refusal to pay the assessment of $43 levied in the Bristol court yesterday.
 The officer maintains that he is liveryman, and consequently recog- nized by the laws as common car Tier. He frequently rents his teams without making any inquiries as to what use they are. to be put to and he cannot understandA why he should be held personally liable for goods car- ried by them.
 In the case in question he admits having knowledge that beer was to be delivered, but he maintains that the errand of his teamster was legitimate inasmuch as he had been paid for the work and the liquor had been proper ly purchased He has done the same thing on other occasions and never gave a thought to the possibility or an arrest resulting His teams had never been held up before and he supposed the Bristol authorities recog- nized his right as common carrier to make the deliveries.
 [ When renting his teams to saloon keepers, who wished to deliver in For estville or Bristol, he always insisted on an agent, representing the. liquor dealer, accompanying him, as ne knew he would be violating the law by doing otherwise Serving a common car rier for an individual, he believes, is entirely different and he feels con- fident that the superior court will con- cur in this opinion. He has been ad- vised that the law covering this point has never been interpreted in the higher court and he now proposes to test the ruling made yesterday.
 Attend Trlumbun Funeral. ..
 Plainville Y as we'll represented at the funeral a isaac B. Trumbull, held this afternoo> from his home on Mill Hill avenue in Bridgeport, number of friends going from here to pay their respects to his memory. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Trum- bull of Maple street, and his brothers, John H. and Henry. Trumbull, were among the mourners at the services.
 Former Plainville residents, now llv- ing in Bantam, who are employed Tn. the -vanderpool factory, in which the unfortunate young man was interested, also attended the funeral \ making the trip from the Litchfeld hills in automobiles. The Bantam factory shut down at 10 o'clock this morning to give the employees an op- portunity to be present at the ser vices.
 The body was brought to Bridge port late yesterday. The steamer New York. which brought the remains of MT. Trumbull and eight other victims of the Lusitania disaster, arrived in port yesterday At the pier was Ai- bert H. Trumbull, one of the young mans brothers, who accompanied the body from New York to Bridgeport.
 With Rev. J. o. Ferriss of New York officiating, the funeral services were conducted at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the Trunabull home. The casket, which encased the body, was literally buried under huge floral trib- of Kensington have left for a visit to