The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-17
COURT RECORD.
Superior Court - criminai Side Judge
 Wheeler.

In this court yesterday stephen Gillis of Derby. who was convicted of per
 jury Friday afternoon. was sentenced
 to eighteen months in the state prison at wethersfieid.
 Late in the afternoon the trial of
 Burton II. Warner of North Haven,
 charged with the theft of a bicycle
 from A. A. Hall, was commenced and
 resulted in the jury rendering a verdict of not guilty. on the ground of insanity.
 Warner will be committed to the state
 insane asylum at Middletown until fur
 ther orders of the court.
 The trial of Frank Barker of Bran- ford, charged with arson. was com
 menced and Is still on trial. Barker IS charged with burning his own house and some goods of Mrs. Margaret Daw- son, with intent to defraud her. The latter Is totally blind, her eyes having
 been put out years ago by her husband,
 who was sent to state prison for his crime and subsequently died there.
 Barker's trial will be resumed at 10 o'clock this morning.
 Judge Wheeler also heard the argu-
 ments in the demurrer filed by the de- fense in the cases against Anthony | Spinello, James A. Caporale and Dr. D'Elia, charged with criminal libel, and | finally decided to overrule 1t. The ar- guments were made by P. Pond, 2d, for the accused, and State Attorney Doolittle, assisted by ex-Judge Blyden- burgh.
 The October term of the Waterbury superior court opened in this city yes- terday with Judge Prentice on the
 bench. The trial of Peter Mcdonald, charged with stealing a gold watch l from Owen Crowley, was taken up and is still unfinished. Among the other cases which will come up for trial are the following:
 Moy Chung, assault with intent to murder; Dominica Manfredo, murder; Lulu Riggs, adultery; Annelo Morelli, assault with intent to murder; August Nillson, assault and breach of the peace; John Keefe, theft from person; John F. Cam, adultery; Emma Minnis, adultery; Nellie O'Brien, adultery, and James E. Deveney, assault with intent to commit rape.
 City Court-Criminal Side-Judge Cable. John J. Healey, breach of the peace nolle; Joseph Ryan, breach of the peace, $1 fine, $10.2S costs; Thomas Kelly, drunk and breach of the peace, bond called; Elisha Trowbridge, assault with intent to kill, continued until October 22; Adolph Steiner, non-support, con- tinued until October 31; Marcus E. Aus tin and Eugene Austin, discharging firearms in city limits, continued until October 20; Paul Russo, abusive lan- guage, continued until October 22; Thomas Geeland, breach of the peace, continued until October 17; James Mom- sey, breach of the peace, s7 fine, $5.42 costs; begging, discharged; Mary Anr Fox, street-walking, 30 days in jail, $5.42 costs; Edward F. Quigley, George F. Cox, Robert Kiernan, David Levi, Edward Smith, Thomas J. Griffin, Frank Waters, A. L. Reid, George Abbott, David Hertz, John Gallagher, Thomas Vincent Louis Pierpont, George Scott, Frederick Walhoefer, John Durkin, Lewis B. Bristol and Henry Cohen, policy-playing and gaming, continued until October 20; Denecro Marco, breach of the peace, nolle; John Erickson, breach of the peace, continued until October 17; Charles B. Bates, non-sup- port, continued until October 20: John Conrad Wurtz, violation of city ordi- nance, $1 fine, $7.06 costs.