The Press., 1905-04-12
Superior Court

ing their actions were reported I'M
favorable, and were rejected.
Superior Court ID
A short calendar session of the SUI
perior court was held at Rockville on
Friday by Judge Robinson. Argu-
ments were heard on the application
of A. M. Young for the appointment
of q permanent receiver for the Stat
ford Springs Electric Light and Gas
company. Lawyer John W. Banks
of the law firm of Paige, Banks &
Kinks, appeared for the plaintiff.
Judge Robinson fixed Tuesday, April
IS, as a day to hear the creditors and
stockholders upon the" matter. The
case of Avis Jessberger vs.. Fred
Gruckenberger, a motion for non-suit
for want of bill of particulars, was
stricken from the short calendar, as
the bill had been filed. These cases
were continued: Nellie A. Benzinger
VS.. Charles A. Benzinger, George W..
Kramer vs.. Minnie Kramer, and
Clearence r. Sadd VS.. Jennie @. Hills.
A long list of jurors has been drawn
because of the Sherrie murder trial.
The following have been summoned
to appear Wednesday morning: Toll
land, George W. Lansing, Jesse Dear
don, John S. Abbott, Joseph Ward ;
Andover, F. Willard Smith, Edwin
Thurber, Asel P. Lathrop; Bolton,
Charles N. Loomis, Jr., Clemen M.
Sumner, William G. White, Fred
Coleman; Columbia, James P. Little,
Daniel F. Tucker, Frank Potter. John
W. Fuller; Coventry, Perkins L..
Lathrop, Winfield S. Vinton, Louis
U. Phillips, William F. Wood, Ar
thur L. Reed, Marvin P. Coleman
Ellington, John T. Mcknight, Francis
Pinney, Charles A. Thompson, Otis
Snow; Hebron, Charles D. Way,
Henry A. Spafard, Alfred L. Bissell,
William J. Werner; Mansfield, Clar-
ence H. Savage, Thomas M. Ross, l..
J. Storrs, George H. Baker, Fred M.
Chadwick, George H. Andrews; Stat
ford, William R. Preble, James M.
Lord, Charles D. Glazier, Otis Chap
man, Frank q. Fairfield, Bert T.
Eaton, Francis Patten, Orrin M.
Brown, John M. Larned, Albert 9.
Eaton, Henry G. Thresher, Henry o.
Butterfeld, Wallace T. Jones, John
A. Nichols; Union, D. M. Newell,
Francis L. Upham, Fred J. Aldrich,
R. E. Webster; Vernon, James Fitz-
gerald, Edwin G. Butler, George R.
Billings, James A. Carroll, James
Campbell, Harry T. Miner, Edwin A.
Newton, G. G. Tillinghast, Fred W.
Bradley, H. L. Noble, Joseph E.
Cheetham, E. H. Preston, George M.
Cox; Wellington, William o. Ed
redge, William E. Batty, J. C.Sparks
and William Brownlee.
On Tuesday Sherrie, accused of the
Somersville murder, was taken to
Rockville from Holland by Sheriff
Dickinson about noon, and lodged in
the steel cage in the city hall. At
a conference, at which counsel for the
state and accused we're both present,
Judge Robinson assigned Hugh O'Fla =
herty as senior counsel for the prison
er. Upon opening of court the grand
jury we're sworn and charged by the
judge, after which they retired and
later brought in true bill charging
the accused with murder in the first
degree. The following served on the
grand jury: J. P. Root, Frank A.
Newman of Tolland, William B..
Sprague, Edward M. Yeomans of An
dover, Marvin W. Howard of Bolton,
Andrew Kingsbury, Fred Chase of
Coventry, Robert E. Hyde, John H.
Lynch of Ellington, Frank Willard,
Calvin S. Wilcox of Mansfield, Henry
@. Wheeler, Charles Warren of Stat
ford, John E. Fisk, Minor H. White
of Vernon, William F. Essex, James
Lawrence of Wilmington, John H.
Buell. of Hebron. The judge charged
the jury and they retired to the G. A.
r. hall, opposite the court room.
While the grand jury we're out the
chicken cases were disposed of. VIM.
Dunden, Henry Huden, Samuel Hunt,
Rose Basini and Thomas Fitzpatrick,
all charged with theft of poultry,
were put TO plea. Hidden and Hunt
were represented by Attorney R. H.
Fisk, and Rose Basini and Fitzpatrick
by W. H. Reed. All the accused
plead guilty, and Dunden was senten-
ced to Jail for seven months and order
ed to pay a fine of $40 and costs,
Huden was fined 800, Fitzpatrick
sent to Jail for so days, and Hunt and
the Basini woman were sent to Toll
land for 40 days each.
The Sherrie trial will be opened to-
day and the jury impaneled.