New Britain herald., 1916-03-06
KNIFE WIELDER IS SENTENCED 10 JAIL
TeamSter Who Stole S17.6O Is
 Fined $50 and Costs

Three months in jail is the penalty
 that Frank Murzak of 34 Orange
 street must pay for stabbing Paul Lu-
 mar in the back with a knife He l was arraigned before Judge James T. ! Meskill in police court this morning l and found guilty. When he was led l from the court room he was weeping l coplously as he thought of the long l dreary days he must spend in dur ance vile.
 Officer McCabe arrested Murzak last night. Lunar made a complaint to him and he went to the second floor of No. 34 Orange street but Murzak heard him coming and fled down the back stairs. The officer finally caught him hiding behind an ash barrel in the back yard.
 Lunar told the court he was stand ing at the corner of Grove and Orange streets when Murzak came upon him suddenly and struck him in the back Although he saw no knife, he declared he had been stabbed because instantly the blood began to trickle down his spinal column and investigation showed that his coat. sweater and shirt had been pierced by the keen blade of knife.
 John Savinsky, friend and com pan1on of Murzak, was the one how ever, who convicted the accused He sa1d the entire party had been to Horace street where a beer party had been enjoyed, Returning. he said they stopped at the corner of Orange ana Grove streets where Lunar shout ed he had been stabbed. Savinsky admitted under Prosecutor Klett's questioning that he had seen Murzak strike Lunar in the back. Murzak admitted striking Lunar but denies using a knife. He said he did not know why he did it as he was drunk.
 Tcamster Fined $50.
 William Stockman, a teamstcr for merly employed by Alderman M. Irv- ing Jester at his local coal yard, was fined $50 and costs and placed on pro- bation for embedding S17.6O from his employer. He pleaded guilty.
 A week ago last Saturday MT. Jes- ter gave Stockman $1O change when he began work in the morning. The man delivered several orders and took pay therefore until he had amassed the sum of $11.6O. Then he turned his team over to another man to take back to MT. Jester and he himself dis appeared. This morning he said he was drunk at the time and was sorry he had committed the theft
 As Stockman has a wife and four children, the youngest of whom is but seven weeks old and the oldest only eight years, MT. Jester offered to give him another job in his coal yard if the court saw fit to place him on proba- tiOn.
 Back To Reform School.
 If the Meriden reform school au- thorities are willing. Eugene La famme will be taken back to that in stitution tomorrow. He was in court this morning on a charge of drunken ness and breach of the peace. Early last evening he went into the Scenic theater in a drunken condition and while there created a disturbance by making insulting advances towards Helen Mitchell Of ficer Murphy arrested him.
 It is not improbable that an ar rest may follow this case on a charge of selling intoxicating liquors on Sun day. The boy was asked by Prose- cutor Klett where he got his drink He replied that he had three or four beers at a house on Lafayette street and paid fifteen cents for them An investigation will be made