New Britain herald., 1916-10-23
ARREST THREE MEN
 FOR STEALING AUTO
Boyle, Coyle and Sheehan Deny Charge Claim Police Frame-Up

Between liberty and jail is the sit uation confronting William sheehan, James Boyle and Thomas Coyle, ar ra1gned before Judge James T. Mes Kill in police court this morning on charge of having taken an automo- lille belonging to William Keeley without permission Sheehan faces an additional charge of drunkenness. 4As each of the men protested his innocence so vigorously this morning, the court continued the cases until tomorrow morning in bonds of $4O0 each that Deck Sergeant T. M. Hert- ing may be called in to give his tes- llmony. The minimum penalty that the court can inf1ict, if the accused are found guilty, is six months in jail, while the maximum penalty is two years. The accused admit that they were all drunk. but declare that Off, hcers McGrath and Horace Mercure who arrested them are framing them'' for jail
 Shoots at. Fleeing Men.
 William Keeley, who is a we'll known automobile man, told the court he left an eight cylinder Cole touring car in front of Janswick's drug store
 
 i1:30 o'clock and when he next saw it it was in Derison's garage. He said he gave no one permission to take the machine. Officer McGrath testi- fed that he was near Elm street when he saw Keeley'se car coming slowly along East Main street. He said it was barely moving and was going in jerks. Near the silent off, cer at the corner of East Main and Spring streets, he said, the occupants stopped the car. left it in the middle of the road and fled. He said he followed and caught Sheehan. Covle and Boyle and when he accused them of being in the car they told him he was crazy and they were not in the car. Officer Mercure took charge of Boyle, he said. while he tried to in. Guce Sheehan and Coyle to go to headquarters. They did not take kindly to the idea and ran. Called upon to halt, they ran only the faster Whereupon Officer McGrath pulled his gun and fired several shots at them If they were going fast before, thev won't even faster then and with the policemen in pursuit they ran up East Main to Elm street and through some Nackyards onto Hartford avenue where they were finally caught by Officers Moore, McCue and McGrath at Winter street. Officer McGrath de- clared he was positive that the men he arrested were the ones who had the automobile
 No less positive was Officer Mer- cure, who said he even spoke to Boyle near O'Nei's store on East Main street, advising him that the tail light on the machine was out. All Protest Innocence.
 Sheehan denied that he was in the automobile and said that he with his two friends had just come out of a hallway in Neri's block where they had been taking a drink when arrest ed. "I was drunkAand there's a little liquor down stairs that belongs to me, but I wasn't in any auto,' he said. Asked by Prosecutor Klett why he ran if he was not guilty he said, referring to the police. "I don't like them and they don't like me and I try to keep as much distance between us as possible.
 Asked why he ran away when the officer spoke to him. Coyle said. Ion general principals I've done that be- 1 fore to ave myself Boyle, too, en- phatically denied any complicity in the automobile episode. He said he | was not in the car and was not drunk, l although he had been drinking. ]
 Sheehan asked permission to ques- l ton Officer McGrath and then asked l him where he was standing when he 1 first saw the automobile At the 1 corner of Elm and Hartford avenue" l the officer replied. That's impos- i