New Britain herald., 1930-01-16
BOY STORE THIEVES ADMIT BURGLAR|ES
"InStallment Plan" LooterS
 Given Chance to Behave

Boleslaw Michalski. 16, of S6 Gold
 street, was given a suspended com-
 mitment to the state reformatory at Cheshire on the charge of theft, by
 Judge Stanley J. Traccski in police
 court today, and placed in charge Of
 Probation Officer E. C. Connolly, l while his companions, Walter TocZ-
 ko, r, of 49 Lyman street and
 Walter klichowski. 16, of 1G1 Gold street, were placed on probation for
 one year
 Although q plea Of not guilty was
 entered by Prosecuting Attorney !. G. Woods in the three cases, each Of the boys admitted that they had used a key to enter Stanley Mlynar- skis store at 46 Horace street. Xii chowski and Michalslli were charged with theft of check for s1O.4l or January !. and Toczko was charged with theft of 50 cents on Dec. %, .1929
 After Detective Sergeant Ellinger and Sergeant elect Kiely had testi- fled to the arrests and admissions made by the trio. Mlynarslli testi- fled that fully s100 worth of mer- chandise and money had been taken within the past few months. He
 finally caught small boy in the store and drew from him the story | of theft of a key from Mlynarski's home by still another youngster, and then it came to light that Michalski
 had taken the key from the first
 boy and made use of it to enter the store Michalski. who was the ringleader | in the opinion of Judge Traceski, ! denied that he had anything to do | with the wholesale thefts from the store and claimed that he took noth- ' ing more than the check. two pack / ages of cigarettes and about s2. Klichowski admitted being with : Michalski when the check was taken | and when it was cashed at the City { National bank. TOczko's story was
 that he lost the money his sister
 gave him for Christmas, in q crap
 game and finding himself in the
 prcdicament of wanting to attend
 the movies but lacking the price Of
 ticket, he wen1 into the store on
 Christmas night. He admitted that
 he knew it was against the law and he agreed with Judge TraCeski that the price of a theater ticket was not worth two years in the reformatory
 Judge Traceski lectured the trio and told Probation Officer Connolly that one of the terms of their pro- baton was that they must make restitution 10 the storekceper. Dur ing the trial, Judge 'rracoski found 1 it necessary to lebuke the specta tors in the gallery for tittoring. He
 warned them that they would be put out of the court room if they in terrupted proceedings again. "Thesc boys are charged with theft and it
 is serious" he declared.
 Paul Malewajek. 8 Of 101 Gold street, was fined S5 without costs on
 charges of drunkenness and as sault. He was arrested about 2:26 o'clock this morning on complaint of lgnatZ Wrenta of 50 HoraceI street, who testified that he was
 asleep when Malewajek entered his
 home and assaulted him. Officers | Edward MusZynski and W. J. Me i Carthy testified that Wrenta had the i skin on his right cheek broken and his eye was red, where he was hit | Malewajek testified that he and Wrenta were friends and had been out together during the day. He went to Wrenta's home on invita- ! ton. he claimed but admitted that 1t
 was an unseemly hour 10 go visit 1 ing. He said 1t was his first arrest and liquor was the cause of it.