New Britain herald., 1929-05-21

was at the corner of North street and Hartford avenue and heard . crash. Going up to the corner of Oak and North streets he found car against . curb on North street with the rear right wheel broken and marks on the road on Oak street showed for . distance of ap- proximately IS feet from North street.
 Henninger told the officer. ac- cording to the latter, that he turn cd the corner at the rate of .5 miles an hour. which the officer considered too fast in view of the rain and the oily condition of the roadway.
 Attorney McDonough claimed a discharge on the ground that the state had not made out case. As- sistant Prosecuting Attorney W. NJ. Greenstein contended that 25
 miles an hour was too high rate Of speed al which to turn the cor ner when the road was dry. not to mention as wet as it was on Sum- day.
 Attorney McDonough contended that it was we'll defined principle of law that an admission by an ac- cused person was not sufficient for a conviction unless there was other evidence and in this case there was ui, Ia <o renee. Judge Saxe denied the mo tion and suggested that Henninger tell his story.
 Says Car Skiddel Henninger claimed to have been driving at the approximate rate of 15 miles an hour along Oak stree; and the car, which is owned by his father, skidded slightly but when it struck the trolley tracks on North street the wheel seemed to give way.
 He denied that he told Officer
 Erickson anything about speed. The officer did not ask him how fast
 he was driving but simply told him
 he understood he was quite a speeder" and placed him under ar rest.
 Judge Sake remarked that the evidence was slight and he was in-
 clined to give Henninger the bene- fit of the doubt.
 Fined For Having Defective Brakes Five motorists were fined 35
 without costs on the charge of driv- ing cars with defective brakes: Pe- ter kielezewski, 25, of 1S0 Broai 1 street: Sebastiano Cano. B, of Plainville road: Robert Schmidt. 1e.
 of IS Washington street. Plainville: i:
 Stanley Zipp, 21. of 3l Star street:
 Herman Simonsen, 34. of New Bri! .
 ain avenue. Plainville. Judge Saxe
 repeated his warning of yesterday
 that costs will be added to the fines
 if the offense is repeated. Fillmore w. Olson, %. of 474
 Burritt street. charged by Officer
 David Doty with overlooking a
 truck, pleaded not guilty and had
 his case continued until Saturday in $AVo oVhQAs
 Fight in Cleansing Plant John Cianflone. ~. of 23S North
 street, pleaded not guilty to the
 charge of breach of the peace and
 was fined S5 without costs. Judge w. F. Mangan appeared for him. Sergeant T. J. Feeney testified that he made the arrest last night l about s o'clock at the Star Clean- ing company at 234 North street on
 complaint Of Harry Sherman of that concern. Sherman testified that
 Cianflone came into the place anl wanted to know who assaulted his boy. Sherman told him he did not know the name of the boys assail- ant as he had gone to work for him only yesterday. whereupon Cianf1one picked up a bottle of ink and made a gesture as though to throw it. st the same time threatening to shoot Sherman if he did not produce the boys assailant. Cianfone's wife grabbed his arm and prevented him