The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-20
CASE is DROPPED.
The Charges Against
Brinkworth Not
to Be Pressed.
A PHYSICAL WRECK.
Young Man is Very Sick
at His Home on Well
ington Street.

Walter H. Brinkworth, who year
ago today was in the full vigor of man
hood, now lies at his home on yelling
ton street, a physical wreck, half par
alyzed, and very sick young man.
Yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock the
indictment against him, which was
found by the grand jury for his at
tempt to kill his sweetheart, Miss Bes-
sic McDonough, was placed on file, af-
ter conference between his attorneys,
Sullivan & O'Connell, and Gen. Rock
wood Hoar for the government.
Brinkworth himself was too i'll to
appear, and his counsel addressed the
court in his behalf, saying that the de-
PENDANT was sick, having never recov-
cred from the shooting of himself, and
had been but recently discharged from
the hospital.
The girls family, in view of Brink
worth's condition, had given their ap-
proval to this course and the case is
now dropped. Sullivan & O'Conneu ap-
peared for the defendant
One of the most important jury cases
of the day was that Of John F. Burns
of this city, charged with breaking and
entering a freight car on the Boston
and Maine railroad, April 2. and the
larceny of knives, shoes, and other
merchandise. He was arrested short
" after the break had been commit
ted, and when searched at the police
station some Of the goods were found
on his person. Worcester police teSti-
| fled as to the facts of the case, and the
| jury found a verdict of guilty, after
being out a few minutes.
| Before sentence was imposed the de-
| PENDANT addressed the court, recitins a
| pitiful tale Of woe and misfortune. He
said that he had been without the care
| of a mother or father since ne was
| eight years Of age. Up to 1898 he DO
| clared that he had lived an upright
| life, but then he drank and rum had
| been the cause of his downfall. He
asked the court to send him to the
house of correction, but Judge Hop
| kins, after giving the case careful con-
sideration, sentenced the man to the
state prison for a term of not less than
I four nor more than six years.
| Gustaf e. Brick, a young fellow for
| merly well known, was tried on the
| charge of forging the name of C. H.
Adams to a check for $11, Brick having
written Adams name to the note and
| presented it to the Worcester National
! bank for payment. The bank refused
| to accept the check, and the defendant
was subsequently arrested upon being
| identified by the bank officials Tie
was sentenced to the state prison for
term of not less than two and half
years nor more than four years.
lanes NNalQh ri Clinton charged
with assault and battery upon David
e. Brown of Clinton, was found guilty
by the jury. He has served as a pri-
vate in Go. X, Ninth regiment. He
was sentenced for the term of one year
in the house of correction. T. r.
Larkin appeared for the defendant.
Fred w. Dempsey of Brookdeld, in
dicted for assault with intent to ravish,
pleaded guilty to simple assault, which
was accepted by the government, and
he was sentenced to the house of cor
rection for the term of six months.
Haggerty & Kane appeared for the
defendant.
Nellie Sullivan, charged with va
grancy, pleaded guilty, retracting her
former plea. She is now serving three
months sentence in the house of cor
rection, and the court ordered that at
the expiration of the term she Is new
serving, she should be allowed to 80
on probation.
Alfred Moorhouse, charged with the
larceny of a gold watch from a dwell
ling house, pleaded guilty. He had
previously been convicted of commit
ting two larcenies on the same day,
and on his plea he was sentenced to
serve one year at hard labor at the
house Of correction.
The last case of the day was that of
Joseph Johnson of this city, charged
with the larceny of SIS from the pocl,et-
book of a colored girl. The case was
unfinished. and will be given to jury
this morning.