Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-14
POLICE COURT DOINCS
Cheer Moore Said Dstnan Warned .
 a Saloonkseper.

A case of nature probably never
 heard before in Waterbury was intro duced this morning among the plain
 drunks and breaches of the peace l that make up the. routine business of
 the city court day after day
 Patrick Degnan and Officer Moore
 were the principals, the latter being I the complainant and the former the accused. Degnan was charged with 1 violating a city ordinance by prevent 1 ing the arrest of a person under sus- i picion of having violated the law. 1 Officer Moore testified that yester- I day morning about 9 o'clock he nad his business eye on certain saloon on | Scoyill street. the back entrance to l which is situated on Brook street. He
 was going up an alleyway on Brook l street leading to this entrance When 1 he saw Degnan come out of place l near by and sit on the steps. Two or 1 three men were ahead of the officer. 1 When Degnan saw the officer he ran 1 down the alleyway and onto Scovlil street and tapped at the window of the 1 saloon. and the officer arrested him as 1 he was coming back. It transplfed 1 that the saloon in question was HUT l ley X Sullivans.
 Degnan had story to tell. He nas been twenty-eight years in the city l and was never before arrested. lie
 does not know Hurley or Sullivan TO speak to and is employed in a restauf- ant near by. It was very hot Ill the 1 kitchen yesterday morning about J o'clock and he sat on the step to cool ba tha off p0fn Q 1 toward the rear entrance of the saloon he went around to the front ana look- ed through the window to see ii there l were any arrests made. He had never heard that the saloon did a sunday 1 business. and he has not been i'll II III a year. and he did not think there was anybody there yesterday morning, ! but curiosity prompted him to look In. He was fined S1O and costs.
 Detectives Dodds. Kennaugh and Keegan. with Officers Myers. Cole santo and Cutting raiGed a house on Bunker Hill Saturday evening ana ar rested Antonio Calabrino as the keep CT and Rose and Augustine Marino as freq1lenters. Calabrino settled tor soa and the others for S10 each.
 Patrick Collins insisted he was so- her Saturday evening when OHcer Flaherty arrested him. Judge Peasley thought otherwise and gave him thirty
 days iii jail. Collins probation record was decidedly against him. Edward
 Dwyer was picked up by Ofncer
 Brickel yesterday morning on Grown street. He was also given thirty days in iail Maurice Collins went dow" the road for the same period for tue same offense.
 John Galway. lad of IT, was fined 8 for making trouble in Hamilton park Saturday. Officer Cutting saiu the boy was one of a gang that was making things warm for the keeper of the park.
 Peter Kelly was fined S1 for va
 crancy. He was found in the Tracy
 Bros yard yesterday morning sleep inc the sleep of the weary under vart'
 ous bags of comfortable shayings. Elmer Halstead. painter. was sup
 ported iN his wife all last winter and when spring opened up and work
 came on Halstead turned in to enjoy
 himself with his weekly earnings.
 Once he struck his wife and this morn- inc at 1 o'clock when he became frac- tious. she. remembering that blow, got afraid of him and had him arrested. Halsfead did not deny his wife's ac- cusation and asked for clemency. He was not given any for he was fined S5 and costs for intoxication and given
 ion days in iail for breach of the ppapp