Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-18
The Court Record.
Superior COurt---Cr1m1nal SIde--JudGs
 Sanford.


 Superior COurt---crIminal sfde--JudRs
 This court came in yesterday morning at 10 o'clock
 1 Edward O'Brien pleaded guilty to an as-
 sault upon David Kelly at WalIingford last October, and was fined $S and costs, the
 same penalty that was inflicted in the lower court.
 State Attorney Doolittle then concluded his argument in the case against Daniel E. Jones, of Hartford, charged with neglecting to support his enid. The jury brought in
 verdict of guilty and the accused, aside from paj ing the costs of the court, was compelled to give a bond of $500 to assure his compH- ance with the order of the court to support the child. The penalty, in case the accused failed to give satisfactory bond for the support of the child, was fixed at sixty days jail imprisonment at hard labor.
 The jury were then dismissed for the term. They have been in session eleven days and have heard eleven cases. In nine instances they brought in verdicts of guilty, one they discharged and on one occasion the prisoner changed his plea to guilty before the trial
 was concluded
 In the afternoon Lena Jackson, charged with the theft of money and jewelry from Selectman Julius Tyler, was brought into court 8 bench warrant. She pleaded guilty and told Judge Sanford that it was lIquor that led her to commit the deed. She begged for clemency on account of her little boy, and was sentenced to one year imprison- nSnt in the county jail.
 George Schenck, although he pleaded guilty in the City court yesterday morning to charge of burglary at the store of George Sackett, January 15, refused to so plead in the Superior court in the afternoon, 1 and he was remanded back to jail. Subse- quentIy he thought better of it, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to one year ln the l State prison.
 Bonds were called and forfeited in these
 cases: Mrs James Tousley, injury to private 1 building, bond $1OO, John Henry surety;
 Thomas Kelly, violation of Sunday law, bond 1 $15O, F. s Porter surety; John McCarthy, I assault and battery, bond fifty dollars, Michael l Fleming surety; John J. Conway, violation l Sunday law, bond S20O, William H. Hull surety; John Gro wley, assault and battery 1 and surety of the peace, bond $500, Mary J. l Brennan; James J. Herman, breach of the | peace, bond $1O0, Patrick Herman surety. ss l Samuel Jackson, colored, pleaded guilty to | 8 third offence of theft and was sentenced to l State prison for one year.
 The case of embezzlement against ex-Cap ! term.
 | Court adjourned without day. 1 Superior COurt-Civil Side-Judge Stod- dard.
 | This court resumed yesterday morning at 1 10 o'clock.
 The case of Merwin Ts. Dewell occupied the ] attention of the court most of the day. | In the afternoon w. K. Townsend prayed out writ of habeas corpus for the release l from the St. Francis Orphan asylum of Rosa
 McNamara, the fve-year- old daughter of 1 Bridget McNamara, of Hartford. Mrs. Me Namara says that she put the little girl to ! board at the Catholic orphan asylum in Hart ford, and recently went there to take her 1 away When the managers learned that she l intended to place the child in 8 Protestant
 family they refused to give her back to the
 costody of the mother and directly after | wards sent her to the St. Francis asylum in
 this city. There tho mother also
 made application for the child, but | received the same apswer as that ! given her in Hartford. Determined to secure
 her daughter she procured counsel, who l proceeded to bring the hsbeas corpus suit. 1 Mrs. McNamara is widow. The case is
 made returnable before Judge Stoddard in
 the Superior court at 1O:3O o'clock to day, to
 which hour the court adjourned.
 Court of Common PEeAs-Judge Torrance This court came in yesterday morning al
 ten o'clock.
 The court was engaged during the day ir
 hearing the case of Fitzgerald vs. Coleman.
 It is suit brought to recover for labor per.
 formed on 8 farm. The defendant claims
 that he has paid plaintiff by board furnished
 and money to pay his passage to this coun,