New Britain herald., 1928-01-18
Of WOMAN
 WINS COURT FAVOR
Economic prsslls Prompted
 Ha to Sell Liquor, lIye Slys

Because of the self-denial she practiced tn an effort to support her three children. Mrs. Mack D. Hall, aged g. of ITO Arch street. who pleaded guilty in police court today to the charge of violating the liquoe law at her home. was ordered to pay only the costa Of the court. amanting o s23.ls. Judge Roche imposed . fine of Slso and costs and . jail sentence of IS days. but suspended both with warning to Mrs. Hall that the courts have held violation of the liquor law to be . serious oflense and If she is convicted again she will be dealt with severely.
 After Mrs. Hall pleaded guilty. Sergeant P. J. O'Mara testified that an agent" of the police purchased . bottle Of alleged liquor in the Arch street tenement on January and again yesterday, spending $2 tho first time and $2 the second time. Using 8 search warrant, Sergeants O'Mara and Flynn found coffee pot filled with alleged ''moonshine" liquor and a few bottles of alleged Scotch whisky. They also recovered the S3 given the agent by Sergeant O'Mara. Complaints were made by Omcer Thomas Lee while he was night patrolman on Arch street. Sergeant O'Mara said. and 1t was on this information that action was taken.
 Judge William F. Mangan. repre- senting Mrs. Hall. told Judge Roche the woman has had considerable trouble of a domestic nature and aa . result she has been hard pressed
 for funds with which to support herself and her children. She freely admitted that she had sold liquor
 but not while her children were
 living with her. Judge Mangan said
 In all probability. the contemplated
 return of tho children from the
 home Of . relative. and the attend
 ant expense of their support
 prompted Mrs. Hall to violate thu
 law. he said. but as a matter of fac
 she has not realized a profit through
 it. She is a trained nurse and in ad
 dition to conducting roomint
 house she took cases when she coult obtain them, all in an effort to mee
 her expenses. A roomer in her hom
 owns the bottles of alleged whisky Judge Mansan said, and she migh 7 not have sold to the police "agent but for the fact that she knew him Il l Canada some years ago. All thing considered. Judge Mangan said, h [ felt she deserved leniency.
 s0nlsni in Again
 Anthony Romani, aged 1s. of IF t Whiting street. charged with un l lawful assemblage on the street an e resistance pleaded not guilty and re
 quested that his case be continue . until tomorrow. Judge Roche grant q ed the request.
 il Romani was arrested about !, o'clock last evening on Whkin - street by Officer Louis E. Harpe
 who lost his night stick In the scui s file that ensued when Romani refu, I, ed to move. according to the polio f Romani was in police court on Jar n uary II at the instance of Ofict l. Ustach, on the same charge, an $ Judge eaxe suspended judgment an
 warned him to obey the police tl d stead of standing on rights he ": il not sure he possessed. Romanis d,
 fense was that he had read in Il W newspapers that Judge William 0 Mangan made the statement F. court when defending Ignati' y tWhitey) Wisk that there is no la
 compelling one or two persons fs move unless they are creating di