New Britain herald., 1923-04-12
CONNORS FINED S2OO
 FOR SELLING HOOCH
No Food in His Restaurant, Pc.
 liCemen Tell Judge

restaurant at i4 Myrtle street, was fined s200 and costs and given 20 day jail sentence by Judge George w. Klett in police court this morning on charge of violating the liquor law. Tho jail sentence was suspended and bonds in the case of an appeal were fixed at $500.
 connors, who was represented by Attorney r. r. NTcDonough, was ar- rested on April 5 following raid on his place of business. conducted by Policeman John C. Stadler and Will liam Strolls. Officer Stadler testified in court that there was no food in the restaurant at the time the raid was made. water could not be drawn from 1 tho faucet. there were no matches in the place with which to light the gas stove and the door in the partition in the roar of the store was blocked.
 Officer Strolls stated that by look ing through window in the partition | he saw Connors throw something into sink. Liquor was taken from the trap of the sink and was analysed by | Milton Davenport, chemist. Mir. Day. export testified that the liquor in the bottles given him was 1858 percent in volume and 1.26 percent in weight Attorney McDonough said that the sink trap business is getting pretty far fetched.
 Pipe Line" to Next Store Adolph Pockidwiski of 16 Orange street entered plea of guilty to q charge of violating the liquor law and was fined s150 and costs by Judge Klett. A store conducted by the ac- cused was raided yesterday afternoon by Sergeant Michael Flynn, Patrol man Anton Milewski and Policeman Thomas Lee.
 Sergeant Flynn testified that when the raid was made the officers found q mysterious pipe leading into the next store. The pipe ended in 8 tank concealed in a ceiling and liquor was being drawn from this tank. The ac- cused told Judge Klett that he would get out of the business.
 RibicOff Case Continued
 The case of Samuel Ribicoff. ar- rested yesterday by Policeman Thom- as Feeney for violating Section AZ of the motor vehicle law by not having the weight and capacity marked on the side of his truck, was continued until tomorrow morning so that the accused might have two witnesses in court
 Ribicoff was in court yesterday morning on the same charge but was discharged upon payment of costs. Shortly after o'clock he was again orr |, ;t,y testified that he drove his car to two painters yesterday morning in an ef- fort to have the weight and capacity marked on his car.
 When judge 1<lett asked him if he knew it was against the law to oper- ate commercial truck without tho weight marked on the side of the car and that he shouldn't drive it until | this has been done, the accused said, | T can't carry the car on my shoulder to take it to paint shop"
 Morris Steinberg, arrested for vio- iating Section 42 of the motor vehicle law was discharged upon payment of costs. The case of Henry Rosenholtz, arrested on the same charge, was continued until tomorrow morning in order to grant him time to bring his father into court with him. Young Rosenholtz is IS years old.
 Tries To Drown in Tub
 William Borkowski. who was ar- rested on April on a breach of the peace and drunkenness charge, was given 20 day jail sentence which was suspended under the condition that he report to Probation Officer F. c. Connolly each week until June 30th. The probation officer was or dered to draw his pay each week.
 Mrs. Borkowski testified in, court today that her husband came home drunk last Saturday night, called her vile names. made her daughter fill the bath tub with water and then tried to drown himself by sticking his head in the tub. ..
 The charge against Stanley Gron- oski of Newington was dismissed by Judge klett. Gronoski was arrested afternoon by Officer Feeney for operating motor vehicle without a license and for having improper brakes on his machine.