Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-13
JUDGE CoWELL ANGRY.

V V I'M G w w GIG HtNNtl . Sorry He Did Not XIII Joseph Metz
 and Said Some One Ought to Crack
 His SkulI-Other Interesting Cases.
 In the police court this morning Joseph Metz was charged with assault on John Frain. Attorney Kendrick appeared for the accused and made an able plea for hls client. Train accused Metz of keeping house of bad repute. and this MT Kendrick thought was more than any man could bear. "Oh," said Judge Cowell, ''no one could say anything about this Metz that would not be true. He is the most dis reputable man in Waterbury and ought to have had a place in states prison long ago. talked with him in my office one time and was sorry after he went out that I did not kill him. A man who would abuse his wife and neglect his child as this man has done is not human. and while he was abusing his innocent child it was a wonder that someone did not smash his skull. If this had been done and the person who did the act were brought be- fore me I should acquit him at once" Metz was found guilty and fined $10 and costs. His wife was with him and her face was a study during the judges re- marks.
 Michael J. Lawlor of South Main street was charged with keeping a disorderly house, where drinking and dissolute per sons resort He pleaded not guilty. The following witnesses swore that the Ger mans who resort in the place make night hideous with their yells, rendering it im- possible for the eneighbors to sleep until late into the night. w. H. Halleck, o. B. Twining, F: c. Platt. G. L: Platt A. L. wiegand. F. E. Demers, w. Spiers, Mrs George Green. One of them said that a fellow comes around there with a voice like thunder and commences singing in low tone and winds up with a war whoop that would wake the dead. Judge Cole, who appeared for the accused, asked Mrs Green why she did not rent a tenement beside 8 cemetery with 8 river on the other side. He said he thought she was not used to living on a public thoroughfare. When Lawlor was put to plea he said that the old residents of the place had no fault to find with his method of doing busi- ness. All the faultfnders were new corners, he said. The following swore that they lived in the neighborhood and never heard any disturbance there: Louis Schick, Edward McAlenny. Cor nelius Moriarty, Officer John Sullivan, Louis Strobel. Officers Bailey and Tehan, also testified that they heard the singing and thought the noise was just as loud in some of the saloons in the center. still both ad- mitted that it was enugh to bother people in the immediate vicinity who might want to sleep before the saloon closes. The case was adjourned for two weeks to give the proprietor an opportunity of abating the nuisance. Just as the court was about to render his decision Judge Cole said: Il notice that all the complainants are thin cadaverous looking fellows If they would drop into a saloon once ia while and sit down and have a good laugh over 9 glass of lager they would reel better and would find no difficulty in going to sleep as soon as they struck the bed"
 Thomas Broderick was arrested in Bridgeport yesterday and brought to this city on charge of bastardy. In court this morning the victim of his treachery, Miss Annie Duhig. appeared against him. She was accompanied by her two year old child, which made the court room ring | with it's cries when it was taken out of it's mothers arms while she was in the wit ness stand, and Prosecutor Webster or | dered the little one put in chair beside her. The woman said that Broderick was the father of her child and he always promised to, marry her. When BrodericB took the stand he said he was willing to marry the women If she would make | affidavit that he was the father of the child. Have you ever had reason to women's child " asked Mir Web. ster. He said he had, Why asked Mir Webster. Well answered the accuse |. II did not know her lopg enough before she told of this matter" "How long were you acquainted with her before she informed you of hel trouble?" inquired MT Webster Five months" was the answer. After a few more passes between the accused and the prosecutor the accused consented to marry | the woman. Here the selectman stepped il and wanted to know who was going to pay the expense of making the arrest $2S, and | $15 for a former bill The court took re
 cess for fifteen minutes to give all hands
 chance to talk the matter over. Brodericl l refused to pay the bills, and the select
 men, seeing he was immutable, though
 it best not to stand in the way of having
 the ceremony take place. \ license Wa
 procured and in few minutes Prosecutin,
 Attorney Webster had pronounced tn,
 couple man and wife, while Fredticl
 Stra wbacker executed war dance abou
 the court room.
 Other cases disposed of were: Johr
 Meehan. drunkenness. thirty day iu jail
 William J. Fitz gerald, drunkenness anC
 trespassing on the property of the Ne1
 England road. S5 and costs for drunken
 ness. the other charge being dismissed
 Angelo Tagho and Nicolo Grappo go
 into fight on Bank street last night an,
 during the struggle Taglio put ston
 through the plate glass window in tn
 cobbliDG shop in the Ward falts, jus
 north of the bridge. He was fined S1 an,
 costs for rupkenness. $2 and costs for as
 sault and g and costs for breaking tn
 window. Grappo was discharged.