New Britain herald., 1918-12-07
PLAINVuLE NEWS
BOY VANDALS ARE
TRIED IN COURT
Two Sent to Reform School Tor
Breaking Into Bungalow
REORGANIZATION DRIVE
REORGANIZATION
PIatnviIle to Cooperate I'm Statewide
Campaign for Better Citizens-First
Items.

Harold Sloper's bungalow. on what
is known as Sunset Rock in PIainville,
Thursday afternoon and when they
had finished the damage amounted to
5000. The place was completely
wrecked. The boys who committed the
deed were unprecedented by the police
and six of them were arrested by the
Plainville authorities. The size OF the
boys made everyone who saw them
wonder how 1t was that they were
strong enough to lift the heavy in
struments which they used in the do
struction. From the methods used
and the reckless manner In which they
went about the affair, the blame is
laid on the movies, where such deeds
are often pictured. The youths were
tried in the town court yesterday aft
ernoon and two Of them were COM
Gifted to the reform school in Meri-
den, They presented an amusing
sight when they were seated in front
of the judge, for their heads hardly
reached over the tops of the chairs.
The boys and their sentences follow:
Henry Gagner, allowed to go on
pawn nt Of costs; Lewis LOOMS,
found guilty and sentenced to reform
school, but Judgment was suspended
and he was placed in care of Proba-
ton Officer Connolly Of New Britain;
William Ralph and Garland Daniels,
who proved themselves led on by the
others, were allowed to go free; Roy
jacksonville and Leo Oku1a were
proved to be the ring-leaders and were
sentenced to the reform school. Mr..
Sloper showed ost kind manner in
court and stated that he did not want
to see any of the boys suffer. He did
say, however, that his house has been
wrecked SO often he is determined 1t
shall cease. Judge Condell was on the
bench and it was the first time that
court session was held in the newly
constructed town hall. The new court
room Is q great Improvement over the
old one. The arrangem ent is similar
to city courts where the judges seat
and the prosecutors seat are on a
platform.
characterization Movement
Plainville will Cooperate in the
state campaign for Americanization
A committee has been appointed to
serve in this town and united effort
will be made to have as many of the
foreign element become citizens as
possible The work was started last
night when Joseph w. Alsop of the
State Council of Defense and H. H.
Wheaton, the state director of the
characterization committee of the
State Council OF Defense, addressed
the local committee. Both men were
Interesting speakers and explained In
a clear manner the work ahead of
the committee. They told Of the
purpose of this campaign for Ameri-
canlZatlon and told of the efforts
which will be made to interest all
foreigners who have not shown their
intentions Of becoming citizens. The
|. work of the Plainville committee, as
explained by these men, will not be as
difficult as that in other towns be-
cause of the fact that there are but
few nationalities represented here.
The majority of the people of this
town who will be reached by this
campaign are Italians and for this
reason several Italians were placed on
the committee in order that they
| might cooperate and make the cam
paign moro successful. The popula-
ton Of this town, unlike nearby cities,
is not made up of men of all nation
alities.
The Plainville committee on Am
ORGANIZATION is as follows: Merritt
o. Ryder chairman; Henry Trum-
bull and r. 3. Bennett representing
the manufacturers Frederick BulIen
of the school committee; William
Cafferty, William Foran and Anna
Granniss. Miss Granniss was
named on this commit
tee because of the amount of work
along these lines which she had hone
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