New Britain herald., 1927-02-04
FREE LUNCH DAYS
 ARE GONE FOREVER
Customer Didn't Know It; That's
 How Fight Started z

A rough and tumble fight in a
 restaurant at 32 Hartford avenue
 about s:30 last night was described
 in police court this morning. when
 Joseph Jazas, aged 34. of 30 Hart
 ford avenue, and Philip Romanies,
 aged 45, of S4 Dudley street, were arraigned on charges of breach of the peace and assa aulting each other.
 Sergeant O'Mara, Officer Hellberg
 Doty and Santucci made the ar- rests on complaint, and Judge filling lined each of the accused s and costs.
 According to the testimony, Ro- 'manies went into the restaurant sev- eral days ago and ate 30 cents worth of food. for which he did not pay. Last evening he returned and tried to duplicate the stunt. but Jazas demonstrated. A scuffle en- sued and was featured by a shower of catsup bottles, salt shakers and other utensils. Jazas was cut in four places on the head and requir- ,u ilOulIdi dltCHIlOl. suffered injuries to his hands.
 Carl Brisk. aged 2S, of 46 Belden street, and Henning Lindour aged 29, Of 45 Main street, charged with evasion of food bill in a restaur- ant at 29 Pearl street conducted by H. c. Davis. colored, pleaded not guilty and their cases were contin- ued until tomorrow morning to al- low Frisk time to engage counsel. The men were arrested late yester- day by Officer Hanford Dart on complaint by Davis that they and three others left the restaurant Wednesday night without paying for their food. They had bottle of liquor with them and wanted to dance with the waitresses. accord ing to Davis.
 Early yesterday afternoon Davis made complaint to Captain Kelly but did not state that the men had left without paying their bills. He mentioned only the disturbance and the captain advised him to notify the police at once in such cases. Davis, seeing Frisk and Lindour on the street later, called Officer Dart A waitress employed in the restaur- ant identified one of the men, while another waitress could not identify either of them. According to Da- wis, one of the five men in the party said he was the mayor and ordered the bill for the meal sent to his office.
 Judge filling recommended that Assistant Prosecuting Attorney W. M. Greenstein enter a nolle In the case of George w. Heller, aged 2S, of 162 Vance street, charged with reckless driving. Heller was arrest ed by Officer Michael Meehan We'd nesday forenoon at Park and Main streets after a Swift & Upson Co. truck driven by him collided with a truck which was in front Of 1t. Heller testified that the other driver came to a stop, then started and suddenly slackened his speed, which made it impossible to avoid the col lision as Heller was driving about twelve feet to the rear. William Hiltbrand testified that Heller was not at faui.
 Judge Alling said in all probabil- iy an effort will be made to collect damages and as there was no evid- ence of reckless driving he recom- mended a nolle instead of dis charge.
 Eugene Galpin, aged 50, Of Hol- yoke. Mass. charged with assault and breach of the peace. on com plaint of Thomas Brosk of 3S3 Main street, was fined s7 and costs. He admitted he punched Broski on tha ear because the latter called him a bad name. He called me such a name that you would hit your own father If he ever called it to you" Galpin said to Assistant Prosecuting Attorney w. M. Green stein. He denied he took money from Broski. as claimed by the lat ter.
 Sergeant P. J. O'Mara and Officer W. J. Mccarthy testified to the and the arrest, The trou- be occurred on Lafayette tsreet, ac- cording to Galpin.
 Walter Martin. aged 25. of New !ngton, charged with non-suport. pleaded unemployment as the req son he has failed to support his wife and two children. aged years and 20 months, for the past three weeks. Judge filling continued the case until February 19. on proba-