The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17

said that Leukman called at his office
 with his son-in-law the morning after
 the woman died. There the husband
 admitted to the doctor that he hit his
 wife with a brick Mir. Fitzgerald claimed that Leukman was drunk at
 that time. The doctor would not admit
 that to be the condition of the accused. pr, Flynn testified that he attended Mrs. Leukman at the request of Mrs.
 Hill, a neighbor. Leukman was there when he called. He said, his wife was drunk Dr. Flynn could not smell Whiskey and upon examining the wo-
 man he found she was suffering from brain trouble, Her condition was se- rious and he had her removed to the hospital.
 Little Annie Leukman, nine years old,
 was called to testify against her father. She said that on Monday evening her father came home and sitting down
 on sofa in a room with his wife he
 began to curse. Then he struck her on the jaw with his closed fist. Later he
 struck her with his fist again on the
 back on the head. The child thought
 he had been drinking. She said that when he struck her mother on the back
 of the head she fell to the floor, and was unable to get up. He put her in
 the bed, cursed some more and struck her again while she was in the bed The child testified also that her mother and father drank a great deal of beer together.
 On cross-eXamination the child said that on the day in question her mother was drunk, and also admitted that she did not see her father strike her moth- | CT. She said that she had been told that he did so by her six-year-old sis | ter.
 After the fourteen-year-old daughter, who did not live at home, had testified | to some unimportant facts, the court 1 took a recess until 9 o'clock Annie was then put on the stand again and held to her statement that she did not
 see her father strike her mother. City
 Attorney Brown claimed that the child
 was afraid to tell the truth in the pres | ence of her father.
 Attorney Fitzgerald, for the defence, held that the woman, Mrs. Lukeman.
 was drunk and fell against sharp
 corner of furniture, or a like object,
 and caused the bruise on the head. | Lukeman was held for the superior | court under $2,000 bonds. He was talk
 en to jail.
 | Annie Lukeman will be taken to the county home, and little Ella, the six year-old will be cared for at St. Fran-
 cis' orphan asylum.
 l MORE ITALIAN THIEVES. | Raymond, Luigi and Eugene Mores- ca, Italians supposed to be in the gem
 eral robbery of local merchants, were
 arraigned in the city court yesterday morning and pleaded not guilty. They live in the Italian quarter and came to | the central station to see some of their l imprisoned friends, when Detective | Donnelly arrested them, and it is be- lieved that they are in the shoplift- | ing business which has just been un- earthed.
 Some of those who were arrested have been released. Only eight of the
 original even dozen suspects remain to
 be tried on the 18th instant. The Mo-
 resca brothers will probably be defend
 ed by MT. Blydenbufgh.
 FINED FOR BREACH OF PEACE. | Able Weisner of 73 Union street, was | fined S2 and costs In the city court yes- l terday morning for breach of the peace against Cornelius J. Leary, conductor on the steamboat car of the Fair Ha-
 ven and Westville road. Near Chapel and State streets Tuesday evening Leary put newsboy off the car AL
 most simultaneously Leary received a brick on the head. The motorman said that Weisner threw the brick and Lea ry had him arrested. Weisner admit l ted throwing the brick, but said he did it in taking the newsboy's part. He said Leary owed the newshoys so much
 money that they guyed and angered