The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-19

grabbed the knife and struck him. At- torney Pond asked for her discharge on the ground that she was defending her honor.
 Judge Cable fined her SEQ and dis charged Volandi.
 Frank Kelly, who was arrested on May for burglarizing the saloon at the corner of Hallock and Washington streets the day before, gave his name as Frank James Kelly of 3S7 East Sev- enty-siXth street, New York. He is tif- teen years old and on the day of the trial the case was continued for inVes- tigation. Agent Preston of the organ ized Charities wrote to the New York organization about him, and received a letter from E, I. Scott, the registrar, stating that there Is no such number as 3S7 on East Seventy sixth street and no such family as Kelly reside on the street. Yesterday Kelly was commit ted to the reform school. He Is sup posed to be one of the prisoners who recently escaped from Randalls Isl- and.
 Frank Carlisle of 15 Grove street went into Smiths saloon on that street with d WHICH Ol loIlllilSs LIS Nsip opNlbttAAt1 1t with nickels when Sergeant Crocker nabbed him. He said yesterday morn ing that he was butcher and had been working in Torrington all winter He had just taken the layout out of pawn and was merely showing how it work ed. Judge Cable fined him $1O and costs.
 Policemen Hyde and Marlow raided the saloon of William Henchy, at 2of Congress avenue, at 1 o'clock Sunday morning and arrested the proprietor and Fred Smith and Joseph Kallfals, who were in the place drinking. The cases were continued until May 23. Henchy resisted all the way to the sta ton house.
 Thomas Kilbride, who does odd jobs for students, was arrested by Sergeant Cowles Sunday night for the embezzle- ment of S15 from student named Lou- is E. Stoddard, son of Ezekiel Stod- dard. It is claimed that Stoddard gave the boy $15 with which to buy tickets for "The Rivals" and he never showed up with the tickets or the money. Xiii bride claims that he could not get the tickets and left the money in drug store opposite Osborn hall. The case was continued until Wednesday under $200 bonds.
 A raid was made on the house at S53 Chapel street Sunday night, and the proprietress, Augusta Lindsley, was ar rested Three men and one woman were found in the place, but were not | locked up. The case was continued un- | til May 21. The Lindsley woman is | charged with keeping a disreputable | house.
 | UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT.
 The May term of the United States district court will open in Hartford on | Tuesday, May 26, at 10 o'clock a. m, with Judge w. K. Townsend on the | bench The new cases are as follows: Criminal-United States vs. Arthur Van Nolts: United States vs, George 1 Dayton; United States vs. F. s. Hitch cock.
 CIVILIZATION & Comstock vs. the Ericsson; Alvin Winship ct al vs same; Austin Williams vs. same; United | States vs. Iowa Iron works; George N. Gardiner vs. the Ericsson; F. E Mar win vs United States; Louis K. Church, receiver vs. Edwin Aver. There are seventeen old criminal cases and twenty-one old civil cases on the docket, several of which have been continued for many years.
 UNITED STATES COURT DE-
 CISIONS.
 Judge Townsend of the United States court handed down two decisions yes terday. The first was in the case oi l William J. Matheson against John Campbell, both of New York, in which | the complainant alleged infringement | of process for making naphtha black.
 Judge Townsend found for the com plainant, whereupon counsel for the de fendant asked that the case be reop' ened on the ground that the judge 1T his opinion has confused the process with the product thereof.
 In his decision yesterday Judge Town send finds that no such confusion ob' tained in his opinion and orders that z decree for an injunction and account ing be entered.
 His second decision was in the cast | of Henry H. Boodey of New Yorl against the Chicago and Northwestern
 Railway company. He sustains the de
 murrer entered by defendant.