The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-07
MANY PLEAD GUILTY
Superior Court, Criminal Side, Opened With Numerous
 Burglary Gases.
BOY PRISONERS GALORE
ehcchnu Murder Casc Not Called Defendants In It Have Changed
 Their Defense.

Several old mon md young boys pleaded guilty to burglary at the open ing Of the october term of the superior court criminal side, before Judge cur tis, yesterday afternoon Most of them were not sentenced but win be today
 George Fiske was sentenced to from one to three years for burglarizing a house in Branford and stealing rugs He pleaded not guilty at first He s man wcl over 30 years of age
 Wilbur Graves boy of IS pleaded guilty to charges of assault. theft from the person, and burglary, hut sentence was, deferred
 George Darrov. man about 60, pleaded guilty Co several counts Of burglary He will be sentenced today
 Frederick Bell, IS years of age, and Frank Brown, 21, both colored were sentenced to year in jail apiece When asked hlg age Bell testified that he was born the 23d of last month The court Easpnd at this evidence of rapid growth Both had pleaded not guilty 10 burglary in Mcrlden
 James pwyer was found due for six months for theft of eight chickens. to which he pleaded guilty
 There were two prisoners out on bail who did not appear in court and hence their bonds were forfeited They are Margaret Bass. charged with the theft of s3O from Michael Marsono in con junction with Jennie Smith, who pied not guilty, and Nincenzo Masari charged with assault and breach of tho peace.
 Tho ease of Raffaele Carfaro md Giuseppe Campaguon, charged pith the murder uf George Sheehan on August lj, was not called Pleas of not guilty had already been filed It has been stated by the police that tho Italians were on the hunt for thieves who had been raiding melon patches in the vicinity Of tho scene of the rnur- der but It was suthoritalively stated yesterday that both Cartaro and Cam pagnolo will confess that instead of ha. Ing on the hunt for thieves trey were doing the thiovlng themselves
 Tho story which tho defense will fell is that sheohan the victim. and Miss Bessie Lewis, his flancee, were sitting near 2 hedge on the roadway near tho spot where the killing occurred The accused appeared suddenly and Shee- han got into m argument with them
 
 crafty believed that tho two Italians were on tho lookout for melon thieves That was tho substance of the story they told nrst They said they hus- nected Sheehan of getting away with some of the fruit of tho fields In that neghborhood That they will confess 10 theft on tho witness stand ia one of the surprises of tho ease. Attorney Fitzgerald of Fitzgerald and Walsh has been retained Co act as leading counsel in the case
 Patrick Dorney was sentenced 10 one year for burglary He pleaded guilty 10 entering a store in Ansonia and steal Ing plumbers supplies brass fittings and other things Two others with him were not appreheuded, but ne assured States Attorney Williams that he would turn states evidence against them when they were,
 John stone, Joseph Robinson, Frad- eriek Reed Joseph Tomaloonla, Will liam RucItmsr, colored man With gray hair and beard, about s5 years old. and William 'HroRn all enisrs4 pleas of guilty to burglary char@es. but sentence was deferred
 A boy ls, William Hamilton, pd zig cd his guilt iu the Edward Bsssstt store burglary last July au1 wlll le senteuced today Another boy of the samo age admitted hurglarzlng the a & Adams store and several other places His sentence also was deferred
 A case of attempt to kill with 8 re- volyer was down against Pasquela Con