New Britain herald., 1924-03-29
ALCOHOL AND GAS
 CARE STILL ENEMIES
Three Held for Driving Under X. Influence Of Liquor


 Driving under the influence O liquor isgetting quite popular in New Britain according to this morning! session of police court, when three men were arraigncd on this charge.
 Lester Morecroft Of 203S Stanley street, whose case was continued from yesterday morning. had his case fur ther continued until next Saturday al the request of Assistant Prosecuting Attorney William A. Grcenstein. Tn. prosecutor told the court that A. G. Scotton of Hartford. whose machine colldcd with Morccroft's on Stanley street Thursday night has been called to the hospital because of a serious development in his wife's con1ition. Mrs. Scotton was riding with her hus- when the accident occurred and suf- fered a broken leg and other injuries.
 Judge William F. Mangan appeared for Morecroft.
 Piainvillc Man in Tolls
 Thornton M. Yeoman, who gave his address to the police at l7 Church street, Plainyille. charged with the same offense, had has case continued until Wednesday 10 enable him to employ counsel.
 Yeoman was arrested last night by patrolmen William Doherty and Will liam Mccarthy when he drove out Of Church street and turned into Main in such manner as to indicate that he did not have proper control of his machine. He was ordered to stop by the police and when he drew up in front of the city hall he was found to be under the influence of liquor.
 stalled in Car Tracks
 Frank c. Hayes of 21 Silver street, Neriden, was the other man to be ar raigned charged within driving while under the influence of liquor. His ease was also continued until Wednesday on request of Attorney Patrick F. McDonough.
 Hayes was arrested early this morn ing by Patrolman Doherty and Me- Csrthy on Main street after his ma chine became stalled in the center of the car tracks on Main street after he had turned in from West Main street. He was unable to start up the machine again, causing the police to investi- gate. Hayes is alleged to have been very drunk when placed under ar rest,
 Objects 10 Probation
 Peter Baran of John street did not take very kindly to the decision Of Judge Alling to place him on proba- ton, saying: "um, probation for noth- ing, that's pretty good.' The judge asked him if he would prefer to go to jail, as he could send him there Just ss easy as putting him on probation. Baran had nothing more to say,
 Baran was arrested last night at his. home by patrolman Joseph Moore after his wife complained to the po- lice that her husband was drunk. and had beaten her. The wife testified in court this morning that Baran had taken her by the throat and tried 10 choke her. She said that he casnc home from work last night and started to drink some liquor that he had in the house.
 When charged with drunkenness and breach of the peace, he pleaded not guilty 10 both, saying that he did not have time to get drunk. The case was continued until April 26 and Baran was put on probation.
 Forgot to Get License
 George Paddock Of 252 Pennington avenue was driving a machine on Main street last night, and had stopped 10 talk to policeman, whom a motor cycle crashed into his rear. He was unable to produce an operators license and was placed under arrest by Patroiman Joseph Hayes. lle told the court thai he did not have his license renewed this year because it had slipped his mind. He was fined siO and costs.
 S25 Tine for Reckless Driver
 Boleslaw Fedorczyk Of s3 Gold street was found guilty Of reckless driving and fined s2j. His case had been continued for fentcDce until to- day to enable Judge filling to look over the scene of the accident on North Burritt street in which Tedor- ezyk was involved with a city truck.
 The court said that after an invcsti- sation he was satisfied that if fcdor- czyk was exercising due care and turn- ed into North Burritt street from Broad at reasonable speed, there