Putnam patriot., 1916-07-07
CITY COURT
Camera Man in Mix Up with Customer
Holiday Furnishes No Business


 morning. It was not the dog contend. ing for the bone for the dog is dead. It is said that it is often cheaper to move than pay rent, The owner of the dog thought it would be cheaper to re- move-the dog than to pay dog tax. So another spirit was despatched to the dog star, But the owner of the dog, who cut oil it's young life-just how young is mooted question-reck. oned without taking into considefa- ton the majesty of the law ss persont' fled by the dog warden.
 Peter Gardner, dog warden, com plained to the prosecutor that Peter Dumas, dog owner, had neglected to pay a tax on his dog. Peter Dumas, dog owner, was hailed into court and Peter ,Gardner, dog warden, was in court also, without being hailed Pe- ter Gardner testified that Peter Dumas had dog on which he had not paid A tax after he had been warned to do so.
 Peter Dumas said that he had killed the dog and anyhow 1t was not six months old. There was some other evidence regarding the dogs possible age, but no certificate of birth was in- trodueed into the record. However his honor was satisfied that the dog was six months old when It came to it's untimely death at the hands Of it's owner and sentenced the owner to pay sS, not for killing the dog, but because no tax had been paid.
 The cases against Hyde Smith of the Bradley theatre, and William Walsh, house manager of the Empire theatre, charged with allowing a boy under l4 years of age in their places, were placed on file after it had been stated to the court that the woman who made the complaint only wanted to have her boy kept out of the Itheatres and that the managers would see that this was done.
 Last Saturday morning David Good. man, who takes and makes your pic ture while you wait, for the sum Of a dime, took out license 10 mug the city's popuiace at two jitneys a head with Putnam's skyscrapers for back , ground. Walter Holda Of Putnam thought he would like to see how he would appear in the,eyes Of the came ra and posed for Goodman wearing his most pleasant smile but 1t was not the smile that doesn't come oil. In fact Holda thought Goodman's pictures were not good and refused to come across with the price. Goodman thought the picture was true like ness of his subject and attempted 10 l hold Holda until Captain Ryan could be called to arbitrate the dispute Hol- da refused to submit to peaceful meth ods and became belligerent. He struck | Goodman smashing his lglasses and 1 cutting him under the left eye. This was preliminary 10 a lively mixup. | Pete Demers, Putnam's star boxer and referee, came across the street from his shop. Fight fans gathered from all quarters. The mill wns not according | to any rules Demers had ever read, but l he aid not interfere. If decisions were allowed he would have awarded the go 1 to Holda. But as in many other box 1 ing matches the police stepped in and stopped the go, and the lightweighls had to go the police sstation under the guidance Of Captain Ryan. A special session of the court was held in the af ternoon when il was found that lHolda was 10 blame and he was fined @3 and costs of Sl.S0. Goodman was dis. charged
 Monday morning Judge Fuller dis counted Mary Heno's former sentence of 2l0 days by sixty per cent and sent her back to Brooklyn for 90 days and costs Mary was sent over from Dam ielson for seven months. She was Iib- erated. Saturday morning. She had been so long without aldrink that only little bit affected her, so she said.
 Officer Thomas Denning said he first | saw lut WOfuhH HthA tiAubtk Hs Ao"bNss day. He saw she had been drinking 1 and watched her go down Canal street to Pomfret and up Pomfret to near Lu. l cieris store. When he reached this spot he found that Mary had just han : ded an uppercut 10 one Of number ot men who were following her. Den l ,fno thouOhf if time that the WOun an went to bed so took her tosthe station and gave her a room. Mary started along all right but on Elm street deci- ded that she had rather take scare of 1 herself and told the officer she was go. ing to make trouble for him. She hit him, scratched him and bit him. She | grabbed his badge and tore il from his coat taking bit of the blue uniform 1 with 1t. She threw the emblem Of of l ice into the street and kicked iand l kicked until loaded into an automobile for the ride over the river. Thirty days and costs of s9.09 for intoxication, % days for breach of the peace, and So days for assault is the price Mary now has 10 pay for her midnight adyen- ture.
 Joseph Morin, Battey street, was before the city court this Thursday morning charged with intoxication and non supports The,compIsiant was his wife, Libbie. The couple have