The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-31
GIRL, FAILING AT SUICIDE, PLACED
 UPON PROBATION
Emma Kuhast's Parents Accuse Her of Keeping Late Hours
 Her Denial.

Her of Keeping Late Hours
 Her Denial.
 Especial to The Earmer)
 otsatford. July 31-Emma Kuhuast. ths 1T year old daughter of MT. and Mrs. John Kuhuast Of Honeyspot road who tried to commit suicide last Tues day by taking paris green at her 'bench at the plant of the A.. & B. ffenksls CO, Connecticut avenue. be- cause she was Respondent over the 1llnees of her fiance who is said to have been struck by a bolt of light nipr during the severe electrical storm Of two weeks ago was haled before Judge Howard M. Curtis in the .Strat- ford town court charged with being incorrigible. Complaint was lodged to the Stratford authorities by her parentA Judge Curtis placed her in cafo e4 the Bridgeport Probation of 1icer. Mrs- Isaac Burgess. for stx months According to the story told by r her parents in court today. Emma has been in the habit of remaining out vary late at night Her mother said that 6onnettmes 1t would be 12 o'clock and later when she would return. Mrs. Kuhuast also told the court that she WUut out automobiling many times and when she came home she would toll her mother that she had been 0 ., picture show, Emma denied the alletations declaring that she only re- mained out of the house two nights h year until 13 o'clock.
 The girl testified that she was dis AailSsd from the Bridgeport hospital last Thursday afternoon and went di- rectIy home. When she arrived she was accosted by her father who told her to get out and look for another place. Emma began packing all her belongings and when about to start her mother refused to let her go. She told her mother that she was going to live with her sister, Mrs. Peter Aldo, of Madison avenue. Bridgeport. The court srecommended that the girl reside with her sister for a while un- til she has fully recuperafed from her recent illness.
 At q recent meeting ot the board of fro commissioners Chief Allen D. Judson was granted two weeks va- cation. The chief and his family left today for Milford Point where they will spend the following two weeks. This Is the first respite from toll that the ire fighter has had in five years William Nichols q member of the de- partment will be the acting chief in the absence of Chief Judson.
 Miss Scelestina Newhall daughter 4f Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Newhall of Devon was married to David Young Qutst, son of Mir. and Mrs. YoungQuist also of Devon, Wednesday. July 2e. The ceremony took place at the resi- dence of Rev. Chauncey c. Kennedy, Main street Rev. MT. Kennedy was the officiating clergyman.
 Benjamin Comen. a motorist, who .gnve his address as Ansonia, Conn.,, was assessed $5 and costs in the Strat- ford town court today on the charge of passing standing trolley car at the center. Friday. July IA. Constable Edward Manchester made the ar rest
 A real estate transaction took Slace in, town last week when the Selleck mknsion. located on North Main street. changed hands. The pur- chaSer was c. J. Laughlin, formerly of Buffalo, N. r., who is now summer ing at Woodmont. The price paid for the property consisting of an acre and a quarter, was $12,500. It is the intention of Mir. Laughlin to develop the land and sell lots for building pur- poses. He will have the mansion re- modelled and reside there with his family in the fall.
 The house was built in 1872 by eEdward A. Allen at cost of SAP, 300. It has 20 rooms some of which are of unusually larged imensions. It is said that the fire place, coal bins. closets and wine cellar cost $10.000. The barn in the rear was erected for $6.000. It took two years to build the house and 1t is said that not a piece of lumber of any description which contained knot was used
 Twenty years ago the residence was purchased by the late Judge Andrew leelleck, who lived there until his .ssdeafh in 1907. His daughter, Mrs. 1Ilillias selleck, has resided there since. The home is noteworthy throughout town as m1ny lawn fetes and enter Jtainments of various kinds are held on its spacious grounds. Mrs. Selleck will leave town in few weeks after (which she will travel extensively in the South. She will make her home fin Norwalk.
 4 At a meeting of the Stratford Woman Suffrage association held re- gently plans were discussed for the fall work. It was decided to hold a "dollar meeting"
 William stagg of Harris street, who has been i'll at the Bridgeport hos Ipital, has returned to his home.
 t The firm of The T. A. Scott Dredg- ling Go. will bury the man known to lthis fellow employees as Big Mike" l" Iwho was drowned in the Housatonic river last Friday when he fell from a Eharge used in the construction of new 'Edocks for the American Brass Go. Hhs dsad man was positively identi- Ided yssterday by- First :, selectman