Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-07
.auurnal alto Oourier,
Friday Morning, July z. 1SS:
The Court Record.
Superior Court-Crir1inaI Side-.y ud z

Superior Court-CrilninaI Side-.yu udge
 Andrews.
 This court came in yesterday morning at 10 o'clock
 The Clune- -Winson rape case resumed, quite large number of spectators being present.
 The first witness yesterday morning was Detective Philip Reilly He testified that shortly after the alleged assault upon Mrs. 1 Winson by Clune the woman was brought face to face with eight or ten men in the could pick out the young man that she claimed outraged her. She at once walked over to young Clune and said, ''That is the man." The officer said he aided in selecting the that made up the eight ten and he endeavored to get young men of about the age and size of Clune
 Mary A. Flynn, aged about 14, who lived at 22 Edwards street on February last, tes- tifed that on the evening of that day she went up State street till she came to Edwards street. Going up near Rourke's saloon cor ner of Bishop and State streets. she met man who staggered. He ran after the wit ness until she reached the corner of State and Edward streets, when she met Mr. Wright, and the latter accompanied her home. She reached there at five ten minutes to nine. She did not notice her pursuer closely. He ! had his overcoat buttoned closely about his neck.
 1 Charles H. Wardell testified that on Febru- \ ary last he lived on Beach street, this city. l About at night he started from the City Market to go to his fathers house on Edward 1 street, and about S:30 he saw Clune leaning \ against the corner of the building in which ! was Rourke's saloon, corner of State and I Bishop streets, acting as if very drunk. | Shortly after 9 the witness left his father s house to go to his home on Beach street, and he again saw Clune standing by the grocery ! store at the corner of State and Wallace I streets. Clune then appeared more sober. ! On the examination the witness said ! when he first saw Clune he took him for s ! young acquaintance, Arthur Daley, and stop | ped and looked to make sure.
 ! Kate T. Garvey between eight and nine ! years of age. bright little Hamilton street i girl, who said she went to the Sisters school \ and would go down to the lake of fire if she l told lie, next called, and, despite her statement that she did not know what taking | an oath in court meant, was allowed by Judge
 Andrews to testify, the defense filing an ob- \ jection, which, under the new statute, made it necessary that all questions and answers, | as we'll as the objection to her being sworn, ! be written down and certified to by the court.
 The witness testified that the prisoner, Thom ! as Clune, lived near her house, 1SO Hamilton \ street, and she knew him we'll She saw him about 7:3O or TAO one snowy Saturday night
 last winter, near Mir. Rowley's saloon, Ham
 ilton street. Clune put his hand over the
 child's mouth, and when she tried to get on
 the steps of the saloon he pulled hef back by
 the hair. The witness then ''hollered," anc ! Clune let her go. There nothing said by \ him. and no one else about. He was ! drunk. The witness was frightened, and fin \ ally ran into the saloon. She told her moth \ CT that same night.
 At 2 o'clock in the afternoon George Yard
 ley was called and testified that on February ! 4th last he lived Eagle street, off Nast ! street, and that Joseph Wilkes and his wifi \ were at his house on the evening of tha ! day, Wilkes being very drunk. Wilkes wal
 an elderly, large-built man, with one eye ! Mir. Pickett explained that ths object of tn
 testimony was to show that there re-, was n i similarity in appearance between Wilkes ant I Clune, and therefore that the defence coult ! not confound the two. That night Wilke
 lost his hat in the snow. He came iron ! Hartford, was an old English friend of th 1 witness, and where he was now Yardle ! could not say.
 Mir. Case cross-examined with evident in
 tent to impress the jury that Wilkes migh l have been the man that assaulted Mrs. Win son, and that in many particulars he an < swersd the description Mrs Winson gave o her assailant. It transpired that MT. Winso was the one that told Yardley that neigh
 bor had picked up Wilkes hat, whereupo the witness got it and gave it to his friend. Mr. Winson was recalled to testify that
 saw Wilkes and Yardley together last fall an
 that the night of the outrage he saw Wilke lying in the snow, intoxicated, on Mas
 street, when he (Winson) went oat to get { doctor for his wife.
 Policeman Joseph F. Stewart testified tha
 his beat took in Nash street, that he kne1
 Mrs. Winson, and saw her on the evening C ! February last-a very bad night so far 8 \ the weather was concerned. He saw her be I tween 9:3O and 10 o'clock. She was yer
 much excited, and said she had been assault
 ed. She gave the officer description of he
 assailant, and he looked through number c | saloons for him but did not find him. The
 the witness reported at the police office, an
 three other policemen were sent out to hel
 him. Shortly after midnight Clune was a I rested at his hc2se in Hamilton street.
 In addition to tha rape case the followin r cases were disposed of: M. V. Provost, ol } structing sidewalk in Meriden, nolled on pa, 6 1 ment of $13 James $. Jackson, keeping . ! gaming house in New Haven, nolled. Jamt B, Beers, same offense, nolled on payment !, $SO9O. Michael and Thomas Cody, resis
 ance to an officer in this city, nolled,
 Court adjourned until this morning at l' o'clock.