Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-24
ATTORNEY COLE REBuKEo.
Warned by Judge Root to be RespsCtfui To tho Court-To-Days Developments In the workxof Reform.

 Der of the force was present. It is be- coming more apparent to the publicuthAt Chief Egan has started in on system of purifying the city which is bearing fruit by the heavy police court business. At torneys Cole and Lawlor appeared in the Harvey Brothers and Birney cases and asked for an adjournment until tomorrow. as they had not had time to prepare their cases They claimed the state had six months in which to prepare the case and they only had few hours. Attorney Cole started to ask what kind of police force they bad that allowed disorderly houses to run for six months, when Judge Root rebuked him and said no reflection should be cast on the police force. Att torney Russell said that he had all the officers present and one witness in particu- lar had to go away to be absent for one week. Judge Root decided to hear the cases.
 The first trial was that of Alphonso Sch,avone, who keeps saloon at II Meadow street, in the rear of the Cooley house. He was charged with keeping a disorderly house and with keeping a house reputed to be B house of assignation. At tornsys Lowe and Lawlor defended him | The officers who testified in the case were: Sergeant Dodds, Detective Egan. Patrol men McCarthy, Moore, Ahern. NJ. Sulli- van, Pagan, Blakeley, Smith. ClaffNy, Reid. Tehan, Byrnes and McNiff. Their testimony was in effect that lewd women have been seen going in and out of the place afternoons and nights. Entrance for the women was through a small gate into m alleyway and thence into a rear oDom Two women were known. Seven Gents" and Dora Rumrill. Women were put of there by the officers. man and a | woman escaped through rear window from one of the officers. The woman was partly undressed and on the advice of the officer went to the station house for lodg- ing. Little girls had told some of the the officers that the house was bad. They
 were not Italian women who went there. Officer Tehan pointed out an Italian in court who. he said, told him that women congregated in the place.
 The defense put on Schiavone. who denied all the stories. so did his bartender
 Frank Rametti, who said his business carried him into Italian saloons, more or
 less, said that he found the place as good
 as the general run of saloons.
 Frank Capizzuti, the Italian whom Off, cer Tehan pointed out. was put on the stand, but helped to kill the case. He
 was so well acquainted with Emma War
 ner. ''Seven Gents, land Dora Rumrill that
 he was told to stand down. Attorneys Lowe and Lawlor made n strong argument in favor of acquittal.
 Judge Root said that of course where a
 man has license it does not prevent him from selling to people although their repu- tation Is bad, but the evidence of the back
 room and Warner beiug seen going in there was sufficiently plain to prove that
 they did not go in there for moral pur-
 poses He fined Schiavone Sl00 and
 costs.
 It was II o'clock when the next case was called, that of John k. Birney,
 charged with the sans offense. The first
 witness's testimony got Judge Root and Attorney Cole into an argument which re- suited in Attorney Cole being rebuked. Sergeant Dodds was the witness. He
 said that the place was reported to be a } place where lewd women resort for pur- ? poses of prostitution. He saw lewd } women go in there and mentioned the l Kennedy sisters as coming out of there at ! half past eleven at night Almost every
 one who ran the place had a bad reputa-
 tion. He heard of the place the night he
 fore last. when Officer Blakeley reported
 to him that he saw ''lady and gentle
 man" coming out of there.
 This started the argument. Judge Cole asked if that was the exact language the
 officer used Sergeant Dodds did not , know whether Blakeley said "man and woman" or ''lady and gentleman. Judge , Cole asked to have the witness censured for not testifying properly. Judge Root said he did not think the officer needed censure Judge Cole said that he did and the court should not smooth il over. Judge Root said: II want to give you dis. tinct notice now, Mir Cole that you must
 use more civility to the court" Then the examination went on with Judge Cole
 quoting the polce laws and critIcising the police force for not arresting the man be- , fore now when the place had such a repu- . tation. The officer said there was res
 taurant connected with the saloon il was there that Birney's brother was ar , rested for committing adultery some
 months ago. He never saw any respect able people come out of the restaurant He had heard a woman who was eook
 there complain, and very forcibly, too. Here the court took n recess for five
 minutes. It was twenty minutes to F when tho court opened again
 Detective Egan gave description of the
 place, he had seen people of bad reputation
 at all hours in the place and put out men
 and women who were in there. He put |. out two girls who had been arrested fol
 theft. who were sitting at a table with
 Birney. Did not want to tell their names | He was not pressed to tell. Asked
 If he kept record. he said he did and F when asked to produce it Judge Roo , told him he need not do so a that the defense could not require a the police records in the trial. Referring
 to the gIrls again he said they cried anC 6 after a little advice he allowed them to gt
 home. He thought that Birney's place
 was worse six months ago than now.
 The following officers then testified
 Lieutenant Bannon. Patrolmen Ahearn
 Noonan. McCarthy, Moore. Pagan and Nc. l Nlf, Their testimony was to the effec l. that the reputation of the place ..was bad Q Women and:. men had been put out O il there. Nellie O'Mara. prostitute. hat t told one of the officers the placs was bad q The story in relation to Birney's brother V being arrested by Officer Aharn. charge' | with adultery. committed in the place oI l. August 3l was told It was then on l. o'clock and the court adjourned until 2. l. When court re-opened at ? o'clock Of l. cers Blskeley. w. Brickel, Reid. Claffey
 J. Brickel and Hayes, all told practicalI.
 the same story. After the testimony wa
 in Judge Root asked for the accused. wh'
 was not then present. He came in shortl,
 afterwards and the arguments were made e Judge Cole argued that they did no @ prove that dissolute people resorted il b Birney's place for purposes of prostitution !. Judge Root did not care to hear from tn h state and fined the accused S100 and costs IT At half past two Fred and Ed ?, ward Harvey were put on tria t for keeping a disorderly house. De l. tective Egan said that prostitutes e street walkers. gamblers and thieves Ere is quented the place. He had seen prosti d tutes from the "Gate House" in the place ,t The testimony of the following officer
 WIS then taken: Sergeant Dodds, Patrol
 men Mccarthy, Moore. M. Sullivan. Baile. e NoonAn, Pagan. Smith. Blakeley. Healey