Evening journal., 1890-04-11
MUNICIPAL COURT.
Kato Lavo Held for Assault and Battery,
Rachel Ambrose held for Larceny.

Kato Lavo Held for Assault and Battery.
Rachel AmbrOss held for Larceny.
At Municipal Court this morning w. 5.
Hilles. Esq, appeared in the place of
City Solicitor Turner, who was detained
by other business. James Miller of
Hedgeville, drunk. SO and costs; William
Bower, drunk So and costs; John Vat
son, drunk on the coast, $3 and costs;
William Connaway, disorderly conduct at
Fourth and Market streets, 81 and costs;
William Greer, vagrancy on Fifth and
Monroe streets, dismissed on his promise
TO leave the city Immediately.
Kato Lavo. charged with assault and
battery on Frank Morillo pleaded not
guilty. Morillo swore that he started
from his house to work yesterday morn
leg, when Lavo, who lived next door,
jumped from behind a gate, where he
was hiding. and struck him on the shoul-
der with an iron chisel The witness
started to run from Lavo, when he fell,
when the latter struck him again on the
leg They had some words over quar-
rel between the children the evening be-
fore Angelina Leoni, an intelligent
Italian woman. corroborated the former
witness, and told all about the quarrel
the evening before.
Rosa Pernelli, pretty Italian woman,
testified to the same story. adding
that she heard Lavo yell ON killa you
twice. The two women separated the
men before the assailant had carried his
threat into effect Charles sll. a
colored man, said that the two families
had engaged in a quarrel the night be-
fore and were again quarreling yesterday
morning, when his attention was drawn
TO the Italian court. He saw Lavo strike
Morillo with the chisel.
Lavo stated to the court that he had
been annoyed greatly by the Morillo
children and on Wednesday afternoon,
one of the boys about twelve years cid,
struck or knocked down his little boy,
who is only three years old When he
asked why it was done he was answered
with oaths and the command to mind his
own business. He~said that Morillo was
the aggressor and he only struck to de.
fend himself. He was held in 800 bail
to appear again tomorrow morning.
Rachel Ambrose, colored, pleaded not
| guilty to the larceny of gold pencil and
pen from Mrs. Lavinia Sipple, colored,
/ of No. 20S West Eighth street. Mrs.
| Sipple swore that Rachel pulled the
| jewel from ner dress at party at Mrs.
| nlpple nome ldl6 III NONtmDeIi loOOi
and that she recognized her property on
one Robert Barber, colored, who came in
her store for cigars on Monday night
She asked Rachel about it several time:
and she said it would be returned to her
Robert Barber stated that Rachel gave
the pencil to him as a Christina
present with his initials inscribed on the
outside. He had been in the store more
than a dozen times, wearing the pencil IL
the same conspicuous place on his watcl
chain and Mrs Sippie had never claimed
it before Rachels sister, Martha, swor
that the was walking down Eight
street with Rachel one morning early il
December. Rachel kicked a piece o
white paper laying on the pavement
md afterwards picked it up, saying
I've found somebody's gold ring"
proved to be the same gold pen and pen
Gil that was offered in evidence. Rache
stated that she found the piece of jewelr,
as her sister had stated ard afterward
presented it to Barber She was held il
S100 bail for her appearance at the Cour
Of General Sessions.