New Britain herald., 1922-10-28
LOCAL MAN NAMED IN SHOOTING CASE Louis Mennone Taken to West
 Haven by Police
 PROTESTS HIS INNOCENCE

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 Louis Mennone of Whiting street was taken to. West Haven today bv I the police of that place following a shooting af1ray there in which his 6- ancee rather was the victim Men none, who is well known locally. Is employed al the Hills Manufacturing company plant. The Planville man has protested innocence and hopes to prove an alibi that he was in p,ain- Vile at the time of the shooting.
 Mennone claims that he was in the office of the town clerk here at 7.2o o'clock last night, at which time the shooting Is said to have taken place. He also says that at S:3o o'clock he was in the grocery store of James Minello on Whiting street. So far he mas proved these statements 10 be true as the West Haven police called at the home of Miss May Morgan of Park street. the town clerk, at daybreak this morning, to check up on Men onne's statements. Miss Morgan said that he had been in her office last night at that time looking up some land records.
 James Minello was also visited by the police and he backed the story of Mennone that he was in his store at S:3o o'clock and purchased a sack of flour.
 Patrolman E. w. Furrey was noti fled by the West Haven police of the shooting in that place and that the To- cal man was said to be implicated Mennone has a sweetheart in West Haven and it is her father who was shot. It is alleged that Mennone and his girls father did not agree very well and that recent arguments may have caused the shooting.
 Mennone is in West Haven today l being held by the police pending fur ther investigation in the matter. It ! is the belief of friends of Mennone here that the man is innocent.
 Going To Game.
 Plainville will be well represented at the YaleArmy game at New Ha- ven today as a good crowd will at- tend. Those who will attend the game from this town are:
 Postmaster James E. Usher, Mir. and Mrs. Walter Lathrope, Miss Julia ! Graham. Francis Sullivan, Peter Dan iels, Herbert Ewald. Meyer Sneide- man, Harold Birnbaum. Roger Free man, Miss Mabel Elliott Miss Mary | Fitzgerald, Louis Brastow, Edward Brastow, Raymond Neff, Miss Ruth Ryder, A. A. Mcleod A. Johnson, Thomas Prior, Carl Aynett, Anna Murphy, Addie Ryder. Ettie Ryder l.eona Callen, Marie Callen, Merritt O. Ryder. William 1. Wiber, Mir. and Mrs. w. B. Wilber and their guest Miss Henrietta Reganthal.
 Many Hear Speakers.
 There was good attendance at the Grange Hall last night when Mrs Hiram P. Maxim and Mrs. Lestina Griswold Wightman of Hartford. gave addresses on the political situations in this community and surl ounding cities and towns.
 The speakers were brought here in an effort to bring out all the women voters in PlainviIle to the state cleo ton.
 Cahi!l Report Accepted.
 Daniel J. Donovan of Meriden, re- ceiver for the w. J. Cahill company, wholesale grocers of Meriden and t,,&r ,ln,S,,t J Isaac Wolfe in the superior court yes terday, which is unique. in that it cam ein for favorable comment.
 Judge Wolfe accepted the receivers first semi-annual report and passed an order that Mir. Donovan continue the business for four months from November 1.
 In his report Receiver Donovan set forth that he scored profit all along the line since taking charge of the big business. that he paid for new goods as he went along, and in addition stocked up for the fall trade with paid for goods The accounts receiN- able are in excellent condition. there is money in the banks, trucks have been paid for in full and the note HOIutTS were paul " pCl 1Siil. oll al- count.
 The most noteworthy achievement, however. was in the collection of old and bad accounts. Mir. Donovan said that on the old Meriden accounts he collected S3,S6O more than the ap- praisal, and hopes to collect still more. On the Plainville accounts the receiver collected slS,44S.69 out of total of s25,745.5a, and expects to col lect the balance in the near future. Previously the court had passed an order to discontinue the PlainNllle branch. but the receiver advises against taking that step now as II would mean loss.
 The accounting submitted by the receiver shows that the company has