New Britain herald., 1918-09-10
GOOD COMPANY IN POLICE COURT TODAY
Minister and Government Men
 Are Up on Charges

The presence of a clergyman, a representative of the federal govern ment and city official in police court this morning in the role of accused gave dignity to today's session of police court.
 tntton F. Davenport representa- tive of the federal government in the lapor employment bureau in ,Hartford was charged with assault on two boys At the request of his counsel, Attor- ney P. F. McDonough the case was continued until Saturday. Mir. Daven- port figured as q witness in the cases of two boys arrested at his instiga- tion for breach of the peace vester- day. MT. Davenport said he was pass ing the stone crusher on his place on stanley street and heard loud noises He called for the police and then stood guard to prevent the escape of the boys In reply to a question by Prosecutor Klett he said the bows were not in the building long enough to do any damage. When the police ap- peared one of the boys tried to run away and the other took refuge on the top of the crusher. Asked why he ran, one of the boys said he was not going to let Davenport get hold of him because Davenport hits every body. He didn't hit you yesterday, did he?" asked Prosecutor Klett. The boy answered, No, he didn't get a chance" The other boy said that Davenport threw a brick and hit him in the shoulder. Judge Meskil remark ed that he failed to find that there had been a breach of the peace and so he discharged the boys.
 Rev. D. c. Monroe of Hartford was charged with leaving his auto in front of a fire hydrant near the Hudson Lunch. Mir. Monroe said that he had been to consult with his counsel, Judge F. B. Hungerford and being a new owner of an auto was unfamiliar with the law. |If I had only stopped to think I would have known better said MT. Monroe. Judge Mesklll sus- pended judgment.
 Public Works Commissioner John E. Downes was charged with blocking the fire hydrant near the Hudson Lunch. He said that when he stop ped his auto he was not near the hydrant but when he came back later found the auto where Traffic Super visor Lanphere said it was. Some one had released his emergency brake. He was discharged.
 The Hudson Lunch fire hydrant was the center around which the case of Cassel Fito revolVed. He left his horse unhitched and it blocked the fire hy- drant Fto said he left it there while he went to pay an installment on a building lot. Judgment was suspend ed.
 For killing deer and not report ing. the fact within A hours to the game warden a fine of s25 was in- posed on Luigi Rinaldi. Game War den Pease said that he went to IFS Oak street, yesterday. and found parts of a deer under the ice box Then he went to the factory where Rnaldi works and charged him with the act Rinaldi denied the killing, but when shown the cut up parts of the deer admitted his guilt Rinaldi said that he killed the deer in his garden, shoot ing 1t in the head. h defense Rina1dl said that he did not understand what Pease said to him but know when he was shown the meat and admitted the killing.
 Drunkenness and breach Of the peace was charged against Fred MoritZ and he was fined $3 on the first count and $10 on the second. He smashed in the panels of a door at John keppfs house at 2 Prospect street.
 Howard O'Neil and William Gill of Hartford were committed to the re- at Cheshire for having stol- en two bicycles at the grammar school last Thursday. Gill got out of the re- form school a month ago after a sen- tence for truancy and O'Neil is on pro- bation for having tempered with a boat on Wethersfield cove.
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