New Britain herald., 1929-08-06
C0NLON DENOUNCES AUTO|ST IN COURT 
 Speeding Driver Splatters Pass
 ing Car With Road Oil RECEIVES HEAVY FINE
Mrs. Mary Royce Steele Claimed By Death-LocaI Boy Is Again Hon. ored at Trinity College - Plan Commission Passes Lines.

Denouncing it as the meanest act that had ever come before his at tention, Prosecutor Charles F. Con- ion severely fayed Gustave A. Treib
 CT of North Washington street in the town court this morning for his al legged carelessness in speeding over the new road oil on North Washing ton street yesterday. resulting n heavy damage to a machine owned
 by Carl B. Stagg of 1266 Whalley avenue, New Haven, and injury to
 his person. The local man was charged with speeding and evading
 responsibility, it being one of the
 most unusual cases ever to appear in a Plainvllle court.
 According to the testimony given
 to the court by the New Haven man. he was driving his car along North Washington street at about 20 miles i m hour He stated that he was on the right side of the road. which was | rot covered with oil. MT. Treibet came along on the opposite side of the street, which was covered with l fresh oil, at a fast rate of speed, causing the oil to smear all over ms car on both exterior and interior Ills | clothes were also badly damaged by | the fluid.
 NIr. Stagg claimed that he blew l his horn continually after he had been splashed by the oil but Mir. Treiber merely laughed at him and | continued down the street. He im-
 mediately turned his car around and
 chased after the Plainville driver. l He came up to him near the Con- gregatlonal church, where he claim i ed that Mr. Treiber would not give
 him any satisfaction and told him 1 that it was his hard luck.
 Mr. Stagg also told the court that | the Plainville driver refused to show l him his license and that he was | forced to copy the numbers on the
 license plates in order to report it
 to the police. He claimed that h- was covered with oil from head to foot even his face being smeared with the fluid.
 The Plainville man in his own de- fense, stated that he was travelling from five to ten miles an hour when he approached the New Haven car and that he did not know that he had smeared the passing machine with oil. He also stated that he did not know that Mir. Stagg was trying 10 catch him and that he had no knowledge that anything had hap pened until Mr. Stagg came up to | him near the Congregational church. l Mr. Treiber claimed that ne told the New Haven man that he was very sorry and also said that he had shown his license 10 Mr. Stagg upon request,
 Mr. Treibcr also told the court that his car had received twice as much tar oil as the New Haven mans car had but that under the existing conditions on the street he had not stopped to make any con- ment about it.
 A hot verbal battle took place be- tween Prosecutor Conlon and Mir. Treiber for nearly 20 minutes. MT. Treiber took the stand and said that ke had been proceeding at only SID" ldlt ol Spttu anu liioI llC llcb had no knowledge of the misfortune. therefore he had not stopped his ma chine and was not guilty of evading responsibility.
 Prosecutor Conlon told the court that it was the meanest act that he had ever heard of and that it was a detestable act He told the court that it was Mir. Treiber's duty to stop his machine and allow the New Haven car to pass but that evident iy he was a road hog"
 Judge Merritt o. Ryder found the local man guilty and fined him $50 and costs. rem,tting $40 of the fine.
 Both Prosecutor Conlon and Con- stable George Schubert testified that they had seen Mir. Stagg's ma chine after the accident and that
 both he and the car were "a sight to behold"
 The case was one of the most un-
 usual 10 appear in the local court in some time and attracted Consid- erable attention. Even after the