New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-08-14
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AUTOS FIGURE IN
3-C0RNERED CRASH
Touring Cars Badly Damaged at
Whiting and Broad Streets
EMMA Is SENT TO JAIL

Reunion of Plainyille Graded Schools
Alumni - Plant officials Arrive
From NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Flanders
M-Briefs.
Three automobiles, Paige, Chev-
rolet and Ford, figured in three cor
nered smash at the corner of Broad
and Whiting streets about o'clock
last evening and two of them were
badly damaged. No one was injured
The cars were owned as follows: the
Paige by Albin Schliting of New Brit
ain; the Chevrolet by Raymond
! Thompson of Harris Corners, Plain
vile, and the Ford by Vito Cassilli of
Bristol. They were approaching the
corner from three different directions
The Ford was proceeding on Broad
street when Thompson's car approach
ed from Harris Corners, travelling in
the direction of Plainville center. The
driver of the Ford who was on the
left of the Thompson car, failed to
stop and coming into Whiting street,
made to cross 1t to enter Broad street
| again. Thompson, seeing that crash
was inevitable, turned his car sharply
to the right The Ford driver turned
his car sharply to the left and both
cars grazed each others wheels. The
Chevrolet. however, hit a telegraph
pole and had hardly come to a stop
before the Paige, coming from the OPP
posite direction of Broad street, crash
| ed squarely into it. The Ford suffer
ed only a damaged hub cap. but the
| other two cars were badly damaged.
The police investigated the crash
and reports have it that the drivers
| of the cars said that a woman who
was crossing the street pushing a baby
carriage was directly responsible for
| the crash. Then the cars met
Thompson had either the choice of
| hitting the pole or the baby carriage
| with the child in it. and he choose the
pole and crash with another car.
No arrests were made in the affair as
all drivers concerned were held
| blameless. A further investigation
| will be made of the matter before it is
| dropped.
Emma Sent to Jail
Sylvester Emma of Forestvile ave-
nue. was fined $50 and costs in the
town court yesterday and was SEN
fenced to so days in jail by Justice
Merritt o. Ryder on the charge OF
| selling and reputation of selling in
toxicating liquor, drunkenness. breach
of the peace and resistance. His wife,
Mrs. Emma was also fined $50 and
costs and received suspended SEN
tence of 80 days in jail on the same
counts.
Rudolph Wall and John kaspook,
visitors at the Emma home who help
ed resist the officers and members of
the raiding party which visited the
Emma home, were fined SO and |
costs, SIS on each of two counts |
charging drunkenness and breach of
the peace. Two other men who were |
arrested and charged with breach of
the peace, we're discharged it being
proved that they had not entered into
the scrap.
Mrs. Emma was allowed to remain
at her home instead Of going to jail
because of the fact that she has
number of small children, one of them
being a nursing infant With both the
mother and father gone, the children
would have no one to care for them.
If. however, the woman does not heed
the warning given her by Justice
Ryder, she will be sent to the county
lodging house for the suspended term,
according to Justice Ryder. Grand
Juror William Foran handled the
facts for the state.
Other Cases Tried
Anthony Kasprow of New Britain
was fined $40 and costs by Justice E.
P. Prior in the town court last evening
on the charge of refusing to obey a
traffic officer. He was arrested Sat
urday eevning in the vicinity of Bios
SONS Corners after he had run his
on the soft cement there.
He was warned to go around the edge
of the soft part. but he either became
confused or did not understand the
officer. as he drove right onto the
cement. spelling the road. He was at .
first charged with reckless driving, but
the charge was dropped, because it
was shown that he stopped his car
when he found that he was not on
terra firma.
Vincent Mato of Danbury was fined
So and costs before Justice William
for failing to have his
operators license properly endorsed /,
He was arrested by Officer Andrew
Hogan Saturday night in front of the
Seri block after he had parked his
,ar in front of a fire hydrant He was
warned to stop elsewhere by the Of
icer and he failed to heed the warn
ng. When he had come back to the
,utom obile to move away, the officer
lsked him to show his license and the l
was lacking. Both of
hese cases were prosecuted by Grand .
Juror William Foran. !,
Alumni Reunion
The third annual reunion of the a
pupils and teachers of the Plainville !,
traded schools will be held, rain or !.
hine, at the home of Mrs. Miles NJ. :
,mith at the Shaker Farms, Shaker :.
'tation. Conn, on Saturday. August :,
S, 1928, at IL o'clock standard time. =
Ill who attended the schools of Plain !
lille are invited to attend and to bring
heir families. Each party will bring
heir own lunch. An auto bus will -
meet the train which leaves Hartford :,
t 1909 o'clock standard time and all a
hose who wish to avail themselves of !,
his transportation and all others who !,