New Britain herald., 1919-10-13
FINED FOR SALE
 OF DISEASED COW
Goriain Pays $10O and Makes
 Restitution for Damage

Upon the recon endatiOn of Prose-
 cutor George w. Klett, Judge James
 T. Meskill imposed a fine of $10O and
 costs upon David Gorfain in police
 court this morning on a charge of sell
 ing a COW which he knew had reacted
 to the tuberculin tests and was unfit
 for immediate slaughter. As this is
 the first case of this kind tried in the
 New Britain court the prosecutor rec
 omm ended that no jail sentence be inn
 posed.
 Sold Cow for $t55. Gorfain through his attorney, Will
 liam M. Greenstein, changed his plea of not guilty, previously entered, to d plea of guilty. The prosecutor ex- plained the facts of the case and told how Gorfain had taken his Jersey COW ] to Dairy Commissioner Holt in New ington for an examination. Commits sioner Holt found the COW to have tuberculosis and warned the owner against it's sale. He then took the COW to John Hoffmans pasture in this city and instructed the latter he claims, to sell the COW if buyer turned up. During the absence from the city of Gorfain, Hoffman sold the COW for 1 $155 to Joseph Reducka of Newing- 1 ton. Reducka, had the animal exam
 
 l from tuberculosis, so he notified Com ] missioners Holt and Whittlesey and at 1 their request the accused was brought l to court,
 l First Local Offcnse. l The accused claims no unlawful in- l tent, stating that while the COW had reacted to the tuberculin tests he had 1 reason to believe that it was not suf- 1 fering from tuberculosis. This morning l check for $135 to repay the damage 1 done to Reducka was given Prosecutor l Klett by Gorfain. Due to this fact and i the fact that it is the first local in 1 fringement on the recently accepted statute, the prosecutor was content l with a fine.
 l Tn arguing for leniency Attorney l Greenstein offered the reason now be- coming popular, that "the newspaper l publicity given his client has caused l irreparable damage" Directly after l that statement, in support of his eli 1 ent's good name, Greenstein said many l of his former patrons have signified 1 their willingness to again trade with l him.
 Stabbine Case Continued. 1 AS his victim is in the hospital and l will not be discharged for over a week, l the case of Thomas Nappi charged with assaulting Charles Asal, has been continued for two weeks. Asal is un- dergoing treatment for knife wounds in his abdomen which he claims were inflicted Saturday night in the Park hotel during an argument with the man now held for the assault. Nappi has, however, entered a plea of not guilty and claims that he did not use a knife on Asal.
 Fight in Hotel. The trouble took place on the top floor of the Park hotel and according to Asal he was knifed during a tussle with Nappi He was found shortly afterWard in a pool of blood by one of the employees of the hotel and the po- lice were notified. By the description furnished the officers, Officer Joseph Kennedy arrested Nappi near the rail- road station a few minutes after he had made his escape from the hotel
 by swinging out of the window on rope.
 Unless complications set in, the condition of Asal will be regarded as
 not serious. The accused has fur
 nished a bond of $200 to appear in
 court to answer the charges.