Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-17
JUDGE WHEELERS ADDRESS.
Delivered in Sentencing Domin-
 ico Lobella Yesterday.

Peter Lamoreaux on Trial To-day for
 Attempted Murder of Eis Mother-in-
 Law-C. LeRoy Mitchell Excused as
 a Juror for Holding Views on iEsan-
 ity Question.
 In the superior court yesterday after noon before Judge Wheeler sentenced year in the state prison, nor more than three, for assaulting with intent to kill q fellow workman named Francis Moore in the dipping depart ment of the Scovill Manufacturing company's plant, Judge Wheeler ad- dressed him as follows. through Rocco Mancini, who acted as interpreter:
 .'Lobella, you were treated badly by Moore for quite period of the time you worked in that place with him. You were attacked by Moore on that day-the day of the assault-and after the attack had ceased, smarting under the blows and not receiving the attention from the foreman or assist ant foreman that you thought your complaint deserved, you pursued Moore and as he was leaning over q cupboard you struck him twice with your knife. You went further than you ought to have gone. There was a good deal of excuse for your temper, but you should not have taken the law into your own hands," Sentence was then passed.
 Antonio Atorisi. 1G, and Rocco Cip- riano, 20. charged with assault changed their plea to guilty. Cipri- ano had married Atorisi's sister about two months before the assault took place. The young men got into a dispute and the elder struck the young CT in the face. The latter then ran away, pursued by the other This took place on the railroad tracks in the west end. Atorisi, finding Cipri- ano apparently bent upon catching him turned and fired two sseots at him. Neither shot hit. As it was their first offense. and as the witnesses to the case had flown. and no evidence could be had to substantiate the alleged shooting, both were let off lightly with fine of S10 and costs. which they were allowed twenty days to pay it in.
 The case for attempted murder of his mother-in-law, Kate Franetre. on the evening of June 19 lass. was called galnSt Peter LamOreaux ;Iis mOrni,Ig Senator Kennedy was appointed coun- sel for the accused and Prosecuting Attorney Kellogg was assisted hy Az torney Root. Senator Keaedy boiled the jury. The principal question asked them was had they any prejudice against defense based upon insanity Some of them had and some of them had not One juror. c. LeRoy Mitch ell of Southbury, said it woul1 depend upon whether the insanity was alleged to be in the accused or iL the lawyer This was a strange answer and it caused some quiet amusement MT Mitchell was asked if he meant tile lawyer for the state or tie lawyer for the defense, and if he meant tl,e lat ter what he would have done the ac- cused in such a case. MT Mitchell eN- plained that in such a case he wonli not give the evidence much weight. but if insanity was a family iEhs ri- tance it was one thing. whereas. if tte accused appeared to be nornially con> ducted in the ordinary pursuit of af- fairs and to suddenly dey top insanity he would not put much faith in ,.e fense based on such groua9s. If but ton was missing from the accused coa. and button like the miss ne one was found and fitted the vacant place on the garment, he would give much more attention to that incident than he would to plea of insanity based uron such circumstances. Mir Mitchell was excused
 When the jury was pollnd one place was found vacant, and Louis Ray mond. clerk in the Douglas shoe store on Bank street. was selec-et- for 1t. The case then began. Mrs Virginia Lamoreaux. wife of the a,rnSetl. was sworn. and she had but begun her lcs- timony when Senator Kennedy entert Il an objection on the ground that a wife is. not compelled to testify against her husband only in a case i1 which it IS charged he had done her violence. The objection was overruled and Mrs I.aln- oreauX resumed Her story was to the effect that on June 12 she and her lius- band parted. She sold the furniture and took their four children to her mothers home on Jewelrr street. AL most every day he used t,, meet her on her way from work. at Blake x John
 
 asked her to return to him. On We'd nesday noon she met hfnl as usual, and as before she refuse1 to return to him. He was very angrv and sai1 he would fix her and her mother That was all of tfle woman's tes. 'mony But | the rest of the story is to tho effect | that that evening Lamor .lny. ncensni l and full of bitter anger against his mother-in-law. whom he susnected of 1 having interfered with his wife won't l to Mrs Frenette's house anl fired five shots at her. all of them taking effect. Mrs Frenette survived the affray. 1 Dr Deffendorf of the hosni.al for In sane at Middletown, was ill court for l the state.
 Oswald T.. Lapalme. charged with
 forgery on four counts. pleaded guilty to one count and the other three were nolled. He will be sentenced later.