Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-14
POLICE COURT DoINGs
Owners of Dogs Were Plentiful Be-
 fore Judge Burpee.

fore Judge Burpee.
 Dogs are still the dominating feature in the city court They hold the right of eminent domain there, appar- entity. Judge Burpee to-day gave them precedence over all other mat ters, even delaying the usual weekly session of the civil side to dispose of ltheir cases. Surely this Is the day of the dog. The evidence In one is about the evidence in all the other cases. Shifting the scene from one place to the other. the facts in one are the facts in all, with Officers J. Mccarthy and Hickey as the prime movers. Almost all the evidence in the eases heard to- day was acoumu ted during the warm days of the primary campaign, when most men had politics breaking out all over them, and had no time to devote to their dogs, but left them to provide for themselves or tied them up in the yard and thereby laid evidence for the coming officers. With wonderful ra- pidity the officers moved from place to place, for in the cases that were heard this morning 1t was shown they were in Town Plot, Golden Hill and the Klondike.
 Following are the cases that were disposed of for $5 each: Tony Fasso, William Stance Edgewood; Fred Ole son, Watertown road; Donate Das- tasso. Cassidy avenue; Michael Igo, Middlebury road; Peter Stanitis, Mid dlebury road; ;Matthew Schlitter, Mid d1ebury road; John Mourant, Hotchkiss street. J. E. Leopard. Cornelius Re gan, George Packett. James McCul- lough, John Rankin, James Coer, Ed ward Martando, Ludger Leblance, H. s. Miller, George F. Held, E. B. Green. and William Jenkins settled for $7 each as they failed to appear in court yesterday morning. Tn some cases the costs were added and others were placed on proba tion. One man said he did not have his dog licensed be- cause he could not afford the money. Burnham plant and some three months ago had to give up on account of ill., ness and has been unable to find work since. He said he has not funds enough to support his family, not to speak of licensing a dog.
 The case of James McEvoy of Gold en Hill was the most singular of all. This man denied having had any dogs on his premises since his home was burned some three months ago He keeps rabbits and he would like to know how anyone keeping rabbits could keep dogs All the evidence the officers had against him was substan- tially hearsay. They never saw the man about the premises. but they saw two dogs there, one tied up. and Mrs McEvoy adn}itted they were not H. censed. One of the officers testified that McEvoy was pointed out to, him the day of the primaries as the owner Of the. dogs. An attempt was made to show that McEvoy moved the dogs out to relative in Prospect, but he denied this. The case was so inter- esting and had such peculiar features that 1t was adjourned to tomorrow morning to give the state time to pro- cure more evidence. and to see if Me Evoy has perjured himself in denying he keeps any dogs or has kept any since the destruction of his home. A complaint against Nathan Silver man for non-support was continued for thirty days, an agreement having been reached by which Mrs Silverman will be given an allowance
 Cases against James Cass. A. W Greenbaugh William Scott and Miles Booth for keeping dogs were contin- ued to tomorrow morning, the accused not having been present.