Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-04
Court Notes.

court NOGeSs
 In the City court Saturday morning V. E. Green, the sewing machine agent who quar- reled with his neighbor, Mrs. Robert Spen- cer, about whether door of a barn should be opened or closed, was fined $3 and costs and appealed. Mrs. Nichols paid her fine of S1 and costs.
 Samuel Simmons, the young man accused by the police of loaing on the Green with vicious women, was tried in the City court Saturday morning for vagrancy. Officer Ahearn said that the young man had been ''capper" for a former gambling house in Church street. This Simmons denied. He was sentenced to jail for ten days and ap- pealed.
 The cases of Charles Lines, Lawrence Hol- ton and John F. Hickey, the three young men arrested for burglarizing Peter A. Burks salo on in Forbes place last Monday night, came up in the City court Saturday. James P. Pigott defended them. MT. Burk testified that he had seen the young men around the place during Monday, and he recognized the various demijohns which Officer Higgins found in the grass in the rear of w. T. Fitch 6 Co.'S. establishment as his property. The cases were continued that Detective Brewer might De called as witness.
 After long arguments in the City court yesterday morning, Prosecutor Cable was al lowed to amend his complaint in the cases against Henry N. Palmer and Frank E. Owens, charged with cutting fire alarm under the city bylaws. Then Attorney Hamilton entered demurrer for the defend ants, which was overruled. His motion for continuance to Thursday granted.
 William L. Dade was before the City court on Saturday on charge of vagrancy He had formerly been sent to jail on similar charge and this time Judge Deming gave him sixty days.
 A nolle was entered in the case of Emory Whiting, who keeps an intelligence office at No. 4 Church street. He was charged with breach of the peace against Marie Dobson who did not appear in court.
 Charles H. Plumb was before the City court Saturday charged with an assault on Samuel Pewtress, of Fair Haven Plumb was discharged on the count for breach of the peace, and fined S10 for drunkenness. The cases of Valorous Green, Robert Spen- l cer and Sarah E. Spencer, partly tried two or three days ago in the CityScourt, were fur ther heard on Saturday. The accused were l charged with fighting at William J. Atwaters barn, about one hundred feet from Osborn street. Green was fined $5 and costs, and the Spencers were let off with S1 fine each and the costs for one were divided between them.
 E. Owen came up again in the City court Saturday. They charged with cutting a 1 fire alarm wire a few days ago. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Daley had brought | his complaint under the statute against cut 1 ting wires of telegraph companies, making the law point that New Haven was, for the purpose of the case, telegraph company. | When the case was in court the other day c. S. Hamilton, for the defence, asked that the accused be discharged, on the ground l that New Haven was not a telegraph company within the meaning of the | statute Mr. Dailey then asked to amend his complaint, so as to put in count under the city ordinances and bylaws. MT. Ham ilton said that MT. Dailey's dilemma was made clear from the fact that he did not know whether to enter a nolle on the first charge, under the statute. On this he (Mr. Hamilton) would ask discharge. The ac- cused could not be tried on the amended complaint until the other had been disposed of. As a matter of formality Attorney Ham l ilton filed demurrer, which was overruled While the cases went over until Tuesday, Judge Deming announced that the penalty in each case would be a fine of twenty dol l lars and costs.