New Britain herald., 1926-12-09
SCOLLA FINED FOR
 SHOOTING v!0ISARD Superior Court Suspends Six
 Months Jail Sentence PYTHIAN SISTERS ELECT
Lillian Teachman Heads Pythian Temple-Middletow Man Fined For Reckless Drlving-Four-Lcg- Sed Chicken Matched Here.

Frank Scolla of Kent street was found guilty of aggravated assault in the superior court yesterday, was fined S200 and costs, and was given six months sentence in jail. Exc cution of the jail term was suspend cd upon condition of good behavior. Scolla was charged with having shot | Herman Noisard twice In the leg as the latter passed across the corner of his cabbage patch on the night of November 5. He told the local authorities when arrested that he had been troubled with thieves in his garden and had taken Voisard for one Of them. Through Alter ney Thomas F. McDonough of New Britain, Scolla entered a plea of nolo contendere.
 Young Voisard spent several weeks in the hospital as the result Of the shooting and still carried both bull lets In his leg. A civil suit against Scola is believed to be pending.
 Pythian Sisters Elect
 
 Pythian Temple. No. 229, r. S., elected officers at it's regular meet ing last night in Odd Fellows hall. The officers chosen were as follows: Past chief. Elizabeth Griffin; most excellent chief, Lillian Teachman; excellent senior Beryle Bannell; ex- cellcnt junior, Emma Aspinall; manager, Margaret Wilber; mistress of recoTsls and correspondence, Meta Smith; mistress of finance, Beatrice Carlson; protector, Emma Andrews; guard, Jennie Lackey; trustee for three years, Veronica Carter; in stalling officer, Veronica Carter; press correspondent, Veronica Car ter. These officers vii be installed at the first meeting in January.
 Gordon Guilty
 Irving Gordon of Middletown ap- peared in the local court before Jus tice Edward r. Prior to answer charges of reckless driving, using improper markers, and evadins re sponsibility. He was arrested two weeks ago after his automobile had been turned over and burned up when it left the roadway at Cooks corner. Through Attorney Charles F. Conlon he pleaded not guilty to all counts.
 Grand Juror William J. Foran put on the witness stand Constable& l. who were present immediately after the accident. The town claimed that the markers on the car had been suspended last April. The two girls who had been with Gordon at the time testified, one saying that the car had been going fast.
 After heated, noisy, and lengthy argument lasting two and hall hours Justice Prior discharged Cor don on the charge of evading re- sponsiblity and fined him S95 and costs on the other two counts.
 Four-LeggeSl Chicken
 A four-.cggcd chicken in Plain ville's latest contribution to the world of freaks. When Michael Nosenko of South Washington street examined the 2,000 chicks which were matched on his farm yesterday he found 1899 of them normal i'll respect to their means Of locomo- ton, but the 2,000th was equipped to- two pairs of legs, The chick was normal in every other way and IS healthy. This is tho first case Of its kind in which Mir. koscnko has fig ured in his eleven years of poultry raising.
 DiMarCO Sues
 A. DiMarco, local contractor, has sued Joseph Battaglia of New Brit ain for SS5O damages, claiming non- payment of a bill. Berman x Der man of Hartford issued the writ, which is returnable the first Tues day of January In the court of com mon pleas Constable Fred Wrinkle has garnsheed money of the de- fendant.