New Britain herald., 1918-01-19

DI1on, paying 20 cents for~ Fdrink for gin and whiskey and 15 cents bottle for beer
 Holding up a gin bottle, Liquor
 Prosecutor filling asked her if she
 recognized the bottle and had ever
 taken a drink from it.
 Deed ah does. Yas sah ah done
 drink outa dat bottle-and ah good
 many mo too, sah.'
 Asked if she had paid for her drinks
 the "Virginny gal said: Deed ah
 did, judge yer honor. An done paid
 fo' every drink ah had-and ah just
 wishes ah had every dollar ah done spend at his here place now"
 Furthermore, the gal" said that
 Ion the night he done choke me he
 says dat he am cripple and can sell booze and if ah tole about this here speak easy he shore would take me to Hartford with him." Asked if this conversation had taken place att the
 time of ahe alleged assault, when
 Heddelson claimed that she attacked him with a knife, the woman waxed indignant.
 1 "Ah didn't have no knife, judge yer | honor, but if ah did have a knife ah
 would a come right daown on his big
 
 would let no man like him choke me, judge yer honor,' she said. Asked on what day she had seen
 Heddelson sell beer the witness re-
 piled: What day? Why any day atall He don't have no special day
 to sell beer"
 Lawyer w. F. Mangan, representing Heddelson, asked the woman if 1t wasn't true that she was mad at his
 client and was simply trying to black
 mail him. '''Taint so, judge yer hon. or fo' he did steal ma money. If Ida wanted to blacknail him ah had plenty O. time. No sah, he just as
 saulted me so ah come right here to the court to the lieutenant like lady for protection. That's what ah did, judge yer honor, ah come here fo'
 protection and here ah is now in jail
 Jesse Adams, another colored man, testified that he had purchased drinks of Heddelson and two other young 1 co1ored boys likewise testified to the 1 characte of the accused's boarding house.
 Detective A. J. Richardson said l that when he searched Heddelson'S s | house he found numerous bottles and l glasses and several demijohns. The accused however, valiently protested his innocence and said that the bot 1 ties were bottles he had collected to 1 sell. Any liquor in his house, he said, l was for his own use or for the enter tainment of his friends who visit him | on holidays. A special demijohn that | savored strongly of whiskey was pointed out and accused said it con- | tained whiskey and was brought to l him "p1aipvil1a The "Plainville gal'' was called to the stand. She said her name was Nellie Williams and she certainly had seen the jug before, in fact had brought it from Plainville when it was full of cider. She did not know what else had been put in it since that time though, she said Judge Kirkham remarked that evil | dently Heddelson had been running bad place and a fine of $40 and costs was imposed.
 Bob Veal Man Fined. Nicola Messena was charged with l selling bob veal and pleaded not guilty 1 pr. B. D. Rackliffe testified that on | Thursday evening he found the car
 cass in the cellar at GA Lafayette
 street, where it was evidentally hid den. Messena told him, the doctor l said, that he got the calf in South 1 ington where he butchered it as he
 got it too late to take it to the local l slaughter house. The veal weighed l only 54 pounds when it should have
 weighed 60 pounds or more, the doc- l tor said. In his conversation with the inspector, Messena said he had plan | ned to take the carcass to the
 slauhter house on the following l morning to have 1t inspected and l stamped. Policeman John Carlson also testified to finding the alleged 1 bob veal. Messena, in his own defense. 1 said that it was in Newington and not Southington that he bought the calf. The farmer told him the calf was 4 weeks old and it looked as though it weighed 100 pounds or more. Inasmuch as Meat Inspector Dr.. Charles Witte had ordered butchers not to bring animals to the munich pal slaughter house after p. m. and on this account he butchered the calf