New Britain herald., 1924-09-18
TELLS OF PROMISE ID PROTECT HIM
Nsxinston Offender Says Con- stable Assured Him Of Immunity

Alex Grabowski of Newington, proprietor of the o. l. c. garage in that town. caused a sensation in su- perior court before Judge Booth. .yes- terday when he said that he had been assured of protection against arrest by a Newington constable. The con- stables name was not mentioned, but Assistant States Attorney Gideon told the court that the matter was being investigated to learn he facts.
 Grabowski made the statement to the court in an effort to establish ex- tenuating circumstances in the case, charging him with being a second offender of the liquor laws. He pleaded guilty to the charge Tues day afternoon and was sentenced to jailI for 60 days, yesterday.
 Prison Guard Jailed
 Samuel J. Ritchie' of Waterbury, the guard at the Wethersfield state prison who was arrested for violat- ing the prison code by transporting a letter from a prisoner to point outside. was sentenced to serve four months in jail on his plea of guilty.
 Ritchie was charged with carrying a letter from Luman c. Beckett, To- cal man, serving life sentence at the prison for the murder of taxi driver, to his aunt in this city. The letter was part of a plan that Back cit had formed to effect his relsase, but when his aunt failed to warm up to the proposition as presented by tn eprisoner, Beckett became alarm the prisoner confessed his act to the warden involving Ritchie.
 Public Defender John L. Forward represented Rtichie, and pleaded to the court for leniency as the former prison guard has wife and four children dependant on him for SUD- Gionfriddo Goes to Jail.
 N Joseph Gionfriddo was sentenced to 60 days in jail on a charge of assauiting- John Fox of Washing ton place on Washington street, August 4, in superior court yester- day afternoon. Gionfriddo was orig inally arrested on a charge of . as- saulting Fox, but when the victim died at the New Britain General hospital from hypostatif pneumonia that developed as a result of a broken hip he received when Gion- friddo pushed him to the sidewalk, a charge Of manslaughter was placed against the defendant and he, was bound over to ,the superior court. He was sentenced on the assault charge whep the case was called before Judge Booth. Attor- ney Morris D. Sake appeared for Gionfriddo and made a plea for leniency. .
 Probation for BOsco.
 Lucian .Bosko, IT, charged with the theft of a gold watch, chain, and fountain pen on Broad street, was treated leniently because of his youth, and was placed on probation, with a sentence to the reformatory to go into effect if he does, not ob- serve the terms of the probation. Bosko was arrested with John Wal lagura and both were sentenced to the reformatory in the local police court, but Bosko took an appeal. ,
 Sapko Goes to Jail.
 Charles Sapko, who entered a plea of guilty to a charge of las civious carriage, was sentenced to 30 days in jail.- He was arrested by the local police, on charge of in- decent assault after an investigation was made into an occurrence in a Broad street store in which the girl was employed. Sapko was alleged to have induced her to go into a rear room of the store with him and then made an attempt to as- sault her A customer entering the store heard the girls cries and in- vestigating. he put Sapko out of the store.