New Britain herald., 1928-04-10
L0AN|NG LICENSE
 COSTS OWNER S25
Two Cases Of Same Type Dis.
 posed of in Police Court

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 Two cases of alleged violation o
 the motor vehicle laws relative tt
 the loaning of operators license:
 were before Judge H. P. Roche 1T
 police court today, one of them hay
 ing developed from the collision
 which damaged the fire alarm box
 at the corner of South Main and
 Whiting streets yesterday forenoon.
 In one of the cases, a discharge was
 entered for lack Of evidence, and in
 the other. finding of guilty was
 made and a fine of so5 and costs
 imposed, Judge Roche observing
 that the offense was serious, with
 the blame divided between the party
 who makes the loan and the one
 who accepts the license.
 Officer David Doty was on Broad street, near Grove street. shortly aft CT S o'clock last evening, when an automobile driven by Edward Back
 us, aged 16 Of 46 Hurlburt street, passed. The officer stopped the car and asked Backus for his license. Backus replied that he had none. Meanwhile, Myer Schneider of 9S Talcott street. who was riding with Backus, had left the car and gone around to examine the headlights. Officer Doty asked Bacllus if Schnef- yJn and np 1J1fpr produced one issued 10 Richard So- kolski, aged 23, Of 95 Grove street. Questioned by the officer, Schneider admitted that it was not his license, and said a stranger in the crowd which had gathered handed it 10 him, telling him to use it 10 help Backus out of his difficulty.
 Officer Doty arrested Backus for driving without a license and then obtained warrant for Soholskl on the charge of loaning his license. He took Sok olski from his bed at o'clock this morning. although the young man insisted that he had not been in the crowd at the time Schneider was handed the license. He told the officer he had lost his license last night in local bowling alley.
 Cross examined by Attorney A. bert A. Greenberg. who represented Officer Doty admitted that he had not seen Sokolski near Back us car but when Schneider saw Sokolski before court today he said l he was sure he was the man who had given. him the license. Schneider testified that he was nerv- ous during the incident last evening ! and he did not obtain q good look i 1t the face of the man who sought l 10 befriend him. He did not know what to do, he said, as he realized 1 that he had no license and could not help Backus out of his trouble. When the stranger handed him the icense and told him to use it he for an instant he might be successful in bluffing the officer. but when he tried to do it he failed. He ! lid not know sokolski and he could ! not swear he was the man who had given him the license.
 Attorney Greenberg contendcd | hat Sokolski was entitled to a dis ,harge without the necessity of talk ng the witness stand and disproving he states case, but Prosecuting At orney Woods claimed that q prima acie case had been made out and it vas Incumbent upon the defense to [tsprove if. Judge Roche remarked hat there was no evidence to prove hat Sokolski was anywhere in the icinity of Broad and Grove streets 1st evening and Schneider. on rhose testimony the casa must stand r fall, could not swear Sokolsll, Fas in the crowd. Therefore, he ischarged Sokolslti. and imposed ne of s10 and costs, execution of he penalty suspended, in the case f Backus. Schneider was not hargcd.
 Someone Fined So5
 Joseph Someone, aged IS, of o2 'rook street, was fined s25 and costs Or loaning his operators license 10 ,aymond Pons, aged q, of lo2 road street. pons was fined sl0 nd costs for operating an automo- ile without license and so5 and ost.s on the charge of reckless driv- F. Attorney Albert A. Grecnberg 5presented the young men.
 Sergeant J. C. Stadler and Officer Nel Carlson testified that they in- estigated d collision about 1n:A0 esterday forenoon. between a car l'iven by Pons and a car driven by |isa Esther Stein of S7 Whiting rect. and from information receiv- I. 1t appeared that Pons was driy- F north on South Main street and al pulled to the extreme left. while isS Stein, driving west on Whiting rect. turned to go south on South ain street. with the result that the IT she was driving sruck the other achine In the center. As a result the collision, the fire alarm box as smashed,
 Garardo Ferony of lS6 South lain street. 2 states witness. testi- d that Miss Stein "cut the corner lorf-" Testimony was also offer that the reason Pons went to the