Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-14
THE COURT RECORD.
Superior Court-Criminal Side-Judge
 Granger.


 This court came in at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Judge Granger on the bench. In the case of William Johnson, the al | legged murderer, H. F. Hall, of Wallingford, was assigned as additional counsel and an | order was made, the accused being poor, to | have witnesses for the defense summoned at the cost of the State.
 1 Prisoners were put to plead as follows: l Rowland Fowler, tramp, at Derby, October 1 27. J. P Thompson assigned as counsel Plea, guilty. He stole coat. Sentence, eight months in State prison.
 l George Howarth, age twenty-one, assault on Amos J. Brown in Milford Plea, guilty. Gum. of Milford for defense. Brown is an officer and the assault was made in attempt ing to rescue a prisoner. Sentence, SIX l months in jail.
 John Ryan, theft of a satchel from Theresa 1 Bretzfelder in New Haven few weeks ago. 1 Plea, guilty. There was another information of stealing from Miss Champion, of Tor l rington This was nolled. Both ofenses | were committed the same day. He snatched the handbags from the ladies on the street. The prisoner, when asked his business, said: T do a little robbing." Sentenced to two years in State prison.
 Bernard McGarty, theft of .85 from the person of Patrick McCoghlan in New Haven, November 12 Hotchkiss assigned as coun- sel. Plea, not guilty.
 Charles Kuntzleman, aged nineteen, theft from L. Harrison Hall in Meriden, November 23 Plea, guilty. He belongs in New Lon- don and is of decent family. He has been prosecuted for forgery in Branford, but the case was nolled. The goods stolen at the time of this last offense were worth $50. Sen tence, one year in the county jail
 John Gallagher, burglary at John Hugo's 1a1r J. Fox. Plea, not guilty.
 John Gallagher, burglary at the store of John Murphy in New Haven, November 2S. Plea, guilty The other case was nolled. He had just got out of State prison when the last crime was committed. Sentence, years in State prison.
 John Crowley, theft, nolle.
 Francis Donati, not put to plead.
 Frank Webb, burglary at Meriden Whit ing assigned as counsel. Plea not guilty.
 Margaret A. Robinson; vagrancy at Wal lingford, December 9, and also a tramp. Kleiner assigned as counsel Plea, not guilty.
 Edward Clark, tramp, Guilford. Shanley assigned as counsel Plea, not guilty.
 Edward J. Courtney, aged 19, and Will liam M. Jennings, in New Haven, burglary at the store of M. Matthias. Pickett assigned as counsel for Jennings. Plea, not guilty for l both
 | Thomas Murray and Daniel Sullivan from Wallingford, defrauding railroad train. The papers could not be found and MT. Doolittle dismissed them.
 Charles Wilson, burglary from Alonzo H. Stoves in Southbury Plead guilty. Has 1 been in jail for burglary before. States At torney Doolittie said Wilson was bad man. When arrested he had lot of money stolen in Litchfield. Sentence. two years in State prison.
 James Smith, breach of peace January 4th
 
 | woman unknown. Plea not guilty. Owen McMullen age IS, breach of peace | October 18th at New Haven and assaulting lsecond count) Annie Martin. Permitted to go by the State attorney, he having Eeen in prison three months on his appeal.
 Francis McBryan, theft from Albert O. Norton, New Haven, November 22d, of clothes worth SIP Fox assigned as counsel. Plea, 1 not guilty.
 Thomas Brown, burglary at the store of J. and George H. Smith, New Haven, Jan uary 9th. First pleaded not guilty and then changed his plea Sentenced to three months in the county jail.
 | Henry Smith, assault on Louise Gehan, a teacher of French, November 20 in New | Haven and stealing purse with small sum of money Plea, not guilty and then guilty. Sentence, two years in State prison. l Charles Hull, charged with theft at the house of Joel Allen in Branford on Novem- Der 15, pleaded guilty. Attorney Doolittle said Hull was thoroughly bad man, the | terror of the neighborhood. His practice was to go out and forage whatever he could lay his hands upon. Branford people sent out of town to get justice to try him. Peo- pie there were all afraid of him.
 Lawyer Andrews said in his behalf that he had no idea Branford people were afraid of him. He admitted that he had been in | State prison before.
 Judge Granger thought that under the cir l at | on for two years.
 | Henry Nichols, aged 15, charged with as- saulting Della Jackson, aged 8 years, occu- pied the attention of the jury. Lawyer | Bush was appointed guardian of Nichols. l He pleaded not guilty.
 The Jackson girl is of a colored family, living at 166 Henry street. She testified | that Nichols lived near her parents house | in Hamburg" last September, when the as- | sault was committed. She went into his house after water. He asked her if she l wanted some peaches. He then attempted | to outrage her. No one was in the house. On the cross-examination witness testified | that when she came out of the house after the | assault she had two peaches and ate one and l gave the other to her aunt. She then sat l down under the trees with her aunt and the boy and did not tell anybody about it until night, when she told her mother. She did not cry at all. Lawyer Bush asked her con l corning her testimony in the Police court. l Mary Jane Jackson, the girls mother, tes- l tifed that she examined her daughters under l clothing when she came home and found | blood on it. The child's back has been | troubling her since.
 Ruth Waterford, Mrs. Jackson's sister, | testified that she had called her niece, after | she had gone into the house, three times, but | had received no answer. Dr. Stetson's tes | timony was corroborative of Mrs. Jackson's. | He thought that the evidences were that the 1 girl had been outraged.
 Watson A. Goodyear, civil mining en- gineer, was the first witness for the defence. At Lawyer Bush's question in regard to the reputation of young Nichols, Attorney Doc little objected, saying tiiat his reputation for chastity was all that was involved At this discussion the boy began to cry. Harvey NJ. filling said the boys reputation was good. He had known the boy for fifteen years. At torney Doolittle said 70, I don't want to question this expert on the chastity of 15- year-old boys, as he says he is." Michael O'ConnelI, Mary Dennison Mrs. Ida Hill and Mrs. Mary Gilfoy, residents of Cherry Ann street and vicinity, testified as to the boys good character.
 The court adjourned until 10 o'clock this morning.
 Court Or Common PIeas-Judge Tor
 rance.
 In this court the case of Irwin vs. Lynch was heard yesterday. It is suit brought by c. Horace Lynch to recover S100 for mastiff dog which she is alleged to have poisoned The story of the case was as follows: A friend of Miss Irwin's persuaded her last spring to go into the yard where the mastiff was secured by chain. The friend said that the dog was perfectly docile and harm less and this encouraged Miss Irwin to pet him. She was rewarded by being bitten by the animal in the face and arm. She imme- diately visited the police office and demanded that the dog be killed. When this request was refused, she threatened to take the mat ter into her own hand. Soon afterwards the dog was found to be poisoned. The case will be continued to-day. City Court Criminal Side Judge
 StudIey. Catherine Sullivan, injuring police build | ing, $20 fine and $6. IS costs; Bernard Moon l ey and Bernard McDonough, breach of the | peace, $7 fine and $6.18 costs; Julius Stein, | swindllng Butler & Tyler, months in jail | and S27.66 costs; same, swindling Joseph | Goebel, months and $27 66; George De Yarmond, breach of peace against Richard ] Kolhof, judgment suspended; John Con roud, vagrancy, 30 days in jail and $539 costs Mary A. Frazer and Mary Frazer, breach of the peace against each other, $1 I