Republican farmer., 1920-05-07
Comes Here For Confer ence With Men-May- be Arranging Details For High Court Ses- siOn-Three of Last Four Cases Are Dis posed of.

Indications that further ac- ton in the vice crusade may be expected shortly were seen to- day, when it was learned that William J. Burns, chief of the Burns agency is in Bridge port for a conference with his men. None of the Burns men would disclose the nature of the meeting, and Mayor Wilson was also silent.
 Unless more arrests are made here, the next step in the crusade will be the prosecution of the raid cases in the Superior Court. It $ believed that Chief Burns was in town today for the purpose of arranging details for the higher court sessions
 The final chapter in the vice crusade, as far as the City Court is concerned, reached a conclusion this morning when three out of the four ] remaining cases were disposed of George Guardiola, of 372 State street, ! was sentenced to two months in jail ! and fined s1 and costs, on charges of violating Chapter TT, Section l, of i the laws of 1919, but the case was ! appealed under $150 bonds. Dioty 1 Demetri, proprietor of a coffee house | at the corner of South avenue and | Lafayette street, was arraigned on a. similar charge, but was found mot l guilty by the court. A fine of S25 l and costs was imposed upon Robert ! Gavigan, alleged keeper of a house alleged to be a gambling house. This 1 case was in connection with the raid at the Walters club in Main street
 Minor charges against hequenters ] were noiied.
 | Mary Wilson, the states star wit
 ness took the stand in the Demetri case, and stated that she worked for
 the accused in his coffee house at the | corner of South avenue and Lafay- | cite street. The girl said that De-
 metri offered to let her quit work
 early any evening when she v,iehed to go out with men, and on one occa- sion acted as a go-between for a number of men who wanted to see her and George Lewis, the man for
 whom the police are now searching. On the oss-examination the girl
 stuck to her original story. She work ed at the coffee house as a waitress
 for six or seven weeks, and received
 a weekly wage of SIS besides tips.
 On the evidence submitted to the
 court, Demetrf was found not guilty by Judge Frank L. Wilder.
 George Guariola, proprietor of 8
 rooming house at 372 State street
 was the next man to be -arraigned,
 and the Wilson girl was again the first ll witness to take the stand.
 According to the story which sho
 told the court May Wilson met Guar
 diola at the coffee house at the cor ! o-
 street, one evening about the first Of
 March. She alleged that the man ask
 ed her to come to his place in Statu
 street, telling her that there were no other girls in the place, and that she
 could make a lot of money.
 While cross examining the girl, At
 torney John Corr, counsel for Guar
 diola. accused her of having recently
 conversed with the alleged defec-
 tives'' and "so-calIed Burns men
 about the case. The girl admitted
 that she had talked with the Burns
 operatives recently, but reasserted that Guardiola was the man who met
 her in the coffee house and asked he' to come to his establishment.
 Taking the witness stand in his
 own defense, Guardio1a absolutely } denied the girls story, and declared that he had never seen her before
 He produced a receipt showing. tha' i he purchased the house at 372 State , street from Joseph T. Villa. on Marcf 30, and said that before that time he
 was employed on the night shift al . the Columbia Graphophone company | During the war he was employed a: : a carpenter in a shipyard near New London.
 2 Attorney John Corr asked for 6 ] discharge for his client, but Judge - Wilder was of the opinion that the case should be heard before a jury l. He fined Guardiola $1 and costs and imposed a jail sentence of two l months. An appeal was taken al i, once, and bonds were fixed at SJ 50. y The disposition of the GuardioIa f case leaves only that of May Wilson
 remaining in the City court Thi, , girl is now being held as a materia. 3 witness for the cases which will come v before the next term of the Superior court but may be arraigned in thF
 City court on a technical charge.