Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-23
FIFTEEN PRISONERS IN COURT.

The Old Police Station Filled With Sum-
 mer Boarders Three Young Toughs
 Commit Murderous Assault-Three
 Young Burglars Nipped in the Bud.
 Not in years has there been such a large grist in the police court mill as this morn ing. Saturday night there were no less than twelve prisoners in the police station, and all, with the exception of one, was charged with serious offenses.
 This morning the most important cases, which were the first called, were those against three young men named Thomas Mcdonald Thomas Dumphy and John Fla gan, otherwise known as "Tip" Mcdonald, ''Skiver Duffy" and "Curly" Pagan. The three were charged with murderous as sault on Charles R. Allertou. MT. Allerton is a we'll known Naugatuck man, being the brother of George Allerton, secretary of the Goodyear India Rubber company, and is the owner of large number of horses, which he keeps at Peter Kelly's livery stable. Saturday evening the three young men visited the stable. They wanted a team to drive to resort near Naugatuck. MT Kelly, with an eye to the safety of his property, sent his hostler, Walter Foley, to drive. When the party reached Naug atuck they wanted to go to Ansonia, but the driver, who is a gentle man of the African persuasion, with the proverbial perverseness of his race, refused as he had but one horse. The three boys insisted so forcibly that the driver became alarmed, and when they got out to get & drink Foley drove the horse back home The young men came back on the o'clock train and proceeded at once to the stable where they tried to whip Foley. MT Aller- ton sent the stable boy for policeman, but the three heard him giving the order and pitched into him, using a pitchfork, a scraper and shovel. Mir Allerton parried the blows as we'll as he could, but was finally laid low by blow from the shovel, it is said, at the hands of Duffy. The boys then escaped. MT Allerton was taken to Dr Axtelle's office where it was found that the outer plate of the frontal bone was fractured and that the muscles of the face and jaw were partially paralyzed. The boys were overtaken afterwards on South Main street. In the court room this morn ing Attorney John Webster said that Mir Allerton was unable to appear, having been unconscious since the attack and asked that the case be put over to Friday and the court so ordered.
 The next case was one of attempted burglary against Cornelius Poland, Thomas Bligh and August Perpentine. It seems that parties who give picnics at the ball grounds have the privilege of using the store house over night to protect their goods. Of late the store house has been broken into number of times, and Satur- day night Officers Dodds and McKenna were detailed to watch it. About o'clock the three boys vaulted the fence of the grounds and started for the store house. They stood within few feet of the officers and planned how they would break into the house, Poland suggesting that they tear a board off the roof Perpentine said that he had bunch of keys, one of which would probably unlock the door. They had a chair leg which they used as a ''Jimmy'' and broke the hasp off the door. One of them went to the rear of the house and ran into Officer Dodds hands. The latter caught him by the throat to prevent an outcry, and Officer McKenna started to the front and ''held up" the other two with his revolver. Bligh ran but was afterwards captured at his home. All were bound over to the next term of the superior court under a bond of $250 apiece.
 Thomas Mclaughlin, for being vagrant was sent to jail; Thomas Bowling, for be- ing drunk and blackening his wife's eye paid $3 and costs; Michael Coyle, for breaking in the door of his mothers house paid the same; Thomas Ferris, for drunkenness and carrying concealed weapons paid S17, and Edward Kelly for breach of the peace paid $7
 Pagan, Dumphy and Mcdonald are al present in the police station where they will remain until Friday morning unless bonds are procured. A rumor was about the streets this afternoon that MT Allerton was dead. This proved to be false. Al press hour he was resting easily and the 1 chances are in favor of his recovery.