The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-05
Hit Run Driver Held Crininally Responsible
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the skull was extensive, was prin- cipally on the left side, and there was hemorrhage both extradural and intradural. Solomita was im- mediately removed to St. Mary's hospital where he was treated un- til his death on September 16, 1899.
 l find that the testimony of all the witnesses agrees at every es- sential poin and that the sequence of evidence can be stated as fol- lows:
 At about 7:2o p. m., (E.s.To Michael Zukauskas entered an automobile owned by him at North Square in Waterbury. John Kasprzak rode with him at his right side as a passenger. zukaus- kas intended to take Kasprzak to his place of employment at the Chase Metal Works in Waterville. He drove north on North Main Street at approximately thirty five miles per hour until he reached a point about three hum dred feet south of the intersec- ton of Lakewood Road and North Main Street. At that point two young men named Albert V. Solomita and Louis Mucci, eigh. teen and nineteen years old re- spectiyely, were walking along the right hand or easterly edge of the paved portion of North Main Street, going in a northerly di- rection. Solomita was walking on the pavement about one foot from the edge of the pavement and Mucci was on his right walking in the gravel to the east of the pavement. The paved portion of the road at this point is thirty one feet wide and said point is visible from distance of two hundred fifty feet to the south. zukauskas saw the figures of the boys but continued at the same rate of speed without sounding his horn or giving other warning and without making any attempt to turn his car to the left to avoid them. The right front bumper and mudguard struck Solomita, throwing him into the air for distance of twenty-five feet in a northerly direction and to a point five or six feet to the east of the edge of the paved portion of the highway.
 zukauskas then continued in e northerly direction. without re- ducing speed and without ascer- taining whether or not Solomita was injured or the extent of his injuries, turned up Bucks Hill Road and continued to the Chase Metal Works by way of Perkins Street and Homer Street. He left John Kasprzak t the entrance to Chase Metal Works and went to a tavern on Thomaston Avenue where he was found by Police Officer Wagner within an hour after the accident.
 zukauskas admitted that he had been drinking a good deal of the time during the afternoon and evening of the day on which the accident occurred and that when he entered the car and drove 1t up North Main Street, he was under the influence of intoxicating liquor.
 John Kasprzak, who was brought to the Police Station for question: ing within a short time after he had entered the Chase Metal Works, apparently had every in- tention of explaining the situa- tion to his employer at the first opportunity, and has at all times since appeared to be sincerely CO., operating with the police and the Deputy Coroner in an attempt to establish the circumstances of the accident.
 MT. Kasprzak sair that Zu- kauskas was intoxicated at the time he left North Square, that he warned zukauskas when the boys were first noticeable about fifty faat a ahaad of inc rar that he tOld