Putnam patriot., 1925-09-11

,o Putnam, where court will convene next Tuesday morning.
 The first case down for trial Is that af County Game Warden Charles M Letters of Putnam. charged with man. daughter. Following eoroner's in- auest in to the cause of the death of Miss Anna Elizabeth McCauley of Providence, who died at the Day Kim hall hospital following an accident on School street, when she was hit and injured by an automobile driven bv Mir. Letters, the county game warden was held under bonds of S2,- 900. The coroner found that Miss NeCau!ey's death was due to the criminal carelessness of Mr. Letters Following Mr. Letters arrest he was arraigned at a session of the Putnam city court where q demurrer to the s.ate's complaint was entered and he was bound over to the superior court.
 Mr. Letters has retained Attorney Charles L. Tofrey of Putnam to de- fend nm and he elected Co be tried by the court instead of the jury.
 Woodstock Boys
 The continued eases of six Wood stock boys charged with statutory bur Flary in the village Of South Wood sock. January 25, March 3. and March , of this year were taken up Wednesday. They were represented bv Attorney Charles L. Torrey as guardian ad litem. The youths work ed in various combinations but all were implicated in one or the other of the series of crimes, 1t was explain ed by Special State Attorney Howard Bradford. Articles valued at about s200 were stolen from the homes of Clarence W. Bowen, Gustave Brick son and H. Customs. Previous breaks had been made by the boys, but com plete restitution had been made In these cases and they were not lnelud- ed in the charges All of the boys agreed 10 repay for the stolen proper ty or return such stolen articles as they still possessed. According to the amount of leadership each of the boys took in the breaks, they were assessed in percentage for the amounts to be restored. Two of the older boys were sentenced to the state reformatory with judgment suspended and they were placed in the care of Special Probation Officer Robert l. Harris Of South Wodstock. for one year The younger boys were given suspended sentences to the School for Boys and placed iH charge of Mr. Harris for one xtar. In the ease of the oldest of the boys Attorney TorreY stated that the Nauag man had made application to ia-H the L. :. Navy. Judge Avery stated that if the Lad actually enlisted h the Navy he would revoke the pro- hatian sentence in order to give him a chance Co begin service with a clean record.
 North Grosvenordale Case
 Thursday the ease of John Dvan- ehas of Worcester was tried 10 the jury. He was charged with viola non of the rules of the road at North Grosvenordale resulting in an auto mobile accident in which three cars figured on August 2.
 Staskwitz was the first witness call ed He testified that he was travel ing along Main street in Grosvenor- dale, returning home with his family from trip to Webster, Mass. He met the defendants ear, he stated, and it forced him over to the side oi the road. He was unable to avoid collision. The impact damaged ms wheels so that he swerved in the road way and collided with a second car, q Buick operated by Charles J. White of Worcester. A number of witnesses for the state testified that he was on the right hand side of the road with the right side of the car as close as possible to the trolley tracks to the right side of the road. The witness. es were Don Dalige, Gemai Sherir and Abbul Huzman three Albanians who were walking in the road near the scene of the accident.
 State Policeman Edward V. Strea- man. who investigated the accident, testified to finding three cars, Stu debaker. a Buick and the Staskwitz Ford all damaged, the latter machine having suffered the most. He detail ed the positions of the car relative to the right of the road and the trolley tracks and the distance between ma chimes being operated in the same direction.
 Defendant Testifies
 Following the lunch hour the de- feuse presented it's side of the case. John Dvanehas the accused and dflN- VT Hh the V -NlatltfAhENt At.1AAAAa-t N-t'@-
 Ford was partly within the trolley tracks, and when nearing his ear swerved out and truck his ear which was on the right hand side of the road. Charles G. White was the next witness. He stated that a party of three ears Of which his Rlick was one and the last iu line. were returning from y oreestef after 2 trip 70 Ocean Beach. Aew l.en- don. Leading the procession was Nash machine. Next came the stpde- baker. and lastly his own. Suddenly he saw the Ford which was coming from the opposite direction, swerVe 10 the wrong side of the road and strike the Studebaker, which was about iV9 feet ahead of his own car. The Ford then eareened back into the trolley tracks. described semi-cirele and smashed into his front left fender. All ter seeing the first collision he had ap- piled his four wheel brakes and stop ped. being at a standstill when strueh by the Ford. |
 Other witnesses were Mrs. W hite, l Mrs. Julia Sabaski, Walter Saoaski' ] the driver of the Nash ear, and Inom- i as Stoskus, Mike Stoskus and MIs.I Mrs Victoria Stoskus, who were riding With John Dvanchas in the Studehaker,
 Both sides rested their eases at d.lV o clock. after additional testimony re, garding measurements Of the road hao