Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-30
rHEoounr RECORD.
city Court = Criminal Side - Jud

city Court = Criminal Side = Judge
 DemIng.
 Selling goods without icense-Nathan- iel K. Davidyan, judgment suspended.
 Keeping house of assignation-William P.Quinn, discharged; Edward Riker, ,$25 fine, $9.82 costs; appealed.
 Frequentlng house of assignation- George 0. Wright, Mary Green, Alice Mccarthy, Mary E. Dewes and Mary Ann Mcclure, each $9 fine and $7.35 costs; appealed.
 Neglect to support family-R. T. Murphy, $5.39 costs, 60 days.
 Violation of Sunday liquor 1aw-Frank McHugh, continued to January 4; Thomas F. Shay, continued to December 30.
 Michael Prendergast, slime, $e. IS costs.
 Resisting oficer-William Burns, judg ment suspended.
 SEQUEL OF POLICE RAIDS.
 Edgar Riker, proprietor of an alleged house of assignation on State street, was fined $25 and costs in the City court yesterday morn- ing by Judge Deming. He appealed in $150 bonds furnished by William H. Futile, the State street fruit dealer. George o. Wright of 220 Congress avenue, Mary B. Dewes, Mary Ann McGuire, Katie Smith and Mary Green, persons found in Riker's hotel, were each fined ST and $7. 35 costs. Katie Smith, alias Annie Reynolds, appealed her case. Mary Green had her fine paid and was re- leased, the rest went to jail.
 William Quinn, proprietor of the saloon 19 George street, was charged with keeping a house of assignation in the City court yester- day morning. Only one man named Wright, of Fair Haven, was found in the place, and Judge Deming decided that the evidence was insufficient and Quinn was discharged. SORT OF CoMPRoMsE-THE ITINERANT MFR
 CHANTS CASE.
 The case of Nathaniel K. Davidyan, the young Turkish student charged with selling goods without license. was resumed in the City court yesterday morning.
 Attorney Hugh Daley defended the new Common Council ordinance concerning itin- erant merchants in the case of Nathaniel K. Davidyan, the young Turkish student charg- ed with selling goods without a license, which came up in the City court before Judge Dem ing yesterday.
 Attorney Daley explained how the ordi- nance de itinerant merchants came into ex. istence and said that it was adopted at the request of local merchants for their protec- tion against mock auction shops. ''It is well known that transient merchants have worked this city for few weeks at the holiday sea- son and after reaping harvest have folded up Iu0lE tcut6 anu SbOIou away WlbnOuG pay ing any tax. A petition signed by multi tude of our resident merchants was sent to the Court of Common Council asking for protection. It was referred to the Commit tee on Ordinances, of which I am 8 member. We drew this ordinance. Now in regard to section 8, which is brought into question. It is an exact repro duction of the Hartford ordinance and was put in for this reason. Quite recently mock auction shops were transferred from atham street, New York, to this city and under the license of constable of this town were run here and the people victimized. When many complaints had reached the attorneys office a letter to the mock auctioneers and threat to prosecute drove them away. It was to cover this that section 8 was inserted"
 ''Does this not go farther than was intended in it's breadth of applicationa' asked Judge Deming, who thinks, as has been stated, that under section all resident commission merchants and others might be affected by it.
 ''No, your honor, I" replied Mr. Daley "It was not the intention of the framers of the ordinance to affect legitimate business men here, and section obviates your construc- ton of section 8 by providing that the Mayor may in his discretion abate all tax, and when non resident merchants have been here six months and the Mayor believes they are going to stay he may cancel their bond and rescind the license fec"
 MT. Davidyan testified that he had come here to get an education, and to get money to pay for it he had entered the business of selling Turkish goods for his brothers for 25 per cent. commission.
 Mir Cable thought that Davidyan went to school to learn the language so that he could more easily earn money, and this Davidyan virtually admitted.
 Judge Deming said that under strict in depreciation of the ordinance he should have to find Davidyan guilty. 'tI think, however, that this is one of the statutes where the court is allowed to suspend judgment, and will therefore suspend iudgment in this cass.'
 A SUIT OVER A PATENT.
 Charles A. Morse, of Boston, has brought suit against the Union Form company, whose factory is on Park street, for an alleged in fringement of patent. The suit is returna- ble in the United States court of Hartford.