New Britain herald., 1925-01-21
UNDER Sl,OOOB BOND FOR MANSLAUGHTER Judge HunseriOrd Boasts Stipek,
 Driver Of Death Auto
 YOUTH IS BOUND OVER
Court Says Defendant Has Not Com. piled With Single Provision Of Motor Vehicle Laws Judgment Suspended on Father.

T fail to find a single provision of the motor vehicle laws with which the defendant in this case has com piled" remarked Judge William c. Hungcrford in police court this morning when he bound Harold Stipek of IF Winthrop street over to the March term of superior court under bonds of $1 ,000 for trial on a charge of manslaughter. Stipek was the driver of the machine which struck and killed eight year old Ed ward sajak on Pond street last Sat- urday night.
 Stipek was also found guilty on three charges of violating the motor vehicle laws. the court imposing a fine of $40 and costs for operating an unregistered automobile, $25 and costs for operating without sig mailing device and $25 and costs for operating without lights.
 The defendant in this case is of the type that should never be al- lowed to operate a motor vehicle" /" the court said, "as he started Vio- lating the laws regarding their use when he committed perjury two years ago to obtain 8 license by swearing that he was 19 years old when he was in reality under IS, and has evidently continued break Ing them since"
 Judgment Suspended On Father Judgment was suspended in the case against Stipeks father, Arthur W. Stipek, who was alleged to have given the son permission to use registration plates from his machine on the stripped down affair the son owned and was driving at the time the Sajak boy was struck. Sergt. Patrick A. McAvay and Policeman Patrick J. O'Mara told the court that the father had admitted to them that he loaned his plates to the son.
 Disposition of the charges against Theodore Vessels of 55 Winthrop street, charged with operating with out a license, registration, lights or signalling device, was continued un- i til Monday. Judge George W. klett who represented the three defend. ants, made a motion that Vessels he Discharged on the grounds that ! Prosecutor Joseph c. Woods had failed 10 produce any evidence out. side of the statements of the &C., cused, which, he contended, was not i sufficient to convict him. Vessels is alleged hy the police to have driv- on the machine in the case from the hospital to the barn on Columbia street where 1t was kept.
 The Sajak boy met his death while he was sliding on Pond street Saturday night shortly before 6 o'clock. He was going down the grade when the machine operated by Stipek, who was accompanied by . Hiding Carlson of jKensington and Vessels, came along headed north west. About 40 feet from the bridge at the foot Of the hill, the accident occurred, the boys head striking the
 front axle of the machine, causing a compound fracture of the skull, according to the testimony of Medl- cal Examiner John J. Purnoy. Carl
 son picked the boy up in his arms and getting onto the machine, start cd for the hospital, but the injured boy died on the was.
 Testimony was offered to show that the automobile was travcling between ID and 12 miles an hour
 just before. the accident and had
 slowed to some extent as it ap.
 preached the spot where the boy was struck,
 1 Clifford Carlson of 1S1 Rhodes
 street, arraigned before the court or a charge of non support on com paint of his wife, Mrs. Dolores Carl. son of 27 Market street, was order.
 ed to furnish a bond of S250 tc guarantee payment Of $10 a week to his wife for a period of six months. In default of the bond he will be required to serve a 30 day l sentence.