Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1884-10-11
THE COURT RECORD.
Superior Court Civil side Judge


Superior Court e. Civil side Judge
At bar meeting in this court yesterday
afternoon the following assignments were
made:
vs. CARL; DeGarmo VS.. Gum; Aims, guar
dian, VS.. Orange (motion to correct plead
ings); State VS.. Ousatonic Water company
(motion); Holt vs.. Dickerman nisD; State
We. New Haven and West Haven railroad
(motion); Wander VS.. Wander; Weston VS..
Weston; Mallory VS.. Mallory.
Wednesday, October 15.-Hale VS.. Whit
ing; Lyon vs. Quinnipiac Mining company
Andrews VS.. Latham.
Thursday, October 16.-State VS.. Ousa-
tonic Water company; Goodrich vs.. Fowler;
Griswold VS.. Griswold.
Friday, October 17-McCarthy vs.. Nichols
(nisi); Nichols VS.. Mccarthy (nisi)
Wednesday, October 22.-Taylor vs. Brooks
& Scott; Connecticut Savings bank VS..
Dinner.
Thursday, October 2a-smith VS.. McKeon
& Todd (nisi).
Tuesday, October 28-Trustees Old Aims
house Us. Smith.
Wednesday, October 29-Delafeld VS..
Hotchkiss.
Wednesday, November aims appeal
Especially; Bradley VS.. Bradley; Goodyear vs..
Doolitt1e.
These assignments were made in the
Court of Common Pleas, in the afternoon:
Tuesday, October 14-Montgomery VS..
Mead
Wednesday, October 15-Killam vssDauth
Especially; Mann VS.. Faughnan.
Friday, October 16-Warner vs. Wilson
~ Cd o6 until TnYt Tnna0av at
2:30 p. IN.
Superior Court-Cr1m1naI Side-Judse
Stoddard.
This court came in yesterday morning at
10 o'clock.
In the cases of William Pendleton and Nell
son Ellis, the two young men who were tried
Thursday charged with making an outra-
geous assault early in August upon Miss Pau
line Silliman, colored women who was then
employed as domestic in a Branford sum-
mer hotel, and whose parents reside in this
city, the courts charge was rather in favor
of the prisoners. He reminded the jury of
the fact that Pendleton was on the box dur
ing the hack ride of the girl from the upper
part of the village to the place
where she worked, that although there
were houses not very far apart along the road
driven over, no one heard any outeries from
the young woman, and that on arriving home
she did not Immediately accuse the prisoners
of the crime for which they were arrested.
That Ellis attempted improper liberties with
Miss Sil1iman during the time they were in
the hack together and that he used actual
violence towards her were the facts which
the court thought proven beyond a doub t.
Pendleton's completely in the matter and
whether Ellis actions were such as to consti-
tute the more serious crime charged against
him were matters for the jury to decide upon.
After celebrating about half an hour the
jury returned a verdict acquitting both
prisoners on the count for felonious assault.
They found Ellis guilty of assault and bat
terry, hewever, and he was sentenced to one
year in the county jail. Pendleton was dis
charged.
At the conclusion of the Branford cases
Joseph Fortunate, an italian, was placed on
trial for passing counterfeit silver dollars in
Meriden, September 10. Christopher Ficco,
fellow countryman of Fortunatto's, was ar
rested with him and will have to answer to
the same charge. When apprehended For
tunatto had upon his person twenty of the
bogus dollars and the same number of coun-
terfeit half dollar silver pieces. The evil
dence showed that the men had been getting
rid of the bogus coin in other places than
Meriden. DR.. Roberts, of Waterbury, testi-
fed that the accused gave him a dollar in
payment for five cents worth of snuff one
day in the early part of September. After
they had gone he weighed the coin and
found it forty or fifty grains short
of the standard. The bogus dollar
was shown to the jury, along with a
genuine coin of the same denomination.
Several jurymen rang down the coins on the
table in front of them to compare their quail
ty, and appeared to be fully satisfied of the
bogus character of the piece which the wit
ness said he had received from the accused.
A number of Meriden parties, who had given
change fer worthless dollars given them by
Fortunate and his companion, also testif-
ed to the transactions and produced the spu-
rious pieces.
The case Of Louis Bender, charged with an
outrageous assault upon Catherine Sullivan,
an inmate of the almshouse, on the night of
September -, was assigned for trial yester-
day, but on account of the press of other bust
ness it went over. Miss Sullivan was attacked
on a dark street while returning to the aims
house, and had her clothing badly torn be-
fore escaping from the assailant She claims
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