Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19
Would Allow No Outbursts Oi
 Applause in Court.
vANAssE FOUND GUILTY, ALSO

of the HOur-ALtOrney heAoSS ASA7 ed for Nolle in Case of William Seery-Michael Breen Found Guilty Ryan and Hartford Go to State Pris-
 on Yesterday Reilly Fined $25 and Costs for Placing Torpedo on the Track
 | It did not take the jury in the case of the state against Michael Breen long l to decide whether or not he was guilty. l This case was heard in the superior court yesterday before Judge Elmer. | It was the first of the half dozen cases 1 for stoning the trolley cars. Notwith- standing that Breen's counsel, Attorney
 Cassidy, put up an able and eloquent plea, the jury found him guilty on both counts after deliberation lasting l twenty minutes Sentence was de- 1 ferred.
 James Reynolds, charged with break | ing into Alderman Stanley's house on Division street last sunday morning, changed his plea to guilty. Attorney Richmond, his counsel, stated that the
 man was deeply intoxicated and un-
 
 at the time. He was never before
 charged with any serious offense. He has been all his life in this city and
 some years ago received fall wnlch he believed injured his head. Even in the opinion of Attorney Kellogg it was l a peculiar case, for he could not under stand why Reynolds should return to the house few minutes after he was l elected the first time he effected an en- trance. Reynolds has borne the repu- tatton of harmless citizen. He was sentenced to one year in jail.
 Daniel O'COnnor of Naugatuck also
 changed his pic" to guilty He was charged with attempted rape. By agreement of counsel it was understood that if O'Connor changed his plea he should be dealt with leniently. Attor- ney Kennedy represented him. Assist
 ant State Attorney Kellogg recommend ed an 1ndeterminate sentence of not more than six and not less than four years in the state prison and the court l so ordered.
 The next case was against Patrick | DWyer, who escaped the Boers bullets
 only to come here and get himself into
 most serious trouble. He was charged
 with attempted rape on a little girl liy- ing on Washington street. MT Kellogg
 stated that while he was confident he
 could prove the case, still he was con- tent to let it go and change the com
 plaint to common assault, more for the sake of the little girl and her mother than for the prisoner. The girls
 mother told him she could not endure another examination on the witness stand and the publicity that would at tend it. He thought a heavy sentence should be imposed. a fine of $500 and a | year in jail was the maximum. Attor- ney Phelan for the prisoner, replied that the case was not as bad as it was painted. Dwyer was advised against l going to the house of the child's mother 1 to board by a man who had boarded l there. He was sure to get into trou- | ble, he was told; but the prisoner hav- l ing known the woman and her friends l in tho old country, thought her house
 should be the best he could go to when he came here a stranger. almost direct l from the battle fields of the Transvaal. 1 He has wife and four children in the
 old country waiting for him to send
 for them. "Then why did he plead
 guilty if he is innocentR'' asked Judge
 Elmer sharply. T am inclined to take l the state atorney's view of this. The
 sentence is a fine of $25 and costs and
 one year in jail."
 Patrick Hartford, Richard Clark and
 Bernard Doyle. who were brought to l the court on a bench warrant from the
 city court, pleaded not guilty to bur l glarizing M J. Daly's shop.
 I Attorney Kellogg then took up the
 case against William seery, charged
 with displacing , trolley wire on East
 Main street, shutting off the current from the cars. MT Kellogg stated that
 he could hardly prove his case. Early
 in the evening of the alleged offense the current was turned off from a
 switch box on 3 pole, and the accused.
 who was very drunk, informed Officer \ Keegan that he knew what the trouble
 was. This aroused the officers sus-
 picions and he kept an eye on Seery.
 The current was turned subsequently. Later the officer saw Seery descending l from the pole on which the switch box | is placed and took him into custody. ] The current was not then interfered with and the cars were running. This was the trouble with the case. MT I Kellogg greatly doubted that he could
 connect Seery's descent from the pole
 with the turning off of the current l earlier in the evening. So far as he
 knew there was no law making it a misdemeanor to climb pole owned by
 the trolley company. still he thought it l would be better for everybody to let them alone. On these grounds, fhere- I fore he did not think he could prove his case and deemed it advisable to nolle it. The court approved of this
 step and it was so ordered. Court then adjourned.
 The case against Joseph Vanasse
 was put on this morning. Nanasse was { defended by Attorney Root. He was l charged with breach of the peace on
 two counts on February 3. This was
 another of the trolley cases.
 Charles l.. Wolfe, captain of Go A,
 First regiment testified that in response
 to a command from Colonel Schulze l he went to Naugatuck with his com- pany on the night in question about F o'clock to suppress a disturbance. On the return trip, near City corners q window in the car he was in was brok- en and witness saw three men stand ing on the road on the side the car was