New Britain herald., 1915-05-26
P1dfnviIle News JUDGE O'MEARA TO
 SPEAK AT BANQUET
Prominent LsNysIs Accept Invita-
 tioas to Address Catholic Club. YOUTHS DECIDE 10 STAND TRIAL


 Peace Charges, will Let Jury Con-
 slider Case-Senator Persons Auto
 Kills Boy in North Haven.
 Judge Edward P. O'Meara of New
 Haven has accepted an invitation to be the principal speaker at the third
 annual banquet of the Catholic club, l which is to be held at Lake Com
 bounce on Thursday, June 10. Judge l O'Meara is rated as an after-dinner speaker of unquestioned ability and the committee in charge of the ban quiet arrangements is highly elated over it's success in getting him to take part in the post prandial exercises.
 Attorney Thomas F. Ryan of Litch- field has also signihed hts willingness to give an address at the banquet.
 The club expects to make the affair
 the most mem orable in the history of
 the organization and committees are
 working energetically- for it's success.
 The club has members in Southington,
 Plainville and Bristol and the advance
 sale of tickets indicates that there will be a representative crowd from each place.
 Judge Joseph F. Dutton of Bristol has been selected to serve as toast master. Rev. H. T. Walsh of this
 place, who has taken a great interest in the club, will be numbered among the speakers. The committee has
 has also sent an invitation to Thomas F. Devine of Waterbury, minority y.-., {. I.-e-< l session of the general assembly. MT. ance, advising the committee that he will attend if possiblN
 l Special trolley cars Will be run to 1 Compounce to accommodate those who will attend the banquet. The l committee has made arrangements { with the Bristol and Plainvile Tram l way company to run extras" on that evening.
 Will Go Before Jury. Relatives of James McNaliy, Rich-
 ard Cafferty, Paul Leonard, Eugene l Parkinson and Frank Graham claim to
 have decided to permit the cases of
 the young men to go before a jury | during the June term of the superior
 court and it was said today that pleas of not guilty will be entered when they
 are arraigned next Tuesday. Their appeals will be considered this even ing at conference between the young men and their attorney, F. F. McDon- ough of New Britain.
 States Attorney Alcorn has prom l ised the local authorities to bring the cases to trial if the young men insist I on refusing to pay the dollar fines taxed against them when they were 1 convicted by Justice A. 1T. Condell of l breach of the peace.
 The parents of the young men de- clare that the state has not made out i case against them and they pro- pose to let a jury decide as to their guilt or innocence.
 If both sides insist a jury in the 1 superior court, for the first time in a ! few years, will be called on to con- sider. breach of the peace charges. As rule settlement of cases of so trivial a nature is usually made before
 the session of the higher court opens. Can Have But One Drug Store. Plainville will have but one drug store for some time to come as a re- suit of the action of the general as-
 sembly at it's last session, a law hap- ing been passed limiting the number
 of licenses to one for every three
 thousand inhabitants.
 George R. Byington holds the only
 drug license issued for Plainville at
 the present time, F. J. Prior having
 given up his permit over year ago.
 Under the terms of the new law
 drug stores now doing business will not be affected, .the measure having
 been drafted to concern only new licenses Consequently it will be im- possible~ to get a new drug permit here until the population reaches the six thousand mark. There IS no indi- cation, that the town will have any such growth for number of years at least, and, seemingly Judge Ewing