New Britain herald., 1924-04-14
NQNAN'S AGE AGAIN
 CAUSE OF COMBAT
Bat Judge lS Unable to Learn
 Who Started IL All

A torn dress. d larga bah of her
 hair. q black eye and bruise marks on her arms were cAhibitcd in police court this morning by Mrs Cecilia Kramer as evidence that she had been assaulted. but after listening to the maze of contradictory testimony given by the woman and the three defendants, Judge Benjamin W. Al ling WIS unable to solve the riddle and suspended judgment. Frank and Joe Ncbaurr of BIO Elm street and Michael Miller of 3l2 Elm street were the defendants.
 Thr police received q complaint that there was Il woman screaming in the house al BIO Elm street last night shortly after 10 o'clock and Policeman Patrick OMura was sent 10 the house 10 investigate. He found Mrs. Kramer badly beaten up with her dress torn and weeping. The three men were found in the Nchaucr house al BIO Elm street and all were drunk, it is said. Mrs. Kramer said that they had assaulted her when she tried to leave the house,
 Mrs. Kramer testified that she had entered the Ncbauer house at the in- Vitation of Frank, who insisted that she call on them. She sat in the house talking 10 the three mon when one of them asked her how old she was. She told them she was 5S years old and they said that they didn't believe her, so she wont into her house at 3t2 and brought book in which her age was recorded over to prove to the men that she was 3s years old. This started an argument as to it's authenticity and when she got up to go home, the three men grabbed her, tore her dress pulled out several handfus of her hair and blackencd her eye. Asked who had hit her in the eye. she said the three of them had hit her there.
 The defendants claimed that they had only put Mrs. Kramer out of the house because she came in about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and started 10 call q Mrs. Vail who was visiting in the Ncbauer home, names ana thon pitched into n battle with her. They said that Mrs. Kramer pushed Mrs. Vail onto a stove. and that she was very drunk,
 Tho testimony in tho case seemed 10 indicate that there was a continn- ous fight on between Mrs. Kramer and some opponent from 3 o'clock in the afternoon, until 10 o'clock at night, but it was impossible to tell who caused the fights, or who par tieipatcd in them. First it was one and thcn it was another, depending upon who was tcstifying. Each one to absolve themselves from all connection with the various bat ties and to involve the others.
 Judge filling made an unsuccessful 1 attempt 10 straighten out tho stories | by calling Mrs Kramer back on the 1 stand in an effort to find out just the | time and by whom she was beaten, but she started in and told a story that was entirely different from her first one.
 The court then asked Prosecutor l Joseph c. Woods what the state | wanted to claim as result Of the | evidence presented, but tho prosecu- ] tor did not show any desire to at- cmpt straightcning out the evidence, D judgment was s"-aandcd.
 Raid on Elm Street House.
 Mrs. Sarah Slcath was sentenced .o jail for 60 days when she was ar- raigned on charges of violating the moral code and keeping a disordcrls house. Harry Trudeau was fined sit ,n a charge Of misconduct and Joe ieph Schultz. Bert Rawlings and Ed- ward Helm were fined s5 on charges ,f frequcntinG.
 The defendants were arrested carly |