New Britain herald., 1924-05-01
.l5 DAYS IN JAIL
 FOR OLESCAWTCH
Found Guilty of Driving Auto
 Under Influence of Liquor

H Greenstein and Attorney Patrick II McDonough put on preliminary t II the police court proceedings toda III when they engaged in a wordy battl i that ragged furiously for a fey minutes. The dispute ended almos as abruptly as 1t started when the at torneys found that they had mis
 understood each other.
 Peter Olescavitch was found guilt,
 when arraigned for driving an auto
 mobile under the influence of liquor
 it was the fifth appearance of Olesca.
 witch in court this year, and Judge
 Benjamin W. filling called his atten-
 tion to the fact that liquor has been
 the cause of all his arrests.
 His wife took the witness stand
 and made a plea to the court to be
 lenient with him, saying that all the
 money they had has been spent pay.
 ing fines and court expenses. She
 claimed that every time anything
 happened and her husband was !: around, the police always arrested him. She said that she did not have any money at all, and did not know
 where the money was to come from
 to pay the rent and feed their two
 children.
 Judge filling considered the plea
 of the woman and fined Olescavitch
 $1o0, payment of which was sus-
 pended, and sentenced him to IS days
 in Jail, saying that he hoped that he
 would make up his mind during the 16 days that liquor was the cause of
 all his trouble and leave 1t alone. Olescavitch was arrested early this
 morning on West Main street by Pa- trolman George Collins who held him
 up after he had cut on the left of the traffic post at the corner of Main and West Main streets. The patrol man found that Olescavitch was drunk and unfit to drive . machine, according to his testimony. Ser geant Matthias Rival and Patrolman John Liebler also testified that the defendant was drunk when placed under arrest.
 olescavitch claimed he was not drunk, but that he was very tired as he had not had any sleep for two nights. and was just returning to New Britain after driving from New York when he was arrested. He said he left New Britain Saturday, but when his attention was called to the fact that he was in police court since Saturday, he said that he had made mistake. 1t was Monday night on which he went to New York.
 He was arrested Monday night on . charge of frequenting and appeared in police court on Tuesday.
 Domijan Fined scS
 Victor Domijan of Somerset drive | was fined s25. s1b of which was re- mitted. when srraigned on . charge of reckless driving on West Main | street last Saturday. He pleaded not guilty and told the court that he | did not know how fast he was going. | but thought that he was travelling at | a comfortable speed, and not. en- dangering lives or property.
 Motorcycle Policeman William s. Strolls testified that he had followed Domijan out West Main street and that just before he overlook the de- fendant and placed him under arrest, the speedometer of his motorcycle showed 35 miles an hour. He said that when he placed Domijan under arrest, he was told that he would never have caught him if the mirror o nhis machine had not been broken, thus making it impossible for him to see the motorcycle policeman follow Ing him.
 Wellin Assessed scs
 Eric Wellin of 156 Kensington street. charged with reckless driving on West Main street yesterday morn- Ing was fined s25, SIS or which was He was arrested by strolls, who told the court that Wellin was 1riving along West Main street about s2 miles an hour when arrested. Wellin pleaded guilty.
 kordek Case PostpoBeI
 Charles Kordek of si Lyman street charged with operating an automobile while under the Influence of liquor, had his case continued until Saturday, IS Judge filling decided that he would like to hear testimony of Adam powalzik. Kordek was arrested Monday night by Patrolman William Doherty in the rear of the old Turner hall on Arch street after a { ,hase in which the patrolman fired our shots after Kordek and his who made his escape.
 Kordek claimed that he was not c Irving the machine and that 1t vas c 'eing driven by Powalzik. Attorney T fcDonough. who represented the de- endaDt. called an emp eye of an au. concern on Arch street as ftness and he testified that Kordek Tss not driving the machine, but that 'owalzik was driving. He said that he gasoline had given out when the lachine was at the end of Arch treet and he had gone down and put l gallon so that the machine ould get as far as the gas stand to ut more in. After he put the asoline in the tank. he said that owslzik drove the machine up Arch rect and then. instead sf stopping the gas stand. he swung to the ft and into the alley leading to the .ar of the Turner hall.
 Doherty said that he was standing gar the entrance to the alley and ~rvf fe ---fsL