New Britain herald., 1926-11-24
WOMAN TAKES BLAME
 FOR STRIKING AUTO
Continued from First Page)

Sergeant Ellinger testified that
 Mrs. Sorosky asked what the charge against her husband was, and when he told her, she upbraided her hus- band and swore at the police, crying out that they had raided her home when her baby was sick and now they are making more trouble and she supposed they will be around after her when she is dying. She could have told the police she was driving at that time or later when she accompanied her husband to the police station, the sergeant said.
 The sergeant said he did not tell the woman to Shut up" but he warned her not to swear and curse and If she could not use decent lan- guage, she should ot talk at all. Prosecuting Attorney Woods said there is no question that Sorosky was driving the car at the time of ! the collision. His wife was securing ! the neighborhood for him and when she found him he was in the arms of the law.
 Attorney NJ. D. Sake, representing fSorosky. said he is unwilling to be- lieve that the witnesses are lying. It is only natural that Mrs. Sorosky should have driven the car because her husband was so intoxicated he was unable to control his faculties. Sorosky had just fallen asleep when he was arrested. Being tired and intoxicate l, he was in poor condition to make coherent statement when aroused, yet his statement is the only bit of evidence against him.
 Certainly he has not been proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, the attorney declared.
 Judge filling continued the case until Saturday morning.
 Henry LeMay. aged 21, of l62 North street, pleaded not guilty to the charge of reckless driving and was represented by Attorney David l.. Dunn. Officer M. J. Moore testi- fled that he was on Grove street about 7;45 last night when he heard a crash and on arriving at the cor ner of High and Lafayette streets, he found two cars.
 One was driven by LeMay and the other by Arthur Swanson of 50 Barnett street. LeMay told the off, cer he sounded the horn on his car and was driving at the approximate rate of 20 miles an hour. Swanson, however, said LeMay was driving 35 miles an hour according to the off cer. Swanson claimed he was driv- ing about s or ] miles an hour. He sounded the horn and brought his car almost to :. complete stop be- cause he realized the corner is dan gerous.
 LeMay was driving east on Laf- ayette street and Swanson was driv- ing north on High street Joseph Pierson 0. 5S Barnett street, who was with Swanson. testified that Le- May was driving at the rate of ap- proxmately 35 miles an hour. Swanson's car had come almost to stop and had just about started again when the collision occurred.
 Supernumerary Officer Cornelius Keogh testified to the damage to the cars.
 LeMay testified that he was driv- ing not .Istcr than 15 or 20 miles an hour.
 Prosecuting Attorney Woods claimed a conviction. Swanson had the right of way. LeMay was driv- Ing recklessly he said. Attorney Dunn contende. that the collision was purely an accident. It has none of the elements of reckless driving.
 Judge filling discharged LcMay and remarked that he believed Swanson had the right of way.
 The case impressed him as one Of possible violation of the rules of the road. but not reckless driving