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1918: Divorce summons goes from Switzerland to Warren

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

99 years ago in 1918:

• After much search and investigation, Sheriff McBride had located Rosina Steiner for whom he received a summons in a divorce case filed against her in Switzerland.

When the divorce was started, the woman resided in Warren and the papers were sent to this country through the Swiss consul. The consul at Cincinnati forwarded them to Sheriff McBride for service.

When the sheriff learned that the woman had moved to Michigan and there married a man named Godfrey Butler, he notified the consul at Cincinnati and returned the papers to him.

• A transcript filed in court against Gene Blair, Ben White, Ford Davis and Adolph Hall, charged the men with violating the peace of the village.

The paper stated they disturbed the peace of the village by unjustifiable clamor, noise and profane language, and were guilty of malicious mischief in that they put out the electric lights in the village.

50 years ago in 1967:

• Charges of auto theft made in connection with two stolen cars and thefts made from at least 11 other vehicles in two months were filed by the Trumbull Sheriff’s Office against two Warren youths following their arrests in Windham.

The two had driven to Windham in a car stolen from the Packard Electric lot. The two admitted taking a car and driving it to Canton where three boxes of tools were stolen from a truck, deputies said.

The car was abandoned in a wooded area near Lyntz-County-line Road and was recovered two days later by Deputy Eugene Sprocket.

Eight other cars in the Packard parking lot had been looted and damaged prior to the theft, Sprocket reported. The damages to cars both there and at Packard Electric amounted to close to $200.

• Trumbull County deputies charged three Niles teenagers with delinquency following a fight that erupted at a Route 422 drive-in restaurant.

The youths, one 15 and the other two 16, were part of a group of about 30 teenagers who went to the Red Barn to eat after leaving the Golden Record, a Route 422 dance hall, deputies reported. Deputies quelled one fight at the dance, but when some 100 youths began congregating outside the building, another cruiser was dispatched.

Deputies dispersed the crowd, but 10 carloads then headed for the restaurant. The deputies ordered the Niles trio to leave the restaurant, which they did, only to return. Deputies made the arrests but had trouble getting the youths into the cruiser for the trip to the county jail.

One of the 16-year-olds jumped out of the cruiser and fled, but was taken into custody shortly thereafter. During the struggle to get the youths into the cruiser, Deputy Mike Delaquila’s trousers were torn and Deputy Roy Rufener’s hat was taken. The youths were released to the custody of their parents pending action.

25 years ago in 1992:

• A city official was nearly run over by the car he had just parked after a huge feed store truck slipped out of gear, crushed one car and pushed the city-owned car about six feet down West Main Street.

Service Director Mark Oljaca, 36, said he did not see it coming as he walked behind the car to go to Main Discount Drug to buy office supplies.

“The guy in the men’s store across the street let out a holler. I turned around just in time to jump up on the truck, but my leg got smacked.”

Oljaca said he “went flying . ..like a guy in the circus. I have to go back and thank that man. Otherwise, I would have been run over.”

Oljaca was treated at the hospital. Nothing was broken, but the city car sustained minor damage.

• A 26-year-old Warren man was treated at Trumbull Memorial Hospital after his fingertip was bitten off in a fight outside the Central Cafe.

The man told police he was in the East Market Street bar when someone threw a beer bottle that hit him in the back of the head. The victim then chased a suspect outside the bar and was trying to detain him when the suspect began to fight and bit off the victim’s fingertip.

10 years ago in 2007:

• A man was tackled to the ground after stealing a 3-foot-long submarine sandwich from a local bar and taking off down the road with it, according to a police report.

Police were called to a 1:40 a.m. fight in the parking lot of Sami Quick Stop on South State Street in Girard. Police said the man was yelling that his head hit the ground when he was taken down, a report stated. But a woman toting the sandwich explained that the man had just stolen the party sub from Wonder Bar at 100 W. Liberty St.

An agreement was eventually reached that the bar would not press charges against the man if he agreed to stay out of the business for the rest of the night and forget about being tackled.

Compiled from Tribune Chronicle archives by Emily Earnhart.

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