Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-30
NORWICH BULLETIN
WILLiMANTIc OFFICE Telephone 1o5 23 Church St

Booze runners who endeavored to run the gauntlet of the local police depart ment late Friday night are included in the 9yer-increasing list of law violators in this respect who have become entangled in the clutches of the Willimantic authorities since this profitable but hazardous pas time came into vogue The owner and driver of the machine got away but his Packard twin-six touring car, partially wrecked. is stored in a local garage and his load of gin in sealed bottles has for the most parS seeped into the ground, this side of Paper Mill bridge at South Chap nn. That the driver of the car and his companion were not instantly killed when their powerful car. travelling at top speed. overturned at the deadly curve approaching the bridge, is considered mi raculous.
 The car bore Connecticut license plates No. 29,459 and in the machine were found public service plates No. 1e3s. Both of these are listed opposite the name of Christian Braun of No. 34 South View street. Waterbury. That Braun was the driver of the car who made his getaway into the woods after the crash was admitted by his companion, Samuel Levy Of Worcester, Mass, who was EOund by the officers, lying beSide the road in a dazed condition. but otherwise
 
 limantic police station and locked up and was given a hearing in police court with intent to sell without a license. He pleaded not guilty. saying he was only a passenger in the machine and had nothing to do with the booZe-running trznsaction. His case was continued un- til Monday morning June bonds being fixed at $500 In the meantime, with the aid of the Waterbury police an effort will be made to locate Braun.
 Friday nights chase, was in many re- soects one of the most spectacular In the history of the department It began at the west end of the city where Braun failed to heed the command of the offic- CTS stationed there to halt, and instead stepped on his gas. He came through the main streets of the city at breakneck speed with the officers following and barely -aA~sed a collision with freight train at the Main street crossing. Levy afterwards admitted to the authorities that they came through the city about hfty miles an hour and at times were hitting eighty" Braun, intending tC go to Putnam missed his road and yot on the highway leading to Windhan Center The officers in the pursuing ma. chine. Patrolman John Killourey and Frank Mclean, surmised that the inten ton Of the runners was to go by way oi Putnam and proceeded to North Wind ham where they lay in wait. Their con lecture proved correct and the booze runner turned off this side of Windhan Center and drove to North Windham b, way of a back road. Here they wer' halted once more by the officers, one c the latter getting out of the machine t' step on the running board of the ca when Braun once more gave her th' gas" and shot around a curve onto th main highway on two wheels Severa shots were fred at the fleeing car bu only served to make the driver speed U, more- The officers once more gave chas and al South Chaplin came upon th wrecked car. which had tried to make
 hziroin curve at high speed. crashe through a fence an doverturned. A fe' feet further and the machine would hay either crashed headon into an iron pie of the bridge or tunlbled to the rock below. Practically all of the gin whic was in loose bottles was destroyed, onl a few bottles remaining unbroken. Tn bottles of the size known as 'fifths' wer labeled 'I:l Bart Dry Gin" battled at tn Camberwell distilery by Sceats and Will of Baltimore. Md.
 The machine was lighted and haule to a local garage. The windshield wa smashed and the body of the car and to badly sprung and broken in places.
 Miss May F. Higgins at the hime of Mi; Myra F. Mathews of No. 31 1-2 Bellevu street last week in anticipation of hS