Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-29
TUE CITY COURT
Mother and Wife Confronted
 Prisoner This Morning.

very near involving Mrs Martha Pu- luski's liberty with the law this morning. Her son. Raymond, who seemed to be somewhat above the grade of his countrymen that fur nishes business for the city court, was charged with breach of the I peace. The Puluskis live on Vine ! street. If Puluski dressed hims alt to make an impression he succeed ca. Though comparatively short time In the country he spoke its language very well, and so did his wife.
 Mrs Puluski, Jr, with a mite of baby in her arms and two others very nicely dressed and quite busy on two sticks of candy, hung onto her skirts. The sum and substance ! or her testimony was that when her husband is in drink he "gets fits and he smashes things and scares the wits out. of her and the chil- dren.
 He won't give her sufficient mon- ey to run the house as she thinks it ought to be run and sometimes she mas It necessary to do sewing or washing to make ends meet. She worked In shop for some time fol>. lowing her marriage and she lost the greater part of three fingers of her left hand in machine. She had some difficulty in keeping from bursting into tears while she was telling this.
 Puluski had day and date for every a had <xi, i, .. some time back. He said that on a certain Thursday lately he gave her $42 and later in the same day he gave her $22 more, But it trans- pired that he had merely saved the S42. The prosecutors idea in ask ing him why he gave his wife both sums of money on the one day in. stead of giving them to her in one sum was to show that Puluski is a gambler. but the man parried the question and it was not presesd.
 Puluskf tried to turn. the tables on his wife by,saying 1t vas she who got Into tempers and smashed things. Then he called upon his mother to back him up in these statements. His mother was unable to speak only in Polish and Puluski would not pay for an interpreter at first. Seeing this would cause him to lose ground he finally agreed to pay Benjamin Witkowski s1 for interpreting. Then accused's moth- CT took the stand but she refused to take the oath, and she was not al- lowed to testify. But she persisted Tn speaking in her own language and nothing could stop her. She became terribly excited and had to be removed from the room. She came back, however. and forced her way to her son in the dock. There was more noise and excitement and the woman again left the room, this time making threatening gestures to- ward her daughter-in-law and evil dently vowing all kinds of yen- geance on her. Once more the now furious woman got back into the court room and again pressed her way toward the dock.
 Captain Bannon and Doorman Mates flung themselves between her and her son and the hearing of case had to be suspended until or der was restored. Mrs Puluski al length became so excited that Ban non and Mates seized her and be. fore she knew what had happened she was hustled out of the room and into the cell corridor in the lookup. There she was kept few minutes, after which she was passed out to liberty again through the station house.
 Her son was committed to jail for 10 days. All kinds or trouble are expected to take place when she meets with her daughter-in-law.
 According to the statement una Prosecutor Meigs in the city court this morning the hard times were re- sponsible for driving Mrs Annie Compresse to steal a quantity of coal from a railroad car last evening. She was fined s1 and costs.
 A case against Peter Mcdonald for theft of chicken worth s1 was continued to Monday for further in, vestigation. He was also charged with intoxlcation and his ball was fixed at $500 on the charge of theft and s100 on the charge of drunken ness.
 Sentence was suspended in the case of Peter Hoar. also charged with intoxication. His large family saved him.
 John G. Hartnett was fined s5 and costs for intoxication.
 Maria Scozzafava and Esther Meraiti of 1920 East Main street had dispute over the last named woman dusting rugs over the other womanis clothlines. The evidence was that Mrs Scozzafava bit the oth- CT woman on the arm and hit her with stick. a week ago last Thurs day. Mrs Scozzafava was found not guilty and the other woman was put on probation to pay fine of SIC and costs.