Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-11
THE COURT RECORD.
Court of Common Pleas-Judge Dem-
 ing.


 This court and jury were engaged yester- day in hearing the case of A. H. Moulton ct ux. vs. John Erbsen. It is an appeal from Justice Ullman's decision and is an action to recover about $16 for rent of property on Dwight street. The case was given to the jury about o'clock and after being ont about thirty minutes they returned with verdict for the defendant to recover his costs.
 The jury were then empannelled in another petty case in which John A. Frazier seeks to recover small balance due on a note from Mary Mckenzie. Hayes & Moulton appeared for the plaintiff in both of these cases and Hamilton for the defendant.
 After the jury had been called court ad- iourned until this morning at 10 o'clock. Court of Common Pleas-Judge Sud-
 Judge Studley held court yesterday la Clerk Benton's office and heard the Meriden case of Michael Higgins vs Edward Morri- son. in which small amount is involved. City Court Criminal Side-Judges
 Dem1ng and Pickett.
 December 1O.-Frederick Oulett, breach of the peace against Adelferd Fabric, continued to December H. George Mclaughlin, theft, December 2, 30 days in jail; Frank Hugo, violation of the liquor law, $40 and costs; Michael Stafford, violation of the Hq- uor law, discharged; George Mclaughlin, burglary, bound over to the Supe, rior court; Patrick Mccarthy. theft, $7 and costs; Simon Dillon, theft, judgment sus- pended; Michael Dillon, theft, discharged; Thomas Jordan, breach of the peace against Thomas Landley, $1 and costs; James Rob- erts, lascivious carriage, $5 and costs; George De Yarmand, lascivious carriage, $5 and costs; Mary An Ann dooo D4olsn' .nL lasoivloIs G"1 ligan, theft, December II; Arthur N. Thorpe, violation of city ordinances, continued to Dec. 12 James Mccarthy, talk ing and using horse without permission, $5 and costs; James McAuliffe, breach of the peace against Mary Ann McAuliffe, contin- ued for. 30 days; Samuel Davidson, burglary Oct 2, continued until Dec. il; Thomas Langley, capias Dec 10, $3.
 Court Notes.
 The committee hearing in the Jackson street case of the city of New Haven vs. the N Y, N H. & H. R. R. Co.,, which was to have come off yesterday before Judge Morris in the bar library. was continued one week, the pleadings not being finished.
 In the City court yesterday morning George Mclaughlin, who was tried on We'd nesday on charge of burglarizing Samuel Slootsky's store on Grand street on Septem Der 10, was bound over to the Superior court under $500 bonds.
 Yesterday morning in the City court At torney Zacher demurred to the complaint against Frank Hugo for selling liquor with out license at his hotel on Farren avenue in the Annex. The demurrer was overruled and Hugo was fined $40 and costs An ap- peal was taken under $250 bonds.
 James Mccarthy, the young chap who took Dr. l.. M Gilbert's team without leave from Mill River street on Wednesday night, was fined ss and s~t- i'm t1,s iaSr <efs-t s--sf~-I's'
 Simon Dillon, Patrick Mccarthy and Mi chael Dunn, the two former of Danbury and the latter of this city, were in the City court yesterday morning, charged with stealing an overcoat from Robert Schillinger in Clark's State street billiard room last Tuesday even ing It was claimed that McCarthy stole the coat and that Dunn and Dillon assisted Me Carthy was fined $7 and costs, while judg ment was suspended in Dillon's case and Dunn was discharged.
 In the case of Michael Stafford, charged with violation of the liquor law, which came up by continuation in the City court yesterday morning, Judge Deming said that on reflection he had reached the conclusion that some of the evidence he admitted at the trial was inadmissible. Attorney Walter Pond, who defended Stafford, asked for his clients discharge, and it was granted.
 The children of John McGuinness, who have been sadly neglected by their father and the woman he has hired to care for them, were yesterday sent to the Tyler City Home by Judge Deming.
 Am Architects Home Made Violin.
 James J. Mccarthy, the well known archi- tect of New Britain, is a violinist of more than ordinary ability, and he possesses violin which is worthy of public mention. MT. Mccarthy made it himself and from wood which formed part of the frieze of the representatives, chamber of the old State House. He played it first in public at the wooden wedding of MT. and Mrs. R. A. O'Gorman, who then resided on Grand street in Hartford, in 1879. The tone of the in strument surprised everybody who heard it. At this time it was unpainted and unvar- nished and everyone could see it was of home manufacture. It has been pronounced by experts to be the closest imitation of genuine Cremona violin ever made ill this country, and it's construction is said to have involved marvellous mechanical skill.-Hart