New Britain herald., 1924-09-30
WITNESS ASSESSED
 S5 FOR CONTEMPT
Failed to Appear in Court, Wife
 "HurrieS Up' Judge

! Peter Granda of f3 Grove stree was the star witness for the state il the case against John Gryzenia O 6l Grove street, charged with tn, theft of d pigeon, but when thi | morning s session of police court wa adjourned, the witness found himsel
 taking the rubber off his bankrolI tt
 pay a penalty Of $5 and costs i'm
 posed by Judge Benjamin W. Alini
 for contempt of court, while Gryze'
 mia had been discharged,
 Granla and his wife were sub
 poenacd Sunday night to appear ir
 court yesterday morning by. Motor cycle Policeman William r. Hayes 1 but neither appeared and they were 1 arrested yesterday afternoon on ca 1 phases to assure their appearance ithis morninf. Policeman Hayes took
 them into custody and he told the l court that Grauda was at work ant iwhen asked why he failed to appear i in court, he asked the policeman who was going to give him his days l pay if he went to court.
 The proceedings were rather slow
 from tho viewpoint of Mrs. Granda and she attempted to put little pep | into them hy intorrupting Judge AL ling while he wus questioning her husband Gs 10 the reason for hi. failure to apncar yesterday. She ex- pressed a desire for the court tC hurry up" as she had a/sick baby at home and could not Say in court all day, After making the inter- ruptIon the expression on Judge AL jlng's face convinced the woman that her remarks were far from de- sirablo and she spoke only when spoken to after that
 Gryzenia was charged with the theft of a pigeon from Edward Kel- Ter of 1t2 LaSalle street on the night of September 70. The pigeon wos found in the possession of Granda who told the police it was given him by Gryzenia. Gryzcnia testified that he had purchased the pigeon from a man named Stanley.
 Track TrespassCrs Warned
 Everybody goes down the tracks there, so l go down." and I've been going down the tracks there for -sev- eral years and nobody ever said anything to me about it." were the iWariable pleas of 13 men arraign- ed before Judge Alling on charges of trespassing on the. property of the New York, New Haven &; Hartford railroad They were arrested yes terday noon on the tracks between Park and Writing streets.
 After warning the men abort the practice of using the railroad for short cut on their way to and from work, reminding them of the fatal accident near the High street cross ing a week ago, Judge Alling sus pended judgment in all the cases. He read the statute covering such trespassing and which provides for maximum penalty of $50 and 80 days in jail.
 The arrests of the mon were made by the railroad police, headed by Capt. Ralph H. kinslcy of Water bury, and F, Howard Smith. who has charge of policing the local railroad property.
 The following is a list of those who appeared in court on the tres pass charge;
 Tony Walintonis of 237 Whiting street, Walter Butenis of 237 Whit ing street, c, DcLuca of 329 Park street. Mike Carenzo Of 34 Walnut street, John Valentine of 30l Stanley street Michael O'Hare of 632 East Main street, Joseph Rratton of 19 Kelsey street, Henry Slapski of 4O3 Stanley street. Vito Colandcr Of Der lln, Tony Kolowski of Hartford. and John Runsick of 11O Gold street.