The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-08
YESTERDAY IN THE COURTS
SEVERAL SENTENCED TO WETHERS-
 FEED PRISONIN SUPERIOR COURT.

fore Judge Elmer, Thomas Kennedy of Meriden pleaded guilty to being tramp and was sentenced to three months in jail John Conroy and Frank Miller, who were sent to jail for one year for burglary, last January,a who attempted to escape jail by saw ing the prison bars through, pleaded guilty and asked to be sent to state prison. Judge Elmer imposed sem tence of one year in prison, the sentence to begin at the end of the former sen- tence.
 The jury panel is as follows. Elmer E. Thomas, Charles P, Augur, Wood bridge; Loren H. Stannard, Rev. John Russell, New Haven Charles H. Still son, Matthew N. Ellis, Thomas Crane, Ansonia; Charles Carter, Beacon Falls; Clifton D. Rosha, Bethany; William Began, Lucien A. Merriman, Branford; H. H. Fields, Alonzo F. Adams, Ches- hire; F. Sheppard Goody, Robert Gard ner, Henry A. Hough. Christopher Do Ian, Derby; Lucius Smith, Merrick Rus sell and Samuel F. Bradley. East Ha- ven.
 In the case of Amelia Marunda, charged with having stolen $115 dia- mond ring on Good Friday last, while in George street saloon, from Charles T. Mallory of Fair Haven East, MT. Mallory, John T. Wenon of P East Grand avenue, Captain H. D.. Comics and Detective Henry J. Donnelly testi- field as witnesses for the prosecution. The accused testified for herself and Jeweler Samuel H. Kirby was called to testify as an expert as to the value of the ring. V, The arguments were made Assistant State Attorney Wheeler and State At
 torney Williams for the state, and At torney Pond for the defence.
 The jury returned a verdict of guilty after being out ten minutes, and the woman was sentenced to three years in state prison.
 John Leventy, who was employed as confectioner in Poli theater building, pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal assault on Kate M Dickson, his sister-in-law, on April 12, and was sen ,.nced to fifteen years in state prison.
 Thomas McKeon and John J. Coyne, charged with burglary rrom Paul Men sy in Guilford, changed their plea to guilty and were sentehced, McKeon to four years and Coyne to five years in state prison.
 The case of William Cummings of Milford, charged with arson, will be tried to-day.
 Morris Reilly was sentenced to two. years in state prison for burglary on two counts.
 SEVEN YEARS IN STATE PRISON.
 The Jury in the case of William A. Winterfield. charged with burglary, the jury in the superior court yester- day afternoon brought in verdict of. guilty and Winterfield was sentenced; to seven years in state prison. This was Winterfelds third offence at burg larizing. On May last he broke into the barn of George A. Pickett on Syl- van avenue and stole harness.
 FOUR MONTHS FOR ASSAULT.
 After the case of Winterfield had been disposed of in the superior court yesterday afternoon. Antony Bereli, an Italian, charged with assault on John Grova, was put to plea. He had pre- viously pleaded not guilty but changed his plea to guilty On recommendation of State Attorney Williams Judge FL mer sentenced him to four months in
 jail
 BOY ON TRIAL FOR ARSON. The case of William Cummings, an eighteen-year-old boy of Milford. charged with arson in setting fire to the house of Patrick Cullinan, the barn of John Connors and the barn of
 Thomas Whelan. all the buildings be- ing situated in Milford, was next called
 Young Cummings pleaded not guilty. Attorney Martin Conlon of this city is the counsel for the defence. The first witness called by the state was Charles Wilhelmy, who at the time of the all legged arson, April IA last, was deputy town officer in Milford, and arrested Cummings Wilhelmy said that on the night of the fires he had been ordered l to arrest any persons found on the streets who could not give good ac- count of themselves. He saw Cum mings skulking about and on asking | him what he was doing the boy replied | that he had just come from the rail-
 road bank where he had been sleeping. This explanation did not satisfy the | officer and he arrested the boy. Fresh
 tracks had been found in the garden | in the rear of the Cullinan house and Wilhelmy testified that the footprints were some distance apart, as though | the person who made them had been running. He testified that he took one \ of young Cummings shoes and that 1t | fitted exactly the tracks found in the
 Cullinan garden. A map of the locality
 was produced by State Attorney Will Hams and the witness pointed out on the map the location of the buildings | where the fires occurred, the place
 where he arrested Cummings, and the | place where the tracks were found. Before beginning the cross examina- | ton Attorney Conlon moved that the testimony of the witness in regard to | the fires in Culinan's house and l Phelan's barn be stricken out as the testimony did not go to show that any thing besides personal property had | been destroyed. The witness had said | that part of a sill and little hay in | the barn and some curtains in the | house had been burned. Judge Elmer stated that arson did not necessarily in- clude the burning of an entire building | or the whole or any part thereof and | he therefore denied the motion. MT.
 Conlon filed an exception. In the cross | examination which followed no new ] facts were brought out, although Mir l Conlon endeavored to show that the l tracks might have been made after the