Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-02-28
Court Notes.

S0sSoM hOuse DuAu1nS AL Ii ocAocA ILLS
forenoon with Judge Shipman on the bench.
The following is the panel of grand jurors
for the term: George M. Harmon, Wilbur
F. Day, Nathan F. Easterbrook, jr., and E.
M. Reed, New Haven; James A. Bill, Lyme;
Benjamin A. Bailey and Edwin Bennett,
Brooklyn; h. B. Curtiss, Bridgeport; Jam es
b. Beard, Huntington; D. N. Couch, Nor
walk; William B. Ellis, Terryville; Bella P.
Learned, Norwich; Jeffrey o. Phelps, Sims
bury; James Ryder, Danbury; Henry Lar
rabee, Windham; Albert Waterman, Boz
rah; Fred N. Stanley, New Britain; John
Thompson, Ellington; Henry S. Wheeler,
Southbury; Robert Clarkson, Stratford;
Charles H. Pine, Ansonia; A: T. Douglas,
Stonington; Charles D. Thayer, Thompson;
John w. Hill and E. @. Lewis, Waterbury;
Robert P. Smith, New Hartford.
The following is the panel of petit jurors
for the term Addison Bunnell, Plymouth;
David A Wakeley, TrumbulI; Ralph J. Blu
Joseph E. Field, Easton; Shelleek N. Osborn,
Easton; George T. Bushnell, Derby; Silas A.
Greenwich; Edison Sherman, Haddam;
George Beughton, Ridgefeld Rob
ert A. Hollinger, Charles W. Hem
ingway, 81. E. Hendryx, of New Haven;
William P Hill, Guilferd; Orrin A. Knapp,
Stamford; Samuel P. Haynes, Bethlehem;
Myron w. Dean, Canaan; Washington
Bowdish. Sherman; Robert 81. Comstock,
Essex; Denaas Cornwall, Portland; Harvey
V. Atwood, Beacon Falls; William II. West
wood, Horace H. Platt, Meriden.
He Must support His Wife.
The case of Morris Alderman finally came
to trial in the City court yesterday morning.
T,,J- DioIyeS 10 nor
man should go to Jail for sixty days or fur
nish bond of 500 to pay So week to his
wife fer period of six months. The ac-
cused appealed to the Common Pleas court,
March term, on a bond of 5000.
The Result of q sunday Fight.
Albert Coppelman and Charles Flynn were
in the City court yesterday, charged with
other. The court inflicted a penalty of
$1424 on Coppelman and Flynn's fine
amounted to $11.7s.
Oonv1ctin& Evidence Against Mrs.
West.
Mrs. Lizzie West the woman accused of
shoplifting from Wilcox's dry goods store,
was tried in the City court yesterday morn
ing. Miss Emma L. Barnes a saleslady,
told of Mrs. Vests actions in the store the
day the silk was taken. Mr.. Curtiss Wilcox
identified the woman as the one whom he
saw in the store. He told the story of the
theft, the discovery and Identification, sub
stantially as in the COURIER. Other evil
cused was given. Judge Pickett found
probable cause and bound the woman over
| to the April term of the Superior court un-
der bond of $500. She went to Jail.
The Blacklist Cases.
The Railroad Gazette in its current issue
says of the nolIed blacklist cases
brought against Superintendent Opdyke
N~e L. |, 1ko-, 1ork Ill.
''The blacklist case in New Haven which
was reported last fall as having been decided
in the City court of that city against the SUI
perintendents of the Consolidated and North
ampton roads for giving to each other their
lists of employees who had been discharged
has been dropped by the States attorney. 1t
appears that the real question of the law con-
corning such an act did not come up at all,
as the case never reached the higher court,
being dropped apparently because the evil
dence tended to show that there had been no
consultation, either criminal or otherwise,
between the accused superintendent. A
truthful blacklist is not wrong in itself, yet
it is a device which should be employed
with great caution whether one is
afraid of labor organizations or not, for
q conscientious superintendent can easily give
unintentional aid to some other superinten-
dent-who is not conscientious or even care
ful-in misusing a man. The real motive in
using blacklist is often merely to save time
and work; but this is likely to prove unjust
to the employer as well as the applicant. To
appoint men on their ascertained merits may
sometimes involve the technical isolation of a
proper rule which blacklist would have pre-
vented, but substantial harm seldom ensues;
while to appoint person without an inquiry
| into his capabilities and reputation is poor
practice, whether there be blacklist or not"
| States Attorney Doolittle says the case was
nolled as he had concluded that was the best
disposition to make of it.