New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-08-19
ATTACK ON
MOTHER and SISTER
Charles ("Chuck") Conner Held
Under Bonds for Brutal Assault
BOTH ARE In THE HOSPITAL

From Pummcling By Her Son
Sisters Jaw Is Broken and Her
Skull Is Fractured.
Awaiting trial on a charge of brutal
assault upon his aged mother and his
sister, Charles C'Chuck") Connors of
1O6 Beaver street is being held by
the local police in bonds of $3.50
fixed by Judge James T. Meskill this
morning. Connors is a we'll known
young man about town and one whose
name has already been inscribed on
the police blotter on several occa-
sions.
Mother Unconscious All Night.
The offense with which young Con-
nors is charged is one of the most
brutal affairs of it's kind with which
the police have had to deal, in a long
time, Apparently, without any pro-
vocation, he came home at 1 o'clock
this morning and at once proceeded
10 administer a terrible beating to his
mother, Mrs. Mary Connors, who is
ABOUT sixty years of age, and his Sis
ter Miss Katie Connors. Both were
attended by DR.. Joseph Walsh, the
police physician, at o'clock this
morning and he ordered their imme-
date removal to the New Britain
General hospital and it was not until
the middle of this morning that the
old mother, who was unconscious
from the time of the ASA ult, began
to show signs of reviving.
Says They Were Drunk.
Connors at his home at about
O'Clock this morning and he admit
ted to them that he had beaten his
omther and sister. He gave as his
reason that he came home at
o'clock and found them both in a
drunken condition.
Officer McCue, in reporting the case
at police headquarters. states he was
on Sexton street at 1920 o'clock when
he suddenly heard a bloodcurling
shrek as if coming from frenzied
woman. He stopped in his tracks
and waited for g repetition of the
cry in order to follow it to it's source
but ali was quiet. Proceeding along
his beat Officer McCue met Of
ficer Storey and Paul Helnsl<y
of 90 Beaver street at the
corner of Main and Lee streets.
They too, had heard Of the rumpus.
All proceeded to the Connors home
and found the glass in the door
broken out and Chuck standing in
the kitchen washing his fathers
bleeding hand in pail of water.
Asked what the trouble was the
younger man said: Pop cut his hand
with glass" Everything else SEEM
ing quiet the police withdrew.
A half hour later, however, both
officers returned to the house at 1O6
Beaver street, having been called there
by sounds of further fighting and
Brutal Assault Discovered.
Rushing into the house the two po-
licemen found Katie Connors standing
in the kitchen, her head and face COW
cred with fresh blood and her gar
Inents streaked with it. In a bed
room nearby they found the mother
lying in an unconscious condition on i
the bed. Her condition was pitiful.
Her gray hair was matted with blood. |
Her face was battered almost to a !
pulp. Both her eyes were blackened /
and one was completely closed and !
her head was swollen
The son admitted making the as
,ault upon the two women and was
aiken to the police station and locked
lp pending preliminary hearing
his morning. His only cause was that
ne found the two women drunk when
ne came home
DR.. Walsh Attended Victims.
Police Surgeon DR.. Joseph Walsh
vas hurried to the mouse and found
he condition of the two women to be
serious and that of the mother to be
critical Katie Connors' eyes were
,lackened and one was completely
closed from a blow and her Jaw.
which was greatly enlarged, was found
o have been broken from a punch
Several of her teeth had also been
knocked out by blows. The mothers
condition was even worse. All at
empts to bring about a return of
failed and not until al
most noon did she regain her senses
Mothers Condition Critical.
While the outcome of the older
injuries are doubtful it is
expected that she will eventually re-
over, but with her advanced years
hose attending her state that it would
ot be surprising if she succumbed
o the terrific assault to which she
Jas subjected.
Both policemen VINO arrested Con-
ors state that while he had been
rinking he was not drunk One in
Ormant told them the assault had
AIKEN place early in the evening but
his could not have been SO as Con-
Ors did not return home until /
'clock and the blood on the two wo-
len was fresh when the affair was
Investigated. /
CODuurS Pleads Chilly