The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-01-21


JANUARY rEaM-aoDDARD, j, PRESIDING.
TUEspAY.-State v. Richard O'ConneH and Chas.
O'Neil. O'Connell sentenced his plea OF gull
ty to II months in County Jail.
State v. Jefers, previously reported. LETTERS had
served the State in blacksmthing at Thomaston two
years and not ten as the types made it. He goes
seven years more to complete lis trade.
WEDNEsDAY.-State " Winnifred Cunningham.
Indictment for larceny of wearing apparel Of Mary
E. Stevens and Elizabeth A. Locke. from clothes line
Lincoln street. the 2Oth of November last. The
article. were found by the officers.
Observation-Disclosures no money to get wit
nesses; her husband might have stolen them; other
parties put them there they there to be wash
ed; they were hers; reasonable doubt, &c. &c. Yer
dict guilty.
Webb. Frank
State v. Winnifred Cunningham. Receiving stolen
goods, property Of Charles W. Thompson. Lizzie
Godfrey testified that she IL years old; she met
Mrs. Cunningham going home from her work after
dark, her little daughter, Kate Cunningham, with
her: that Mrs. Cunningham told her she saw this
table cloth on line just back and said If I would
get it she would give 20 cents for it; she told
where the house was Kate Cunningham went with
me; took the table cloth and some other things
from the line where this lady MRS. Thompson) lives
anti and she told me good girl to get 30 many
Clothes and gave me rs cents; her daughter was
when she told this; after she was arrest
ed Kate Cunningham and went with the officer
and showed him where we took the goods Verdict
guilty.
Webb. Frank.
After these verdicts against Winnifred, her coun-
sci thought best to cry peccavi and advised her to
plead guilty on the rest, which she did, and then
commenced to wall aloud before the court.
There Were ten indictments against her. Three
verdicts of guilty were rendere and she plead guilty
on the remaining seven. The case was continued
till the afternoon session for sentence.
State ". Charles Smith alias Charles Rowe In
dictment for larceny OF ladies' wearing apparel from
the clothes line OF Albion G. Dean. Plea guilty
Smiths counsel urged in mitigation of sentence
first offence, service in the army a long imprison-
ment awaiting trial tsince Aug. 6thl, more matter
OF mischief than thievish disposition On being
questioned by the Judge, prisoner answered that he
was 80 years of age and had no means He had re-
spectacle. "well-to-do'' parents in Connecticut.
whom he had not advised OF his situation; was in
toxcated at the time. Sentence. 6 months in Coun-
ty Jail.
Webb. Haskell.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
called up for sentence. .a..
Mr.. Frank plead her declining years, wort less
drunken husband, and young children to support,
and the want of means to procure witnesses.
The County Attorney replied, this woman has been
three times put upon her trial, and convicted.
has followed with plea guilty upon seven other in
dtctuents; the pretext upon her part that she could
have obtained witnesses to tell story that would
exculpate her is almost boast that she could get
somebody to testify to what not true and contra
dict her own plea eff guilty. 1t is In evidence that
she is training her little child and the child OF her
neghbor for stealing. She has three times testified
in her own behalf against evidence enough to con-
vtct her of perjury in these cases; II she has any
children let her be removed where her malign infu-
ence will not effect them.
The Court prefaced sentence by remarking that the
County Attorney had called his attention to the Stat
ute providing that where three dist net arcenies are
proved against the prisoner at the same term Of
court he shall be deemed a common and notorious
thief, and shall be punished by not less than tour
years imprisonment. In this case the defendant has
been convicted of two larcsnies by verdict and ak
others by plea of guilty. to say nothing of the two
convictions for receiving stolen goods. The woman
is in the decline of life, has family, and has not
only been guilty of larceny but has acted the part of
a corruption of the youth.
The Clerk announced the sentence, that having
been convicted under indictments for larceny EIGHT
in number, the defendant was adjudged common
and notorious thief and sentenced to five wears in
the State Parison.
Webb. Frank
State " Martin Morrisey. Knocking down min
lister colored in the streets without provocation De
fendant plead guilty, and on being examined by the
Judge said he was drunk; did not know what he was
about; that his shoulder hit the man and knocked
him down. Perhaps his prevaricating plea did not
mitigate his sentence, nine months in the County
Jail.
State v. Isaac W. Bowen. For larceny of s110
from George H. Brown of Bridgton. Prisoner said
he had been one year In Stae Prison for another
mans affair; came out in 1866. This is his own at
tair. Sentence, five years.
State v. Frank F. Davis. Larceny of clothing
Plea guilty. The prisoner said hope you will show
me some lenity; it is the first time have been be-
fore a court; have been at work at harness making
ever since was II years old; am rs now; have an
aged mother to support; inebriated at the time
Sentence, months in the County jail.
State v. Joseph Andrews. For assault on Cyrus j.