The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-13
MACKENZIE
 INTERCEDES
 FOR MILkMAN
(Speciad to The Times. ]

k0peCt1n CO The I1r1e9.)
 Reddisy, Aug. 12.-Earry Macken-
 zie of Bethel. superintendent of the
 Capitol at Hartford and recently ap-
 pointed Prohibition Enforcemen- a success as wtelder of influence To his counsels was attributed the
 action of Governor Lake in recasttng
 the Putnam Park Commission in a
 manner which dropped from 1t D. s.
 Sanford. the chairman and senior
 member as to length of service, al
 seemed favorabiy disposed towards
 Mr. Sanford whoss retention was strongly urged upon him by this
 towns two representatives in the Dairy and Food Commission of the State has stayed the prosecution of George P. Williams. q dairy, farmer | The charge against Williams was | the maintenance, in and about his COW stables. of unsanitary conditions tending to make unwholesome the milk produced there. In 1919 two prosecutions were brought against him, both alleging milk adulteration bsth bS tdn the Hs srs ,s0
 missed because of defects in the wording Of tho complaint and the second because the State failed to prove that the suspected milk had been delivered by him for public con- sumption.
 On July .ss MT. Warner. represent ing the Commissioners office at Hartford, and MT. Blanchard, an in spector for this district. waited upon D. s. Sanford in his capacity as grand juror and formally lodged a complaint against Williams They said they were not preiudiced against him be- cause of the former prosecutiore and had no desire to be oppressive or un- designed to safeguard the purity of | the public milk supply, but that VII l Hams by continued disregard of clean ing up orders had placed himself in an attitude of defiance and that his conduct could no longer be tolerated As MT. Sanford was about to leave town for an absence of several days he said he must defer action on inc complaint until his return.
 He returned on Wednesday of last week and the developments in the case which quickly followed were cer- tainly surprising. The same day Will Hams called him on the phone and said that he (Williams) was in receipt Of letter from the Dairy Commis- sioner snI @ @annoupeing that proceedings Sanford he read extracts from the let ter. These excerpts were to the eff feet that inasmuch as Messrs. Warner (the commissioner), that a reinspec- { tion by them of the Williams prem ises showed that the corrective enin changes they previously ordered were I
 
 sion for going on with the prosecu- tion. Further inquiries by MT. San ford elicited from Williams the infor- nation that the favorable turn in his affairs had been brought about through the friendly intervention of ] Mr. Mackenzie whose good offices he went to Hartford to invoke. He fur ther said that Comptroller Bissen aid ed in the interceSsion doings
 This was all very we'll on the face of it and the matter had been placed by the grand juror in the category of things done and dismissed when in the evening, there came a telephone he were home and ready to go ahead with the Williams case. MT. San ford's reply disclosing the situation ( as it had been disclosed by MT. Will ( Iams quite f1abbergasted the inspec- t tor. He said there had been no re- | inspection and no report as alleged. T As far he was concerned the case t when he and MT. Warner preferred r their original complaint. This de- i elaration MT. Warner afterwards con- I frmed, who said he could not ac- count for the turn affairs had taken e but would inquire into it. There the T matter so far rests. q
 The renovation orders which the i 1cally directed that the interior of the f stables be cleaned up and white s washed, that they no longer be used ls quarters for a pair of horses and 6 hat large pile of manure alongside | ,ne side of the building be removed f nave been carried out MT. Sanford . 'ays he does not know, but is in 2 ormed that nothing has been done beyond the removal of the horses