The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-10-22
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Redding, Oct. 22.-If Frank Vale
rio, the contractor building the trunk
highway, carries out his declared IN
teT.tion he will sue the town of Red
ding for $4,000 on the claim that he
from delay in his construction oper-
atoms arising from the prosecution
last week of two of his employees for
stealing a dog. The entire loss of
time suffered by the men was hardly /
more than one day so that they must
be a very valuable cog of the road
building mechanism. Their line of |
work is operating the truck which |
spreads the oil. Contractor Valerie |
maintains that the authorities had no
legal right to arrest the men because, |
gagged in work for the State and also
because the truck from which they
were removed is State property. Ear
lier in the history of the case the ac-
of them, Joseph w. Smith, thereby
juStifying the resistance which he
offered to Deputy Sheriff Banks.
Albert Silsley, the other defendant,
who claims that his father is lawyer
| in New Jersey and who is said to be
himself professional pug1l1st using
the ring pseudonym of Sailor joe"
was especially prolific in dispensing
law of the "f1reside'' kind. In the
first place the dog in question could
not be the subject of theft because it
was unlicensed. Furthermore he did
not in fact steal the dog. He was
not only immune from arrest because
| he was on State property doing State
work, but had additional immunity
because the trunk highway was a
| Federal aid road. He did not care
| for a lawyer to defend him in the
| justice court because he was going to
make his real fight in the higher
| court to which he intended to appeal
and the in i'll Sfica done him
| the preliminary stage of the affair the
greater would be the amount of dam
ages awarded him through the civil
| suit he proposed bringing against
everything and everybody concerned
| in the outrage.
| From the fines imposed on himself
and companion they did appeal and
| were temporarily released from Gus
tody on the understanding that they
| would forthwith return with their
| employer as, their bondsman. AS
they failed to fulfill this agreement
| Sheriff Banks started out for them
| last Thursday to convey them to Jail
| by virtue of a mittimus warrant. On
| the way he met Contractor Valerie
who settled the matter by payment
| of the fines and costs amounting to
| about $50. So far papers have not
| been served in Mr.. Valerio's threat
ened suit against the town. If his
| peculiar legal theory is correct the
public in this locality would be war
ranted in asking from the State some
special protection against State road
| workmen inclined towards lawbreak
ing.
The adjourned town meeting last
Saturday afternoon accepted without
! amendment the report of the finance
committee and voted the appropria-
| being $2S,11 Last years total was
s27,047. Among the items of this
years budget is $4,000 for permanent
improvements of town highways, a
fIrr~ tod loo <,,-,e. 7Serf
| This years appropriation for schools
| is $500, an increase from last year
of $1,700 which is called for by sal
| airy increases to the teachers and the
further additional expense attendant
upon the hiring of school nurse.
The nurse question was expected to
provoke considerable discussion, but
produced only a mild criticism of the
school committee from F. A. Judd
| because they had hired a nurse under
the title of teacher of hygiene
without having received the authority
they had asked from a town meet
xlg last summer. The empowering
resolution, tabled at that time was
recalled Saturday and passed by q
unanimous vote, thus sustaining the
| committee. The meeting voted tt
| change the hours of keeping the polls
open on election day, the new sche
dule being from $50 a. m. to p
m. The time formerly was from
a. m. to p. m. The former road in
lspection committee, consisting Of w
&c. Sanford, Eugene Adams, F. A. JUDI
and the selectmen, was reappointed
OF those sentenced for felonies il
the United States since the war thu
majority were under 21 years old ant
minors also constituted a still large
percentage of the culprits arraignet
for lesser attractions of the law
Judge Cropsey of Brooklyn, lecturint
at the Mark Twain Library last Sat
urday evening, made the above state
ment and said that the figures h
quoted in confederation showed TIN
alarming prevalence of juvenile de
linquency. Enrolment and trainin.
in the Boy Scouts afforded one Of tn
best agencies for correcting the evil
but the streets of Brooklyn ant
other cities were overrun with boy
of wayward tendencies who had no
been so enrolled because of lack O
men to perform the service of volun
teer leaders in the movement. Con
ditions would not be bettered unit
a larger part of the adult population
Responded to the moral obligations
and respo:. >Sibilities pertaining to pro
per sense IF community service. Rev
| tional church in Georgetown, asked
the lecturer if the influence of reli
gion exerted by the churches wa
not an agency in keeping youth from
evil ways. Undoubtedly so, replied
Judge Cropsey, adding that during hi
- four years experience as District At
torney not one of the youthful Grim
inals he was called upon to prosecute
l. was a Sunday school member. Mos
d of the youngsters who went wron,
O had little moral guidance o