The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-12
IN AND ABOUT THE COURTS
FRANCISCO PAS0UALE GETS TWO
 YEARS IN STATE PRISON

FRANCISCO PAS0UALE GETS TWO
 YEARS IN STATE PRISON.
 Trial of Alleged Copper Thieves Begun
 Gases i'm the United States Court-Or-
 rim J. Sickle DiseharSed-$5,O0O
 Damage Suit Against the City-Other
 Court Notes.
 Francisco Pasauale, who shot Fred erick Casper a culored man, early last summer, was yesterday afternoon found guilty of assault with intent to kill and was sentenced to two years in state prison. The shooting occurred in Pas uuale's saloon on Oak street and Cas- per was in critical condition for some time, but finally recovered. Pasquale was arrested by Patrolman John Stan- ford.
 At the close of Pasduale's trial the trial of the men arrested short tune ago by Detective Donnelly for theft ot copper from the Seymour Manufacture ing company began. The three men held for the theft of copper alleged to have been taken at different times from the shop are Hilbert Fontaine, Jacob Keplin and Morris Shoritz Keplin was put on trial yesterday afternoon, and Fontaine took the stand as wit ness for the state. He said that he was employed in the Seymour Manufactur- ing companys shops when the copper was stolen He said that he took the copper and that Keplin and Shoritz pur- chased it from him, knowing that 1t had been stolen. He said that they had asked him to steal it and that they promised to stand by him if anything happened. He said that he stored the copper in his cellar and that Keplin and Shoritz came to his house and took it away in a wagon.
 The ease will go on this morning Keplin is defended by Attorney Slade. It was enormously stated in an after noon paper yesterday that the trial or Mrs Baraquin, the Hamden woman charged with arson, would go on after the close of the Pasquale trial State Attorney Williams said yesterday af- ternoon that he did not know when he would put her on trial. It is probable however, that her trial will begin after the copper-stealing case is concluded. UNITED STATES COURT-JUDGE
 TOWNSEND.
 Judge Townsend of the United States court yesterday handed down an opin- ion in the case of the Chandler AdJust- able Chair company against the town of Windham of this state. The suit IS brought against Windham, as it is user of a certain kind of adjustable school chair which regulates to the size of the pupil who uses it. The real de- fendants were the Haywood Brothers and the Wakefield company, who made the chairs put in the Windham schools. The court finds that the town does not infringe on the patent of the chars, and dismisses the bill of the complain ants.
 The United States court came in at Hartford Tuesday for the October term with Judge Townsend on the bench. There was nothing for the jury, which was excused until November 21, when the suit of P. H. Harrison & Sons against the city of Hartford for $4o,0oo damages for alleged extra work in sew CT construction will be heard
 The case of the United States against Theodore Davenport was nolled. The case of the Empire Mining and Milling company against the Tombstone Mill and Minning company was set down to be argued on demurrer at New Ha- ven on November 15 at ii o'clock in the morning.
 The suit of the United States against Charles Soby was continued until the April term at New Haven.
 The suit of Emory F. Strong against the United States was continued to the next term.
 The case of the American Surety com pany against the Worcester Cycle com many will be argued at New Haven on November 23.
 The suit of Herbert $. Owen against the Pope Manufacturing company will be tried at the court at New Haven on December 8, and the suit of the West inghouse Electric company against the New England Granite company ct al, which will take four days, will be tried at New Haven on October 16. PROBATE JUDGE CLEAVE-
 LAND.
 Clerk MdTVlU IllJS6u tildt IIiC SdoC6 in which no action had been taken by either party in the last five years be stricken from the docket This is the first time that any cases have been stricken from the docket by order of the court Some of the cases which MT. Marvin wanted to go off have been I pending for thirty years and they have been accommodating for that time or longer. Judge Townsend ordered that they go off and 135 were stricken off. The action is without prejudice to new suits being brought in the same ac- ton.
 Informal notice of a contest over the | will of the late Elizabeth Ann Merrl- man of Westville was filed by Judge Bishop in the probate court yesterday ! in behalf of the husband and children of the testatrix.
 Mrs. Merriman left two wills. Ihe l second one was drawn only one month ! after the first one was drawn. In the |
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