New Britain herald., 1928-04-14

hall opened the polls at 6 o'clock, and three minutes later the police were called to the Camp school spattering the cars which drove up with Paonessa banners. At 6:15 o'clock the moderator in the first ward was slugged for refusing to allow a dead democrat to vote. Be- fore o'clock the curtains had been torn from the voting machines in four wards and Elen armed with rifles were standing by to make sure that all voters pulled the proper lever.
 Shortly after o'clock two can didates withdrew from the field at the point of the pistol and a third was declared ineligible shortly after ward when his body was found hanging from the flagpole atop Wal nut Hill park. Gangben suspected to be in the employ of the democratic town committee trained a howitzer on the Senior High school late in the and blew the polling place and republican majority into bits. during the noon hour. however, when a number of armored cars were turned loose to wreck the fleet of automobiles carrying Pacnessa voters to the polls.
 Two thousand Bartlett votes were secured in the second ward early in the afternoon when three hooded men seized one of the vot- ing machines and pulled the top lever until they collapsed from ex- haustion. The police had just return cd from this outbreak when the fire department was summoned to the Stanley Quarter park wading pool to effect the rescue of niue republican workers who had been thrown into tho water and kept there until they were thoroughly chilled, and unable to return and vote.
 "The riot squad was attacked by an organized force of gangmen from both parties about { o'clock and a pItSHNA oaItiC NlloAVu III NSlltI al park. While this diversion was be- ing created the machines in the sixth ward were stolen and a group of Cut-thrOat mechanics changed the count on those in the fourth ward. The voting began to slacken noticcably toward 5 o'clock as the number of persons not already kid naped lesscned.
 Neither party would accept the count of the string substitutes who finished the day as moderators, and two widely varying sets of fig ures were set forth as correct. It was suspected by now that some- thing might actually be wrong with the totals as recorded on the ma chimes and the figures were disre- garded. A check-up at 9 p. m. re- vealed that the republicans had killed six opponents. Kidnapped 95. slugged 307. and frightened off 542, besides breaking five voting ma chimes, bombing the Bartlett school, and destroying 43 democratic auto mobiles. The democrats, however, had murdered four opponents and five policemen, spirited 94 away, beaten 422. and intimidate 539, while they had stolen four voting machines, torn down the World war memorial, dropped aerial "pineap- ples' on Republican headquarters, and driven q tank through the re- publican candidates home. A com parison of activities left no doubt and the democratic ticket was de- ciared elected"
 Hiding in the trunk of an auto- mobile listening to a man teaching his wife how to drive:
 First you take the transmission shift rod. bring it over to the left ana then back ........ of course you can certainly you car move it ...... pull hard .... we'll 1t ought to move ..,. oh, forgot tt tell you to push out the clutch .. that thing down there near your Jeff foot .... yes, Dear co. now try f
 .... Ohhhhh .... push the clutcf away down, do you want to rip al the teeth off the gears? coco, nov then, you are in first gear .,.. nov
 push the rod forward. across ane
 forward .... *+a66(P>zzxx!
 say. whadda wanta do, wreck thi
 machine? ...... when va chang
 speeds push out the clutch .... no not that thing ....., l told va tn
 clutch was the pedal down near you
 left faat ....... try again and se
 if you can use the little brain
 Heaven gave you ...... now, ono
 more .... remember, throw out tn
 clutch, now push forward .... NC
 NO, NO .... you went into revers
 .... how'd l know you were goin
 to do it? .... we won't have a gea
 left .... know I said forward bu
 you didn't let me finish what l wa
 going to say .... yes, when you g
 all the way forward you start back
 ward .... no, it doesn't sound craz
 .... that's the way the car is mad
 .... now start once more .... g
 into first gear .... that's it-no'
 before you do anything more liste
 to me .... push the rod HAIF WA
 forward .... then across to tn
 right .... that's it .... now fol
 ward again .... THROW OU YOUR CLUTCH, THROW OU YOUR CLUTCH .... there, you'y
 stalled s*'xxxxx-' thing .... yo
 certainly are dumb .... yes, kno I said for better or worse but
 didn't think any human being coul l be so bad .... oh. stop crying -. ) I haven't said a thing yet ...no you're in neutral ..., pull the TO to the left, now back .... now r. lease your clutch .... oh for hes ! ven's sake, you forgot to step c the starter .... always remembt that yOur engine must be runnir