The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-24
CITY COURT-CIvIL SIDE.

I
 In the city court civil side yesterday
 the long drawn out suit of Charles E. | Brown, of Artizan street, against
 Charles E. Woodward to recover on a
 note for $490 given December 29, 1898, was heard before Judge Bishop and a
 jury. The note was given by Flora H.. l Woodward, wife of the defendant and
 Woodward claims that the note was a | forgery. The suit is a companion to
 the one recently brought by the Me chanics' bank to recover on a similar
 note.
 Timothy Manning keeps boarding | house at 13 Summer street, and one of his boarders is James Heaphy. Heaphy was arrested Saturday night on com- plaint of Manning and charged with breach of the peace. According to Man- ning's own story told in the police
 court yesterday morning Heaphy came home drunk and Manning sailed into him, and then had him arrested, there by getting ahead of the boarder. Judge Dow discharged Heaphy when he
 heard this.
 Giovanni Vita, the proprietor of pop
 corn stand, who was arrested Saturday
 night for maintaining stand on the
 street and for resistance pleaded not
 guilty in the city court and had a
 lawyer to fight his case. After taking a little evidence the case was continued
 to Friday.
 The Arabian who gave the name of
 John Smith when arrested Saturday night for maintaining a stand on the street without license, was advised to get out of town as soon as possible by Judge Dow The man was selling the rats which operated or did not operate by means of a string. He said he had come from New York to work the town. He left this noon.
 Charles Fenn, the driver for the New England Dairy company, who was ar rested on December 14 for embezzle- ment of s10O from the concern, pleaded guilty to the charge in the city court and was fined $50 and sentenced to four months in jail. It was alleged that he made collections and failed to return to the company. The stealing covered a period of six months.
 Charles White, who said he was varnisher, employed by the Boston Blackboard company, and Albert A. Nourse, who says he works in Meriden, were charged with drunkenness and begging in the city court yesterday morning. They visited the store of Leonard Bostwick Saturday night and asked for money for a nights lodging, and Mr. Bostwick had them arrested.
 White begged that if he were treated leniently he would take the pledge, and not twithstanding his record he has in the police books Judge Dow gave him another chance and suspended judgment in both cases. Nourse was sent to jail for ten days because of his record which covers nearly all the | children to theft.
 John Morse of this city the ex- Methodist minister known here through an arson matter with which he was connected in 1896, and who has been locked up here on charge of en- bezzlement with a sentence of 10 years in state prison and also a ten thousand dollar fine staring him in the face has settled his case with the authorities.
 The case has just been nolled by City Attorney Webb because while the taking of the money was not denied. the defense was that the state could not show the necessary "intent" in the matter.
 Since Morse's latest appearance here lis counsel, Alcorn and Smith, have set ID the defense that the money of Miss 3unnells which is missing was in Morse's own personal bank account and renee was garnisheed in law suit and aken. This was where the money vent and the defense claims there was 10 intent on Morse's part to embezzle t. He had never been able to set 1e with his bondsman, he declared.
 This view of the matter was present d to the city attorney, who, after MT. Baldwin was made good" and costs of 130 had been paid, nolled the case {