The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-07
YESTERDAY IN THE COURTS
THE CRIMINAL SIDE OF SUPERIOR
 COURT OPENS WITH 4S CASES.


 COURT OPENS WITH 4S CASES. Prisoners to be Tried This Session and Charges Against Them Common Pleas Criminal Side Opens-Clayton Will Broken in Probate Court--C City Court Cases. ". -,r.~ Forty-thr persons. six of whom were women, were arraigned before
 Judge Elmer at the opening \of the criminal side of the superior court yes- terday morning.
 John Grava and Antonio Berili, charg-.
 ed with having assaulted each other on | May 2S, pleaded not guilty and the trial was assigned for to-day. Frank H. Boylan pleaded not, guilty | of the three offences of theft. The first | theft was committed on August 29 1898,
 and the last during June of the present year.
 Frederick G. Fox and Samuel Burke
 pleaded not guilty of burglary on April l6, It Is charged that they entered a building belonging to John s. Griffin. The cases are assigned for trial to-day. John Conroy and Frank Miller of
 Meriden, charged with attempting to break jail while serving a years sen- tence, for attempted burglary pleaded not guilty.
 William Cummings of Milford, charged with firing the houses of Pat rick Cullinan, John Connors and. Thomas Phelan in that town April 14,
 pleaded not guilty.
 Frank G. Gill, charged with breaking into the home of John Clark of East Haven on April F and "A pleaded not guilty. Owen Edwards, charged with burg | larizing the stores of Hugh H. Frank l lin and Leopold Besser on State street last May pleaded guilty to both charges | and State Attorney Williams recom- nended year In prison In each case
 Ex-Judge Pickett appeared for the prisoners.
 The court suspended judgment in the Franklin case and sentenced Edwards 1 to year in state prison. John Flaherty pleaded not guilty of SiiC oVNOilO Nlidl SS Ol DQl IlG | broke into the building of Herman Speh and Harris Ginsberg. He later changed 1 his plea and was sentenced to three years in state prison.
 | William Gillen, John Ford and James i Cardener, three very respectable look 1 ing men, pleaded not guilty of theft of s20 from the person of Herbert L. Judd of Wallingford Ex-Judge Blyden- | ht,,- +, %+ 1,.f tended them. M John J. Glynn, aged eighteen years,
 and James McKeon, aged seventeen ! years, pleaded guilty of breaking into | the store of John Beck on May 10 and
 were sentenced to jail for six months. Charlotte Gray pleaded guilty of theft, third offence. Sentenced to a year In state prison.
 | Frank Hommell, aged eighteen years
 of Meriden, pleaded guilty not guilty of
 having stabbed Thomas H. Mcguire on April 21, 1897, in the leg with intent to | kill Mcguire. He later. changed his | plea to guilty and was sentenced to a | year in state prison.
 l Thomas Kennedy, charged with be- | ing tramp in Meriden, pleaded not guilty.
 l Michael Leukeman of Vine street. l charged with manslaugther in connec-
 tion with the death of his wife, Mary l Leukeman, pleaded not guilty. It l is charged that on, May 25
 Leukeman struck his wife with some in i strument, the nature Of which is un- i known, knocked her down, against doors, floor and walls, and kicked Her so that on June she died from the re- l suit of the injuries.
 Stewart Lines pleaded guilty of the third offence of theft and was sentenced
 to one year in state prison. ] Thomas McKeon and John J. Coyne | were put to plead upon the charge of
 theft from the person 10 Paul Mewry
 at Guilford on May IT, 1897 It is
 charged that they stole $S. l Mary Ann Guy. colored, wife of John l Guy, and Albert w. Mcknight also col
 ored, pleaded not guilty of adultery. Thomas McSharey pleaded not guilty of assaulting Nicholas Corcoran on I April 23 He later changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to six months l in jail l Amelia Marunda, charged with steal I ing diamond pin worth SITS from | Charles T. Mallory the oysterman, on April 3, 1896, pleaded not guilty. l John J.. Murphy pleaded not guilty of
 breaking into the store of Max Kamen
 on April 12. Later he changed his plea | to guilty and was sentenced to eight cen months in state prison. l Bartholomew Pastore, charged with assaulting with intent to murder Gui-
 seppe Dinneno on May 27, pleaded not guilty 1 Michael Quigley of Meriden pleaded guilty of having made indecent assaults upon Annie Shipke, aged ten, and Elsie
 Weinberg, aged ten. both of Meriden, on June G. He was sentenced to six
 months in each case.
 Nicholas Weller, the furrier, pleaded guilty of having stolen $S1O worth of sealskins from Friend E. Brooks. He was sentenced to year In state prison without any discussion of the case. The state attorney nolled the charge of statutory burglary against Weller in breaking into Brooks store, where he l had been employed. in consideration of the plea of guilty in the other case. John McMahon of Meriden pleaded guilty of theft and was sentenced to
 one year in state prison.
 Fred H. Root pleaded guilty of the
 charge of second offence of burglary I A-x. 1Nrn<NN tr1