New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1928, Page 2

Shuttle Meadow Lake Rendezvous For Bootleggers, Court Is Told ‘Transporter Says He Has Received Load of Alcohol There Weekly for Past 4 1-2 Years, Testimony that Shuttle Meadow lake was a rendezvous used by rum rupners and bootleggers wus given in police court yesterday when two men, accused of violating the liquor laws, were bout court. One of the men testiil for four and a L been going to ! taining a load of alcohol 3 ing it to this city. For this he was paid $25 per Court which opened at the regular time, m., was fn se cept for an adjournment fo until & o'clock last evening, the longest sessious in the of the city. The merning session was ¢ gains o nsum- mith ged of 155 who was originally ehe transporting liquor 1 ater was changed to 1 liquor in his possession With inicn 1o sell; Zigmund Juchniewicz 160 Washing assault; ! Lyman street charged breach of the peace and with tr portin g evieve Kapezynski View, Plainville, ing in danger of falling into h of vice. The three were involved in a fi ubiak home on Lym resulted in sending New Britain Gener seious and landing the the toils of the police Copper Tank Found In Wall When the girl, who had been v ng at Jakubiak's home, left the nest day for her home, police raided tl Jakubiak home and removed a lirg. copper tank from its place o cealment in the walls, and cont ed a car with 50 gallons of liquor on board in a nearby gar lieved to be owned jointly Jakubiak and his broth and Gajda. Genevieve, who ted to misconduct h Gajia an wha was accused by Gajda of similar offenses with Jakubiak, which denied emphatically, repeating: “He is lying,” was ordered by Probation Officers E. C. Connoliy and Ruth Bristol, and by George Will ving men on Septem it at the Jak- strect whic ajda hospital uncon other two in | th em Connecticut Humane society, to in away from the influcnce of Jakubiak home. Mrs. Jakubiak at that time was an inmate of a state institution for mental discascs | while one daughter is in another in- stitution. In the morning session when the ault cuse was tried, Jakubiak and {Juchniewicz were represented by e William F. Mangan and 2 v Harry Ginsburg. Judge I serford represented Gajda. mony was to the effect that and Jakub indulged in all the attorneys agreed was a sonuine “old fashioned knock down 1 drag out fight.” A®milk bottle, om a cold cream jar, a a gas range, a Kitch rocker, and the cl dipper, chair and a deor of a china to have helped Gajda qualify for a in the police patrol to the hos- vhile policemen testified to ains from the Kitchen door bed room. Jakubiak rede to o station in th m which took Gaj Juchnicwiez Some amusement dewiez indignantly de- @ blood stain on his shirt 1 Ly this fight, and said it other assault in which s previously. ived its al- police attention rid en Ju ied that ment of m its turn, Gadja Gets Revenge Bach man cliimed the other was ssor. Policemen Thomas e and Gustave Hellberg, Sergeant L Stadler, geant Patrick Patrolman Edward Kiely, iewicz, Alex Marchinski and or two other witnesses testified virious interpretations of All agreed that no matter 10 started the fight or for what Gajda was badly down and t the finish. Gajda's revenge, however, according to subse took the form of a con- ssion exposing w the police b lieve nd systematically o ized rum running opcration in history of the city, and one h covered a period of four and a half years, suppiying liquor to the ter portion of the section of the ecity. official stimony, wis a large wl When court reconvened ifternoon, instead of hearing argu- ments on the assault case, it wag agreed to proceed immediately into the taking of evidence in the other cha On the liquor ¢ s 1 trolman Thomas Lee was the first in the itness, northeastern | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1928, He testified to going to a place in |the rear of §7 Gold street on Sep- [ tember 2§ upon infermation receivs led by Lieutenant Samuel Bamforth and finding a car containing some- hing which smelled suspiciously like — | alcohol. He telephoned police head- Lquarters and Lieutenant Bamforth dispatched Sergeant Avay and Patrolmen Otis Hopkins and Edward Kiely to the scene. Liquor Found in Auto Scrgeant McAvay had in his pos session a set of keys taken from the cnvelope holding property of Frank | wants Jakubiak, who was locked up in the police station. The keys opened the «r of the car, where the police tound 10 five gallon cans full of al- cohol. “Tie car and liquor ported te police Jakubiak interviewed in his cel suid the car was owned by his broth- or Tony of 170 Diroad street, in whose name it was registered. Tony <ubscquently denied ownership and said it was registered in his name without his knowledge. | The police went to Tony's home \nd later found him at the Lyman |street address. In his posscssion was a duplicate set of keys to the car. lurther investigation revealed the fact that the car was insured jointly in the names of the two Jakubiak lirothers and Gajda, who claimed to e an employe of Frank. A bill of sule showed the ecar to have been | sold to Frank. | Hergeant Patrick 0'Mara then | took up another angle of the inves- | tigation and interviewed Gajda in [the hospital the day he was dis- charged. In the presence of Jaku- biak, Gajda said he was hired by | the former for $25 a week to drive |to Shuttle Meadow lake where he re- ccived 50 gallons of liquor twice a {week, which he brought back to | Jakubiak. Jakubiak is alleged to | have stated “lajda squealed every- | thing, the liquor belongs to both of us | Gajda changed his testimony a I number of times during the day, making statements one time which |he flatly denied later, The police however submitted in evidence a | written confession, signed by him, which he admitted having made. Sergeant O'Mara, Scrgeant Stad- ler and Patrolman Kiley said they went to the Jakubiak home and found the large copper tank bedded in the wall with a tube leading to the bed room and a | other tube leading to another por- tion of the house. They were as- | sisted in thelr search by Patrolman John Licbler. They were forced to tear out some of the plaster to re- move the tank, Frank Jakubiak was being held on a charge of assault, was further charged with transporting and sell- ling liquor. George Williams of the | Connecticut Humane soclety testi- fied that he was present at the were® trans- im- | headquarters and | Feeney on 1l. He | | | | | | neighbor. hospital when Gajda made his con- fession implicating Frank Jakubiak. Liquor Customer Testifies Harry Sheremeta of ¢ Union. street testified to having purchased liquor at the homee of Jakubiak. He also sald he had seen Jakubiak deliver liquor Patrick Mc- | home of a ncighbor. by Mr, Woods the answer that question He frequently to the was asked name of the He replied: P “Must 1 Mr. Woods did not press the question but Mr. Mangan demanded a reply. to know?" witness. of Vido dem “Who anded the Tnstructed by the court to | answer he said it was to the home Tomashefski, who lives downstairs in the same tenement on Unien street, Bergeant Stadler Juchniewics on 8¢ and their way ptember 26, saw | Bergeant to arrest a gon of Frank Jakubiak carrying a can of liquor out of and concealing it in the back yard, Sergeant Stadler testified. Walter Persnowski, vears, of 161 Broad street, was in| house the aged 11 Jakubiak's back yard on the 25th when the latter drove in with a car, | which, he said was the same car | DPomeand did not return until the re. later confiscated by the police. Gajda, brought back to the stand, said Jakubiak sent him to Shuttle| Meadow for the load of liquor on| He sald he| the date mentioned. had been deing this twice a week for four and a half years and was paid $25 a week for his work. one time, he said, he helped Jaku-| biak deliver liquor over the north | end to stores and other customers.|there for $12 a week doing house At Later he denied making any such statement. He sald he drove th car to' Jakubiak's home where the latter took two cans. Then he (Gajda) took the car to the garage where two other cans were added, completing the original load. aid Jakubiak went out to deliver of the court. He two cans, totalling in contents 10 gallons, while he house, 1t was waited at upon Jakubiak's the return that the fight ensued witnesses dis- agreeing as to the exact cause or}mmmued in care of hostilities. Gajda admitted when cross exam- | employment in some good home. ined by Judge Mangan that the car was i nsured in the name of the two | Jakubiak brothers and himself, and after several den! Is, finally admit- ted that they were partners in the business. He denied kn®wing men from whom he got the liquor. He said he waited one hour at Shuttle Meadow while they drove off with his ear and got the liquor, after which they returned the Calls Prasecut| ar to him. nfair In the arguments which followed the taking of testimony, Judge Man- gan raised the point that the prose- cution was showing a spirit of une fairnes: in not charging Gajda with | offenscs he actually admitted, while charging Jakubiak with the more | serious offense. 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Judme Roche said the assault case and the each other that he would~net take lquor chargeg were so bound yp in jurisdiction, and in the face of Mr. Weod's insistence refused te acoept the latter's recommendation, He or- dered the three mep held for su- perior court in the same amount of | bail previously imposed which is |$1500 for Jakublak, $500 for Gajda {and $300 for Juchniewicz. Girl Given Hearing At a private hearing in the ease of the girl, witnesses testified that she also had sold liqgyor while employed as adomestie at the Jakuhlak house. Mr. Willlams, Mr. Connolley and Miss Bristoll reported having advised | her to leave the Jakublak home. Her attorney Mr. Ginsburg also reported having given her similar advice. Mr. Ginsburg said she left the Jakubiak turn of Mr&, Jakubiak from Norwich, At this point a recurrence of a situation which has caused some em, barrassment to local authorities in the past by ulleged ever officieus- ness of the Connegticut Humane so- ciety again cropped up, when Mr. Williams admitted having arbitrarily ordered the girl to leave the Jaku- biak home. #he said she worked work and caring for the children, Judge Mangan asked Mr. Williams vhere he got his authority to order the girl to leave and after pressing him for an answer which was not orthcoming, advised him that he had no right to usurp the authority | | Judge Roche ordered Genevieve to |leave the Jakublak home at ence | upon penalty of being committed to | the House of the Good Bhepherd. She agreed to leave and her case was Miss Bristoll, iwho has agreed to try and get her ENTERTAINS AT WHIST Mrs. Claude Leroux Jr,, entertain- | ed the members of her whist club at | her home, 649 Arch street, yesterday afternoon. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Henry Hill and Mrs. Bertha Roche. Luncheon was served. | READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS 1000 ROOMS Bingle $8.00 to $4.00 " WELCO TO THIS INN OF HOSPITALITY POLICEMAN EXONERATED OF CHARGE BY WOMAN Discipline Commities Finds No " Ground For Complaint Against Patrolman Jehn O'Keefs, sgainst whom complaint was made by a weman living op Glen strest was o5- onerated by the board of police oom- missioners last night, e recom. mendation by the committee on rules and discipline, who found no cause for the camplaint, which had to de with the patrolman's handling of a case af violdtion of the motor vehi- cle Jaws in which the weman's hus- band figured several months ago. The committee recently held a hear- ing on the matter and the finding was unanimeus. Supernumerary Officer T. W. Riley was penalized one day's y for falling to put in a duty call and Pa- troiman William Pelitis and James Sullivan were each fined two days' vacation for the same offense. Bu- pernumerary Officer Gulseppe Gig- liottie was fined one day's pay for failure to obey a superior officer and Patrolman Ernest P. Bloomgquist was fined six days' vacation en charges of neglect of duty and fail. ing to adhere to & sergeant’s instruc. tions, The penalties were recom- mended by the committee on rules and discipline aftér hearings a few weeks age. Chairman M. W. Bannen reperted for the traffic committee thiit a trial is being made of an arrangement at Main and East Main streets sug- gested by Mayor Pacnessa, but it is impessible te gauge results accurate. ly on account of the interference with traffic eaused by the Main street railread crossing repairs. The trial will be continued for the pres- ent. Frederick T. A. 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