The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-10-24
GAIN DISMISSED
BY MAYOR TODAY
Evidence Shows Driver
Was Not at Fault in
Auto Accident

proper precautions should be
taken against injury from auto
mobiles following near crossings"
said Mayor Conaway this morning
in police court as he dismissed
Ernest Cain, who had been cited
by PatroIman Digman to appear
for running into the rear end OF
an automobile that had been flag
Iged ut the corner OF Jefferson and
Main streets Saturday afternoon.
Gains automobile was damaged
considerably, a smashed headlight
end q punctured radiator being
the chief items Of expense, whtle
the other car had the tire rack
smashed.
The trouble occurred at about
1890 in tho afternoon. Tho evil
denco showed that there was u
truck standing in front of the
Mountain City drug store, when
Officer Digman stopped an auto
mobile driven by a woman. Cain
was coming back OF the woman at
a slow rase of speed and being
unable to see the officer, and the
woman failing to hold out her
hand as a signal that she was go:
ing to stop, crashed into the rear
end Of her car.
The woman was in court and
admitted that she had given no
such signal and Cain was dis,
charged.
The law on which Mayor Coma.
way based his decision reads as
follows: IAN operator intending to
stop his vehicle, shall extend his
arm and move it up and down In
q vertical direction. An operator
intending to turn to the left, shall
extend his arm in a horizontal po'
sition and slow. down. An operator
intending to turn his vehicle to
tho right, shall extend fhis arm
with the forearm raised at right
angles, and slo5Y- q oWn. a-.-.a '.%---s Z; ::
Pete Donphue was fined IS and
costs for being drunk: French
Hood, Jake Walker and Howard
Linn each forfeited SIS for failing
to appear. Bob Murphy forfeited
$40 for failing to, appear to explain
q, little joke he played on an en-
pioye Of garage. Bob went to
the garage to have some work
done, picked up a S5 pair Of gloves
belonging to one OF the employees
and gave them to a bystander as
he left the place. The owner OF
the gloves could not see the fine
point of the joke, il there was ans
and had Bob arrested. Bob put up
a deposit of $40 five Of which went
to the city and five to pay for the
replaced gloves.
Joe McGiboney negro. who
wa sarTested Saturday charged
with robbing an unknown foreig'
ner, was turned over to the county
officers this morning for q hear
ing.
The negro is said to have been
with two foreigners in soft drink
place on Washington st. One Of
the men placed roll of bills
amounting to $210 In his cap FOL
safe keeping. McGiboney and an
other negro afterwnrd met him on
Cleveland avenue and started
scuffle, during which the foreign
er's cap was knocked off. Mo
Giboney is charged with having
seized the cap and the money and
making his getaway. He was af.
terward picked up by the police
but denied having taken the mon.
ey.
the East Side, was also turned
over TO the county on aleharge pf
shooting at James Laura at his
hotel on Water street.
According to the story told to
the police who arrested Marcuti,
the latter owed Laurn a board biD
and had left the hotel. Afterward
Laura met him and demanded pay.
ment. The two men wont to the
hotel where an argument regard.
ing the, amount Of the debt ersued.
Marcuti became enraged and tried
to draw a gun. Laura grappled
with him when he broke away,
ran down the stairs, drew a revolt
yer and fired one shot. Just then
Patrolman DeBerry hove In sight
and prevented a tragedy by taking
Marcuti into custody. The weapon
used was a 25, caabre automatic.
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