New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-08-13
COUPLE FINED s225
/ FOR selling HOOCH
Policeman Calls Schmidt Home
City'S Worst Liquor Dive

Carl Schmidt of 32s Park stree
was fined $3.50 and costs and given {
80 day suspended Jail sentence ant
his wife was fined SIS and costs wher
the two were arraigned before Deput,
Judge W. c. Hungerford in police
| court this morning on charges OF VIC
!ating the liquor law. Mr.. and Mrs
Schmidt were arrested Saturday night
by Sergeants William P. McCue. Mich
ael Flynn, Policemen John c. Stadlei
and Patrick O'Mara after the officers
had secured two quarts Of liquor
about so gallons of mash and a still
following a raid upon the home. Pros
eoutor Joseph G. Woods presented the
states case.
Customer Furnishes Tip"
In court this morning, Sergeant Nc
Cue testified that Joseph Roushka
came to police headquarters late
Saturday afternoon and had with him
two bottles of alleged whiskey for
which, he told the officers, he paid
Mrs Schmidt So. The policemen then
raided the house, Sergeant McCue
said, and found another bottle of
whiskey behind a wainscoating. The
still and the mash was also found at
this time.
Policeman Stadler described the
house as the most notorious liquor
dive in New Britain" He said that
the police have received several com
plants about the place of late and it
has been under observation for sew
eral months.
Mrs. Schmidt denied that she sold
the liquor, but said that Roushka left
the money there because he did not
want to take the whiskey for nothing.
She said that it was home made as
her husband needed liquor to drink
and another woman therefore taught
her how to make it.
When Schmidt was called to the
stand, he testified that he knew moth
ing about the liquor being made or
sold at the house. The fines were
then imposed by Judge Hungerford,
who issued a warning that more Sc
we're penalty would be meted out to
the couple should they again be
brought in on a similar charge.
Stabbed Boy With File.
Alex Kaminski was fined s25 and
costs for assaulting Michael Hornbak
On Saturday afternoon by stabbirg
aim in the back with nail file. Horn
oak testified that he saw Kaminiski
down Franklin street satur-
lay and he approached him, put his
lrms around him and said Hello.
Alice" AS he did this, he said Ka-
niniski grabbed him and struck him
IN the back. 1t was not until he felt
! sharp pain that he knew he had
,een stabbed, he said. {
DR.. F. J. Mann testified that he at
ended the wounded boy. The wound, {
which was under the left shoulder I
blade, was about one and one-half {
inches long and half an inch deep, {
Ind must have been inflicted with
orce as the instrument cut through
ONE clothing before penetrating the g
kin, the doctor said. Two small boys. !
rho witnessed the affair, corroborat- :
d the statements made by Hornbak. !,
Kaminsk said that he struck the .
oy in self defense as they were tor :
renting him. He said that he was !.
-alking the street cleaning his nails
nd because he had the file in his :
and he used it. !
Wife Chaser Fined. +.
Peter Novak was arrested at his !,
ONE on Myrtle street yesterday by ;,
upernumerary Policeman O'Keefe on ;,
charge Of drunkenness and disturb =
lg the breach of peace. He was =,
ned s25 and costs u
Policeman OKeefe testified that
ovak was drunk and a large crowd :, =
ad gathered in and outside the house ,
here he was causing a disturbance. '
onstanti Devosini, who lives near the
,cused man. testified that Novak was 3
1asing his wife around the house and q
ad started a fight. 3
Mrs. Novak said that her husband y
ad chased her out Of the house on q
night at II o'clock and was u
gain chasing her on Sunday She Il