Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-21
CALLAHAN DEFIES THE LAW.
Judge Root Had a Tilt With Him m
 Court To-day.

A disturbance took place on Branch street vcsterday between Julius and Samuel IhatZonofT on the one side and Mrs Pearl Iafel on the other that took over an hour to explain in the city court this morning. The Chatzonofts were charged with aSSaulting Mrs Ia fel and they were defended by Attor- ney Root Attorney Russell prosecut- ed The long story told in explaining the affair is briefly as follows: The comDlainant the defendants and an other family bought. a house on the aboVe-nameu street between them and some time age they began to quarrel as to who owned the property. The defendants have bought property ad- joining he cOmpiainant'S. and i'll which they also have an interest. and yesterday they were putting some clap boards on their house when Mrs Tafel inter1trcd Julius threatened her with dccapitati0n if she dared climb the ladder he was working on and there upon she did climb the ladder and laid her fair head Oll> one of it's rounds and told him to carry out his threat She said he beat her fingers with his hammer and pinched and jabbed her with |; beard until she WaS exhausted and would"have fallen off the ladder had not assistance come to her. She was Jllen tWentN-four feet in the air
 Dr Callahan testified to treating the woman fer faintne- and got into a Tow with Attorney Root over the pronuncia- tion of the word ''Syncope." which is the medical word fer faintnesS. Mr It0ot got the doctor to admit that his name is not on the list of the state board of health in New Haven, and f ln thnf ,y-0r1I1 hn on that list with his consent. The law which required physicians to have their names on the list was fool law. unjust and, well. the doctor could not find q term strong enough to suit his frame of mind. On leaving the stand he said the law. or those who made it, WCTC aware of the nonsense of it and they dHrCd not interfere With him for not having his name on it.' Mir Root said it was queer why the law required all doctors to have their names on this list and vel here was one who openly dcfiCd it to interfere with him for not complying with it.
 This passage at arms heinz OYCr. the case was returned tC and it was shown that the complainant after being rc- moved from the ladder proceeded to chop down the defendants house and AoAAO
 The court saw it was one of those cases that should not have been brought into court that it was mat ter more for d civil than q criminal court and suspended sentence.
 Edward DeVenE was charged with | breach of the peace, that iS insulting young married WOman In the words | of tllc prosecutor, Dcveny has the foul 1 est tongue in town and the langua Se he used towards the young married woman was so nasty that she refused to come to court to testify against him. Court therefore had to continue | the case.
 A complaint against William Stokes | for disturbing the peace of his family | for thirty days The Stokes live at 2l | North Leonard street.
 Five complains for theft were pro 1 fcrred against Samuel Berg. and the
 cases were adjourned to Monday. l II is claimed that Berg ! stole q number of watches from the | factory of the New England Watch | company and sold them to Samuel 1 ScNnt erer, a matchmaker Cn south l Main street.