1. By ADAM WHITE
Register Citizen Staff
TORRINGTON — A city man is being
held on a $500,000 bond for multiple
charges related to two armed robberies
in Wednesday’s early-morning hours.
Anthony Cascella, 41, of 247 South
Main St., was arrested and charged with
robbery, burglary and larceny for his
alleged role in a home invasion at the
Fenton House at 17 Prospect St, accord-
ing to a Torrington Police Department
press release. Cascella was also charged
with robbery and larceny for an alleged
armed hold-up, just hours later, at the
Patco Handy Stop at 189 East Main St.
Detective Bart Barown said all indica-
tions point to Cascella working alone in
both of the cases, adding that the victims
in each case reported only one person.
The McCall Foundation’s Fenton
House, a residential treatment program
home for men, reported a home invasion
to police at about 2:04 a.m., according to
the release. Police responded to the call
and learned that the suspect had entered
the dorm-type residence through an
unlocked door, confronted one of the
occupants with a knife, taken a small
sum of cash and a vehicle key
and fled on foot. No injuries
were reported.
Along with detectives, the
department’s German shepherd
canine officer Brodie respond-
ed to the house. Brodie
tracked the suspect for a short
distance and located the
stolen key, according to the
report, but the suspect was
not found.
At 5:04 a.m., the depart-
ment received a report of an
armed robbery in progress
at the Patco Handy Stop on
South Main Street. Officers
By KEVIN D. ROBERTS
Register Citizen Staff
TORRINGTON — Prepare to
be a victim.
Though the message may
seem overly pessimistic, that
is what the Torrington Police
Department wants its city res-
idents to do.
“If you plan to be a victim,
you will be that much closer
to surviving,” Detective Kevin
Tieman said during a home
invasion preparedness class
held with about 80 residents
in attendance at the City Hall
auditorium Wednesday night.
The class was held in
response to the brutal
Cheshire killings of last
month, in which two men,
including Steven Hayes, 44, of
Winsted, allegedly broke into
a home, killed a mother and
her two daughters and beat
their father.
Tieman said that by think-
ing about being a victim and
being prepared, residents can
increase their chances of sur-
By KEVIN D. ROBERTS
Register Citizen Staff
TORRINGTON — Democratic mayoral can-
didate Timothy Driscoll Jr. declared that he
is feeling well after a “little heart attack” and
that he is ready to challenge Mayor Ryan
Bingham for his job.
Driscoll had a stent, a tube that keeps pre-
viously blocked arteries open, surgically
implanted into his heart and has been out of
Waterbury Hospital since Saturday, he said
Wednesday during a press conference at
Rainbow Pizza Restaurant on the corner of
North Elm Street and Red Mountain Avenue.
Driscoll was hospitalized Aug. 7 after
reportedly suffering from heat exhaus-
tion while operating his outdoor hot
dog stand. Doctors later determined
that he had a heart attack.
Sitting down, and wearing a white
dress shirt with red St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital tie and
black pants, Driscoll told supporters
and media gathered on the deck of
the restaurant that he does get tired,
but that his doctors have given him
the green light in the election.
“That’s pretty much the extent of
the problem I had,” he said. “My
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WHAT DO ELVIS AND A LOCAL NUN HAVE IN COMMON?
By NICOLE D’ANDREA
Special to The Register Citizen
It was 30 years ago today that Elvis
Presley, the “King of Rock ’n’ Roll,” died.
Of all the people who knew him, few
have the insight of a 68-year-old nun who
has lived in a secluded convent in
Bethlehem, Conn., for more than four
decades.
That’s because, in the late 1950s, Mother
Dolores Hart was a rising Hollywood starlet
who locked lips on screen with Elvis in not
one movie, but two.
From behind the
wooden grid of her
convent at the Abbey
of Regina Laudis
recently, Hart, with her
eyes radiating like she
was still 17, recalled her
Hollywood stint with
Elvis and the path that
took her away from the
spotlight.
Hart met Elvis as a
teen when she was
thrown out of Mary Mount
College in California after
deciding to go for the part
as Susan Jessup in the
1957 film “Loving You.”
She had to miss her
final exam in speech and
drama to make the screen
test that would cast her
opposite Elvis.
Returning from the screen
test to her dormitory to col-
lect her things, Hart recalled
telling her friends of her for-
tune, “I was queen for a day.
They practically carried me on
their shoulders out the door. They were cheering me
on and they said, ‘Bring back a lock of his hair.’”
Hart met Elvis at the Paramount Studio. “I walked
into a room to meet him and he jumped to his feet. He
was very capable of manners and he knew what to do
and very few people in that town do. He came over and
took my hand and greeted me,” she said, adding that
only Elvis and Gary Cooper called her “Miss Dolores”
during her time in Hollywood.
“If there was any justice, Elvis would be alive and
every Elvis impersonator would be dead. But that’s not
very kind,” she said.
The daughter of Bert Hicks, a Hollywood actor, Hart
said she wanted nothing more than to be an actress. Her
parents both left home to pursue her father’s career on
screen and Hart was reared by her grandparents. She said
Torrington Democratic
mayoral hopeful Timothy
Driscoll Jr. discusses his
campaign platform during a
press conference Wednesday
at Rainbow Pizza Restaurant
on North Elm Street.
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Ex-Hollywood
starlet recalls
icon 30 years
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THE KING AND I
In the combination photo at left, Dolores Hart and Elvis Presley are
shown in scenes from the 1957 film “Loving You.” Above right, Hart is
shown today as a nun in Bethlehem.
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Patco Handy Stop at 189 East Main St.,
which was robbed early Wednesday, is
shown later in the day.
Mayoral challenger affirms
drive after ‘little heart attack’
Man charged
after robberies
Cops offer
protection
advice
“I walked into
a room to meet
him and he
jumped to his
feet. He was
very capable of
manners and
he knew what
to do and very
few people in
that town do.
He came over
and took my
hand and
greeted me.”
MOTHER DOLORES
HART, on her
meeting with Elvis
Presley at Paramount
Studio in California in
1957 while working on
the film “Loving You”
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