Milford chronicle., 1917-10-26
ANSWER TO DR.. CARLISLE.


The following answer to Dr.. L. L.
, Carlisle's letter, which appeared in
the issue of this paper on October u,
1917, is printed for general infOrma-
tion, as the other size Of the affair:
/ wish to correct the misstatements
made about me in this letter. l ap-
preached DR.. Carlisle in a gentle
manly manner and advised him that
one of his lights was out. He re-
piled, Il know it is out as l did not
light it," I then advised that this
was contrary to the State law mot
town law and that he should have
two white lights in the front and one
red light in the rear, and that he
would have to appear before the JUS
tice of the Peace. He at once be-
came very indignant and started an
argument. In the argument he ad-
vised me as to who he was, etc. /
then advised DR.. Carlisle that ! was
sworn officer of the law, that we
treated all alike and did not show
partiality. He then wanted to go to |
some garage to put the curtains on |
his machine, but it being of a late |
hour l advised the Dr.. that the gar
ages were usually closed and to just |
put his children in the machine and |
drive around to Mr.. Handy's office,
"a distance Of less than two blocks).
This he refused to do. l then told
him that he would have to go around
to the Squire's Office and he asked
for an umbrella, which / did not
have; Gt was not raining hard and
we had only a short distance to go)
Doctor then stated that he would not
go and repeated this assertion. II
then started to use force to take the g
Doctor around. He saw that meant {
business and went along without any
further trouble or argument. "a law
abiding citizen who submits to law '
when he is compelled to-. Dr.. Car g
isle stated in his letter that he would s
return to Milford the next day; this d
S an absolute misstatement, as this r
vas never mentioned. Furthermore, 9
lad DR.. Carlisle offered to leave a ~
ash bond l would have been quite =.
'lad to have accepted it and he could :,
ave returned home until he found
convenient to have returned to Mil
ord. M ~
The whole argument resolves itself ~
lto one issue. simply this: DR.. Car y
isle broke the automobile law. thru II
is own ignorance of the law (which &c
re cannot eXcuse). When he was No
Did of this mistake by an officer of re
le law he became abusive and un- in
Then through the col
INNS of this paper he tries abuse up 70
n the officer that enforced the law ic;
his officer is simply trying to keen wi
rder in Milford and vicinity by en- fr,
'rcing the town ordinances and the no
tate laws. We make mistakes az Fr
mes, but they are not caused pur- an
)sely, but solely in our pursuit of wi
ght. We are sorry for these mis- ,al
kes, but it is the most natural thing 80,
the world to be occasionally in the
rong, and we feel that the people
Milford and vicinity as a whole are
Hing to overlook these faults and
e ever ready to aid US in keeping
ilford as it should be. l have a wit COZ
'ss who will testify as to the truth ]
the above made statements and
ould the same thing happen again La
th DR.. Carlisle. he acting in the ent
me manner that he did during his J
ST offence, we would surely repeat. Br
there was no mistake made in his Mr.
Sc. n
DANIEL r. BAKER, wit
Chief Of Police vii