Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-27
POLICE COURT DoINGs.
Sentence Suspended on Man Found
 Guilty of Assault

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 City court was long and laughapie to-day. 1t has been some time slllce a session like it has been held. Judge Cowell presided. X pale, slckly looA- ing young man, who gave his name as Leonard Curley, aged 24, was tne source of all the fun He was charged with having assaulted Jacob LenG- hardt or Lombard last night Lolh- bard said he had been at meeting Ill Hellmann hall on Grand street and had a finger of whiskey and three peers during but not at the meeting. on lis way home he was accosted by Curley, who tried to sell him a cheap ring which looked good in the electric Ilglt. and because he refused to buy Curley struck him. Judge Lowe, counsel for Curley. inquired minutely as to Lom- bard's capacity for drink.
 How many beers would make you drunk asked the judge.
 ..Oh. I don't know. said Lombard. q guess I couldn't count them
 And I don't suppose l could either. put in the judge, and everybody laughed outright. Lombard could not say how many beers would make him feel in that condition hilariousiy known as feeling glorious" Lom- bard. continuing, said q crowd gathered and a black man told him to fly. At this a .'black man" in the dock named Amrose Perrow, moved uneasily in his seat. Lombard could not recognize the black man and said that while they all looked alike to him he could easily tell black man from q white man. Lombard did not reply to the al- legged blow because. said he, T had money in my pockets and I looked out fer that
 Curley then took the stand and with what seemed q palsied hand uplifted, took the oath. He seemed to be i'll bad way and the court thought he looked like one on the verge Of the tremens. He admitted striking Lom- bard in self-defense, and said he could moi strike hard because he is very sick with pleurisy. A box of rings, cheap affairs. Attorney Durant said they cost a cent dozen, he was showing a friend. when the complainant came along and put his oar in Lombard was drunk then. At this point Prose cutor Durant said he could show that instead of Curley being sick with pleurisy he was sick from the effects
 
 could not be because it was some time since he used that drug. A note found in his pocketboolx would prove his words, he contended. CurIey said he was steamboat cook and he bought the box of rings in New York for his cousins. The prosecutor said he could prove this statement false, but the court interfered. PeTrow was sworn and he showed he had acted as Curlev's friend. He got along all right. He was hero until the prosecutor asked him how long it was since he was up for theft Perrow denied the charge, but his record was against him. A year and q half ago lie was sent down for being drunk. He did nof know how long he was down" but he recalled that he was there q few Sundays. for he we'll remembered going to church in jail Even somber Judge Cowell laughed at this recollection. Then Judge Lowe began his argument and holding up Curley's pocketbook, concluded that it was not fair for thei prosecutor to take up that mattx mat was for him to do. but he wfpx&gi not go through the pocketbook until he would finish in court. And again the whole room laughed. The court said Curley needed medical treatment more than jail treatment. and found him guilty of the charge. but suspend cd sentence. Curley lives in Bridge port with his grandmother.
 Joseph Mcdonald was fined S5 and costs for intoxication, and Ambrose Perrow 8 and costs.
 John MeGovern was fined S and costs for fntoxication and s10 and costs for resistance. He came out of jail only yesterday.
 Cassimir Ezeanskas was fined S. without costs for assaulting Fabian Stein.