Litchfield enquirer., 1878-09-26
Superior Court.
CRIMINAL TRIALS.

Milton, in this town came to a suddel
 end on an objection taken to evidenc
 by counsel forthe prisoner The State, havin,
 proved one theft of small quantity of hay
 offered evidence to prove that a large quantit,
 had been from time to time distracted iron
 the same mow, until enough had been taken ii
 all to constitute the crime of grand larceny
 The prisoners counsel objected to this evidence
 and claimed that every distinct taking was
 distinct offence, and must be charged in a sep
 arate count. The court sustained the objection
 whereupon the Atty for the State entered s
 ruling of the court, inasmuch as the hay
 proved to have been taken on the day charged
 in the information was not of the valve of sev. en dollars, the Superior Court had no jurisdic. tien. Huntington and Hollister for State Graves for prisoner.
 State vs. Wm. E. Wood was a prosecution for burglary, breaking the barn of Luther Eat on, of Torrington, and stealing meal, parts of harness, and nails therefrom. The evidence is entirely circumstantial. The principal in the burglary was one May, since run away. The afternoon before the burglary. Wood was seen riding with May in Winchester, some five miles from Eaton's on a blackboard, no two wheels of which are alike The stolen property was found at Mays, where it was traced by the peculiar track of this vehicle, The tracks of two men were discovered about the barn where the burglary was committed, and Wood was seen the next morning, turk ing about the premises of May where the pro- perty was found Wood also claimed to have bought horse-collar which was part of the stolen property, the. night before. Woods character for honesty was thoroughly sustain ed by witnesses from New Hartford, where he | resides. The jury brought the prisoner in guilty. The probability is that he was led in- to committing the crime by May who is an old offender Huntington for State Hollister for prisoner.
 State vs. Michael O Mora for an assault with intent to kill, upon Daniel Quinn at the Naugatuck Bridge in Welcottville. The evil dence showed that O'Mara, being somewhat intoxicated, came up to party sitting on the steps of Agard's store. Here he was a good deal excited by provoking language of Quinn who called him ''Steam," and other nick names. O.Mara told him to go away and let him alone. This happened two or three times At last OMara started across the bridge for home. Quinn and one Leary followed him and, as OMara swore, Quinn told him he had a razor, and dared him to pull out his knife A scufie ensued on the bridge in which O'Mara stabbed Quinn three times, cutting op- en his right cheek and severing one of the art cries in his arm. He finally got Quinn down, and would probably have killed him but for the interference of Leary. It appears that this bridge has been a place where rowdioO ha-o been in the habit of congregating, for year or two past, practically on Sunday evenings, quarreling among themselves and insulting passers-by. The annoyances at this place, were the occasion of the enactment of the stingent law against street loiterers passed by our last legislature The jury found the prison CT guilty. Huntington for State; Hollister and Kilbourn for prisoner.
 State vs. Joseph D, Adams, of Goshen, for his assaulting one Shevalier, at the house of the latter in Goshen. Adams lives in the same house. On the night of the sixth of April last, as Adams swere, he had cooked some supper and gave part of it to Shevalier, an old man 78 years old, who had been subject to epileptic fits. About eight in the evening, as Adams awnra, She~olior complained of being faint. and he, Adams, went out of the room for old man lying on the floor upon his left side near the stove, with his right ear injured and bloody. He says he gave him the camphor and put him to bed. Early in the morning Shevalier went to the house of his son-in-law Cotterel, about % rods away, where he staid till his death, which took place about the mid dle of June. On the 9th of April, Dr. North was sent for to visit Shevalier in fit, and found him insensible, with his ear much swol- len. CotterePs wife swore that Shevalier's left arm and left side were black and blue when he came to their house, and that they remained so till his death. Gopher Beach swore that there were black and blue sports on the body when he laid it out for burial; and that there was the print of mans boot-heel in the back. At the trial before the justice Shevalier swore that Adams assaulted and beat him, but that evi- dence was not offered before the Superior Court. The prisoner claimed that whatever injury Shevalier sustained, was caused by his falling in fit. Josephine Cotterel swore that Adams told her on the evening of the 9th that ''he would fix the old mans dry bones for him." and Willis Robinson testified that Adams said few days after Shevalier was hurt at Hallock's hotel in Norfolk in pre- sence of Hallock, that 'Shevalier had been laid out and he was going down to lay out Cothrel," but Hallock remembered no such conversation In his presence. Adams is seventy years old, a native of Massachusetts, and has lived in this county forty-two years. His character for peaceableness was sustained by eleven wit nesses who all swore that he was in the habit of drinking, and very noisy when drunk, but not dangerous. The jury acquitted the pris- oner. Huntington for State; Kilbourn and Hollister for prisoner.
 Last week Malachi Boyle pleaded guilty to an assault in Canaan, and was fined seven dol lars. John Story also pleaded guilty to break ing house Tn the daytime in Thomaston and was sentenced to one years imprisonment in jail
 This weeks business began with trial of State vs. Ann Bys7ses for an assault upon Mrs. Car rol at Winsted. The prisoner had been sewing for Carol, and went to her house to demand pay. The latter said that the work was not we'll done, that the price asked was too high, and refused payment. She then turned the prisoners out of doors after calling her hard names, and scratching her face. The prisoner upset pail of water over the piazza. Mrs. Carol came out, and the parties threw stones at each other. The jury acquitted the prisoner. Huntington and Fenn for the prosecution: