Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-06-04
JUDGE ROOTS HOUR.
An Unusually La'ge Number of Offenders
Ihe Pen ThIs VI rnimE.

An Unusually Iarge Number of Offenders
the Pen This VI rning.
Judge Roots hour was heightened to an
hour and Il half this morning.
Two plain DRINKS settled for s. each
and one had sentence suspended.
Nicholas Cavan0ugh was surly this
morning when charged with drunkenness
and breach of the peace. He went home
Saturday night and broke up the furniture
him in his work. He would not say any
thing except that he would be declared
guilty whether he was or not He got
thirty days for drunkenness and three
| months for breach of the peace.
Bernard McNally's case was another of
the same sort. When Officer Tehan ar
| rested him he had an axe in his hand with
which he was threatening to kill his wife.
He was more polite to the court and got off
with thirty days for drunkenness and the
same for breach of the peace.
Officer Mccarthy showed the marks of
his tussle with Patrick Curran Saturday
night. Curran was sitting on the steps of
a house at the upper end of Union street
and when the owner requested him
to leave he refused The officer was calf d
and he lifted Curran 20 his feet and tried
to have hun go home. Curran, who is six
feet in height and athletic looking fell
low struck the officer in the face cutting
a cash across the nose. The officer then
buckled into him and for fifteen minutes
they had a rough and tumble fight. Three
young fellows came on the scene and with
their assistance Curran was landed IN the
station. He had nothing to say this morn
ing and he WAS given thirty days for
drunkenness and three months for resist
ance to officer.
Amelia MnrnhN lartnriDtr fha frIhnS
at the circus when Officer McNItf placed
her under arrest. All day yesterday she
was on the verge of delirium tremens. She
was charged this morning with drunk
enness and being common drunkard
Her husband spoke tor her, but Judge
Root sent her TO Jail for thirty days.
Frank Logan went into Marcus He'll
mans saloon Grand street Saturday
afternoon and began putting the glasses in
his pocket and when the bartender Frank
Hueber. tried to stop him he threw one of
the glasses at him. He was then put out
He picked up a stone and threw it through
the plate glass window. Edward Dwyer
who drives for Doerr, Hellman X Co, next
door. chased after Logan and caught him
under a wagon in Scovill street stable.
This morning he denied throwing the
stone, but Dwyer said he saw him. He
was fined 800 and costs.
Arthur Dews, nine years of age, was
charged with lncorrigibility. Mrs Charles
l.. Blackman said he stole pocketbook
from her two weeks ago. containing 50.
Two boys, Shepard and Beauchamp, told
of spending the money and of young Dews
taking paint brushes and other things from
his fathers store. E. w. Ensign told of
the attempt to burglarize Taylor & Co.'S
store Decoration day. Judge Cowell spoke
for the boy and said the father intended
to send him to the Gilbert home in Win
sted. Judge Root said he would hesitate
to send boy of such n character as young
Dews to associate with orphans. He there
fore, committed him to the reform school.
The two boys. Joe Farrell and Albert
Hummel. arrested by Chief Egan and one
of his officers Sunday morning, for shout
ing out newspapers for sale, had their
cases nolled after warning by Prose-
cutting Attorney Russell. They were
charged with violating the Sunday secular
law Section l 500 of the general statutes.