New Britain herald., 1924-01-15
PainuiM NelDs
SAVES MAN FROM TERM IN JAIL
John Yitie of Mountain View Tried in Wife Beating Charge
MISTAKES R. R. FOR STREET

Injured In Local Plant - Plainyille
 Divorce Cases to be Tried--Knashoo
 Funeral Tomorrow--Firemen Get
 ting Radio-Briefs.
 John vitie, arrested and tried last evening in the local police court on the charge of beating his wife, was saved from a jail sentence on account of his large family. He was given a suspended jail sentence of 60 days and was placed on probation for one year by Justice Edward P. Prior. Vitie was arrested last evening about o'clock by Policeman Thomas Royce who acted on complaint of neighbors that row was in progress in the Vitie home. The policeman found Mrs. Vitie in the house suffer- ing from what appeared to be the ef- l fleets of severe drubbing. She ex- hibited black and blue marks in the court room last evening and claimed that they were inflicted by her hus- band. Grand Juror William Foran, who prosecuted the case. recommend ed that mercy be shown the man be- cause of the fact that he has large family of small children and should the man be incarcerated in jail, it would leave the family without sup port. Justice Prior stated that he was sorry that the family was in such a predicament and upon putting Vitie on probation, told him that recur- renee would mean additional days in Jail besides the suspended sentence now hanging over his head.
 Drove Along Tracks.
 John Kiwiak of Meriden was arrest cd last night by Deputy Sheriff E. w. Furrey on the charges of reckless driving and driving an automobile while under the influence of intoxi- eating liquor. Kiwiak was coming into Plainyille following 0 visit to friends house in Bristol and upon approaching the West Main street railroad crossing, he passed a Bris- tol trolley car on the left side. Then seeing the lights surrounding the railroad station, he turned his au- tomobile onto the tracks and bumped |
 
 chine would go no farther.
 Fortunately when he sped by the trolley car, no other vehicles were ap- | preaching from the other side of the | tracks or else there would have been a collision. Deputy sheriff Fnrroy, | who was an eye witness to tho affair, | promptly arrested kiwiak and put him in the local lookup over night. There he languished because of the lack of bail and he was scheduled to be tried today before Justice E. F. 1 Prior with Grand Juror William | Foram prosecuting.
 Injured in Factory.
 Stanley Zlmock of 2s2 Myrtle street, New Britain, was taken 10 the New Britain general hospital yesterday fol- lowing an accident in the Plainville Mfg. Co. plant in which the fingers on | his right hand were badly smashed. Amputation of the first and second fingers was found advisable at the New Britain institution. The operation was performed by Dr. Clifton M. Cooley.
 Plain,illc Divorce Gases.
 Two divorce cases of local interest are scheduled to come up in the pres ent term of the superior court. The case of Sophia s. Hemingway against Lewis Hemingway of South Washing ton street is scheduled to be tried to- day. Pierce and Pierce of Bristol will appear for the plaintiff and Judge William J. Malone Of Bristol will ap- pear for the defendant.
 Tho othar aaea fe ,h. 1f,.....a.a ....s. 1 of Mrs. Rose Ney of Plainyille against Peter Ney. Judge Joseph Donovan of Bristol represents the plaintiff and Salvatore D'Esopo Of Hartford will appear for the defendant.
 Edith knashoo Funeral.
 The funeral of Edith Knashoo, I7 years old Armenian refugee, who died after a lingering illness at the New Britain sanitarlum, will be held to- morrow afternoon. Services will be held in the Ersln Mortuary chapel at 2 o'clock and burial will be in Fair view cemetery.
 The plight of this family driven from their homes in Turkey. is a pitt iable one. Reared as the two girls, who lived in Piainvilie. were among a large family numbering 14, most of ! their brothers and sisters were killed { either by the Turks or through star vation. according 10 a story which liitle Rose. the only surviving mcrn- Der, tells now.
 Stricken with grief at the loss of ' her only remaining sister, Rose, who attends the Plainville Grammar a schools. told Of the troubles which her family went through in Turkey while her frame shuddered and was a shaken with sobs.
 She said that they were happy all ogether before the prosecutions start a, her mother. father and sisters md brothers. The family had a small . arm and were happy and content yEth the small plttance which the members eked out through their own manual lsbors. She said then that he Turks began to prosecute tn. .rnenians and like a bolt from the ky, their possessions were talk rom them ana they were ordered to cave the country.
 Driven along the road like cattle, Ter father and brothers feli under hs lash of Turkish horsemen who rove them along Only a few short h months after they left home. her ., ather died and her brothers wei. VI aken away only to die one by one. e hen her sisters began to fall. ana loUly they died. For a whole year D. hey were forced to live on roots and V erbs and even ate the grass m the D, eds to keep the spark of fife ga4 o- She saw horrors unspeakabie com- fitted on the bands of persecuted D,