The Connecticut labor news., 1922-08-04
MERIDEN COURT SEES QUESTION IN
 AUTO FATALITY
Danaher Brings Out Doubt as to Party Being Intoxi-
 cated

Meriden, Aug. 4,-On close ques- tioning by Attorney C. J. Danaher much doubt has been aroused as to whether George H. Tryon of South Grove street, Police Sergeant John J. Custy and others were intoxicated as charged when the car Tryon was driving went over an embankment and resulted in Custy's death. Tryon is held criminally responsible for the accident b ythe coroner but at the conclusion of the trial in the police court this week, Judge Dunne, even though binding over Tryon to the Superior court, stated that from the evidence produced there seemed to be grave question as to whether the par ty was intoxicated or not, but be- cause of the nature of the charge 1t was a matter for jury to decide and he therefore bound Tryon over. Six teen witnesses were examined and all those who saw Tryon or Thomas E. Conheady of Wallingford, who was also in the car, after the accident, declared they were not drunk as had been testified before the coroner The party had been on a ride to Walling ford and on returning to Meriden the accident happened on the South Mer- iden road.
 Much mystery surrounds the death occurring last Tuesday in which Mrs. Katie Zell of 262 So. Colony street. Michael Salamandra, a merchant of Paddock avenue, was arrested after the evidence, Coroner Mix discharged Salamanda from responsibility, prin- cipally on facts in an ante-mortem statement by Mrs. Zell. Some pills Salamanda is alleged to have sold the woman figuring in the case. The coroner, however,, found nothing to hold the man on.
 John Martin Affe1dt, whose body was found lying in pool of blood at Franklin and Greene streets, New Haven, is a former Meriden resident. He left this city about a year ago when he removed to New Haven. He visited his parents here a week ago and they say that at that time he ap- peared we'll Besides his parents, he leaves two sisters and a brother.
 \The 53rd shooting tournament of theM Southern New England Rife Association will be held in this city on SeItember 2-3-4, under the aus D1CeS of Stne MeIluen MIC CluD olH- CT clubs Evho will compete will be the Hartford Scheutzen Verein, the Springfield Scheutzen Verein. The entries, howeve>r, are not confined solely to membeKs ot the club.
 Robert L. Morris, A28 years old, son of Mrs. Rose MorrisS>A ot A south Second street, died this week at the IT Tx vate in the 10th Balloon Company overseas. He leaves his wife, form erly Miss Ruth soper of this S~ity; his mother, three sisters and thEee brothers. X
 The First National Bank has an- nounced that Raymond E. King has been advanced from teller to assist ant cashier, and that Raymond D. Hess has been appointed to the of flee of teller Both young men have been connected with the bank for several years.
 A suit for balance of $2o6o5, al legged to be due on commission for sale of cars, was brought this week by Howard R. Curtis of this city against the J. J. Iavarty Co. ot New Haven, which has a branch office here. The action is returnable to the city court September I2.
 An encounter in which four colored men figured this week on the Bow cry" and during which knives were flashed, brought the quartet before the police court when fines of SIo and costs were levied on three of them and $25 and costs on the fourth.