Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-23
POLICE COURT Do1NGs
Charles Hoyt Held Under Bonds for
 His Escapade Last Night.

Charles Hoyt Held Under Bonds for
 His Escapade Last Night.
 Miss Grace Stewart, employed in the Apothecarfes' Hall, when going home last night was assaulted by man near the corner of Farm and North Main streets. It was about 10 o'clock and the place was quite dark. A man, tall and wearing glasses, so far as she could recall. in the excitement of the time, ran out of the shadow and grab bed her around the waist with one hand while with the other he tried to gag her with something soft. She screamed and the man ran away and in short time a man in shirt sleeves and Policeman Myers appeared and ran after the fleeing man Officer Myers saw the man running away from the direction where Miss Stewart stood and she pointed toward him. The police man ran after the fellow down North Vine street. The south end of that street is closed and the man had to turn back. When he approached the crowd that was closing in upon him he asked "Well. where he is her" as though he had been searching for the man for whom everybody was looking. Policeman Myers took the man into custody and asked Miss Stewart to iden- tify him, but she could not do this. She was on the verge of mysteries Her umbrella and eyeglasses had fallen to the ground. Policeman Myers never lost sight of the man from the time Miss Stewart pointed toward him until he was captured. He gave a long chase and would undoubtedly have es- capped had not Vine street been closed at the south end The man arrested said in the city court to-day before Judge Burpee, that his name was Charles Hoyt, employed | by the Waterbury Buckle company, and that he had been drinking little too much" last night and, knowing that his folks would not like to see 1 him in that state he decided to stay out l late. He took a long walk from North Main street around the north end and about 9:3O or later, found himself in the vicinity of the alleged assault about the time 1t took place He said he heard the uproar and that he ran like the others in the crowd and that Miss Stewart did not recognize him as the man who had assaulted her. The officers evidence was more conclusive of the mans guilt than the mans own evidence pointed toward his inno- cense. Prosecutor Durant. remarking on the state of the mans clothing, said he would have charged him with at temped rape, but doubted if a jury would find him guilty of such crime. Judge Burpee, however, thought 1t was case for jury and advised changing the complaint to attempted rape, and upon that charge Hoyt was bound over to the superior court under bohd of $60O.
 Seven boys, some of them very small boys, named Thomas Dwyer, William I Cahill Thomas Butler Harry Butler l George Manion. Edward Bowling and l Thomas Mulvaney were charged with breach of the peace in interfering with Otto Phelps an electric light trimmer last Sunday The boys live in the north end The cases were continued thirty days without trial.
 Fred Preston acted as peacemaker in a row on North Him street yesterday afternoon between Thomas Thalei and young man whose name is un- known. Preston got few blows, but I Thaler got black eye and q fine of $15 and costs out of it.