Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-26
CRIMINAL COURT.
John Reed Refused His $4,000
Bail Money.
Dongs in the Superior Civil, the Probate
and Insolvency and Central
District Courts.

At the opening OF the superior Grim.
inal court, Tuesday morning, Col. w
A. Gle, counsel for John Reed, the al
legged bunco man, filed a motion to re.
lease the $4,000 bail money deposited as
security for the appearance of Reed
alias Spencer, to answer to the charge
of assault upon an officer Col Gile
pointed out that Reed is now confined in
the Middlesex county Jail at Cambridge
without bail and beyond the control OF
bail, and could not be brought into
court unless by order of the district at
torney In regard to the charge. Col.
Gle stated that Reed did not know the
Identity of the officer when he made the
assault and simply defended himself.
District Attorney Herbert Parker OPP
posed the motion, which was afterwards
denied by Judge Hopkins.
The first case for trial was that of
John Sullivan of Worcester, indicted
for breaking and entering a railroad
car, Dec. 10. The defendants wife tes-
titled that he was at home on the night
Of the alleged break, but a number of
trainmen testified that they had seen
Sullivan near the scene of the break on
the night it was committed The jury
returned a verdict Of guilty. and Sulli-
van was sentenced to the house of cor
rection for two years ]. H. Meagher for
the defendant
Walter A. Schultz pleaded guilty to
the charge Of adultery and was placed
on probation. Thayer & Perry for the
defendant.
Walter Dudley, indicted for adultery,
pleaded guilty, and his case was contin-
ued
Charles Williams of Worcester, con-
victed Monday of breaking and enter
ing barn, was sentenced to the house
of correction for one year. Thayer &
Perry for the defendant
James Patterson pleaded guilty to
driving away team of George Barton
of Worcester, and was sentenced to the
house of correction for six months. j. f.
McGovern for the defendant.
William H. Houghton of Leominster,
indicted for adultery, was found guilty
and sentenced to the house of correction
for 10 months.
At the afternoon session James Sill
of Sutton was arraigned for breaking
and entering the house of Nathan Ben
nett in Sutton, Aug. is, 1897. He was
also charged with assault and battery
on Nathan Bennett. On the latter charge
the jury returned a verdict of not guilty
by order of the court, and on the former
the district attorney waived the charge
of battery. The jury returned verdict
of not guilty on the charge of assault.
/ ]. F. McGovern and j. P. Morrissey for
the defendant
James Connors of Southboro was ar
raigned for sentence on the charge of
breaking and entering the house OF
Charles A. Kidder in Southboro, Dec. II,
1897. He was sentenced to the house Of
correction for Is months. Connors was
also charged with assault with intent to
kill George L. Works, who attempted to
affect his arrest. This case was filed.
Giovanni Guilino of Northboro, who
was indicted for assault with intent to
kill Francis Valence, Oct. rs. 1896, plead
| ed guilty to assault with a dangerous
weapon, which plea was accepted by the
| district attorney. Sentence was deferred
John Clark, William Dunn, Frank Nc
/ CIure, James Mcintyre, Joseph Welsh
and Albert Waters were arraigned fol
| breaking and entering a freight car or
! the Boston and Albany railroad, and the
! larceny therefrom of bottles of wine
! Dec. II, 1897. This case occupied the at
| tention of the court until adjournment
| and will be resumed this morning. Sew
| eral witnesses testified to seeing the de
| PENDANTS in the vicinity of the break or
/ the morning following. Mcintyre
| claimed he was a LOGGER at the Waldo
street police station on the night in
question. and his statement was verified
upon inquiry by Special officer Deadly,
at the request of District Attorney Her
bert Parker,
The cases in order for trial today are
as follows:
Perry Warrington, false pretences.
Thayer & Perry.
| Michael Rafferty,. breaking and enter
ing Larkin.
Benny Ferro, assault with intent to
kill.
James Jones, larceny. Haggerty &
| Kane.
Russell Arnold, liquor keeping. Hag-
! gerty & Kane.
| James K Stratton. James F. McDer-
| mott and Michael Sullivan, breaking and
| entering on two counts.
/ John Martin, liquor keeping. Fales.
John j. O'Malley, liquor keeping
| Joseph F. Bergman, liquor keeping.