New Britain herald., 1929-10-01

our transportation costs. we had op- crating bills of approximately $5,000 for the week we stayed here.
 "The total amount of money in the hands of the Tabs committee at the present time amounts to about s2, 900. This. by all logic of our agreement belongs to the company. At the present time, there are 32 people stranded in this city, unable to pay their hotel or boarding house bills, some of them without a place to sleep tonight and others without even the means with which to eat today.
 Defends Employees
 Ut certainly is an injustice to these people to have this money of theirs held up. to have them ridi- culed about this town, to have them blamed because two hangers-o on have gone to jail on sordid charges and to have these people held up as mo- good troupers.
 No snowman. no matter how big or small, invites trouble of any sort. Those two boys who were arrested during the week. were not members of my troupe. They were like any other hangers on, lured away by the tales of circus life"
 Explains Animal Suits
 Mr. Knight then went on to ex- plain tha circus side of the occur rcnces, first in Middletown resulting in @ $1 0O0 suit against the show people and another resulting in $5,O00 suit
 Tn Middletown," Mr. Knights ex- plained, i've were working in con- junction with a committee from an Italian church. They wanted to hold a pep meeting and they came to William Schultz, owner and train- CT of the animals and wanted to take two lion cubs to the meeting place.
 "Mr. Schultz demurred against taking the cubs away. He said that they had been caged up for three days and would be restless when let out. The committee member in- sisted that he had his automobile there and they would be taken in that. Schultz allowed them to go, himself going along with them.
 ''On the way to the meeting hall, the cubs scratched the car, which was about five years old, and dirtied it up in other ways. The owner of the automobile stated that these things were nothing and he passed them off with a laugh. The circus made no money there and that is the primary reason for the S1,OO0 suit. We are not afraid to go to court with it. We would welcome the Op- portunity.
 Then turning to the accident that befell Jacob Kwasnik in being bit ten by bear from which the boys father, John Kwnasnik has seen fit to bring suit for $5,000, Mr Knight said:
 Says Boy Was Trespasscr
 "That boy wasn't patron at the circus, he had Sncaked in the back tent where were quartered all the animals with the show. He had to lift two sections of canvas to get into where the bears were. Those animals are like dogs or any other animals. They are peaceful gen. orally, but they can be irritdted. es- pccially the way the youngsters were behaving out at the circus grounds.
 q have knowledge that these boys were plaguing the bears. Another to1I hnI hn boy into the bear and that's the way he received his injury. They cant holds us responsible for that.
 "Thcre were two policemen at the grounds trying to the absolute best of their ability to keep these boys away but there were about 500 boys there and some of them got inside. If the bear had been out in the open or near the front entrance. then. we would be liable. but when the boy sneaked in to the dressing tents in the rear of the big tent. then he was liable himself for anything that might happen"
 Deputy Sheriff Martin ", Horwitz stated that the owners of the Cameo theater in Bristol were ready and willing to testify to the integrity of Mir. Knight. He played there last summer and again two years ago.
 More than one-half the entire tea importations into the United States are handled at New York.