The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-17
GIRLS DOT so SMALL HE WOULDN'T WED Then She Wouldn't Wed and Suitor Slashed Her
 In Face SWIhDLER BEGINS JAIL TERM Court Settles Disposition of Reward Claimed By
 Two Persons
SWINDLER BEGINS JAIL TERM

In the criminal Superior court today
 Judge Gager sentenced Dominic Caro- 1 tenuto of Shelton to not more than l five nor less than four years in States
 prison for assault with intent to kill
 also of Shelton Carotenuto asked
 the girls parents how much money
 they would settle upon her. He did
 not think the. amount was sufficient
 and broke the enga cement. He later had a change of mind. The girl call- ed him "a dirty pig.'
 l The next morning as she was going l to work with her sisters she was at tackled by her rejected sutton, who with drawn knife slaShed the girl a num- | Der of times on the face, with the evil | dent purpose to disf1gure her. He | plead guilty to the charge In the court at the time of the passing of | the sentence was the mother of the young man. who when she was in formed of the penalty. tainted in the court room. The heart broken mother 1 was carried from the court room to the open air, where she was revived by the court attendants. Thee pris- Oner, seeing his mothers plight, could | not restrain himself for crying
 The court had to deal with a pecu- | liar case. that of Joseph Kotwica of Stamford, who plead guilty of steal- | ing poultry and also of assault with l year-old son, Martin. broke into the | hen house of Horace Belinger, in | Stamford
 Bellinger in Stamford. The propri- etor arrested both. The father and son put up a fight, during which a knife was drawn by the elder thief Bellinger being cut in several places | The son aided his father in beating 1 up Bellinger. It was evident to the 1 court that there were no chickens l stolen. and that Bellinger had used | little too much force in arresting the | two. The court nolled the theft 1 charge, but gave the father not less
 than three Or more than five years
 in state prison on the other charge | The youth the court placed in charge | of Probation officer Robert A. Ross, of Stamford and appointed Attorney
 Homer s. Cummings his guardian. Hector Mclean, who was connected
 with Walter s. Quimby both of Wor-
 cester. Mass, in the feecing of Mrs. 1 G. A. Benwell of Gilbert street of her property, was haled before the court
 this morning. The stay of proceedings | pending his appeal to the Supreme | Court of Errors was removed and the sentence of one year in jail again | placed against him, he beginning to serve his time out today.
 | While Mclean was in jail. this | morning, he was served with a war 1 rant by Inspector Flaherty of Fitch l burg, Mass, where ne is wanted for l forgery. It is stated that under the
 name of Spain he forged a check for
 S1,760 Quimby is now in the County 1 Jail. His bondSman, fearing that he
 would attempt to skip, had him brought back on bond piece
 l At the request of States Attorney JudsOn, the case of Leveritt Griggs 1 the son of the Vassar college profes- l sor, was reopened this morning. The states attorney had become inform
 ed by John J. Griggs, the father of
 the youth, that his bail of $500 had | been forfeited through a mistake. The
 youth will be dealt with leniently | Young Griggs with Miss Helen Me- 1 Lean of Poughkeepsie, elOped to Dan | bury where they were married l Griggs swOre that he was 21 years of i age, but is really IS.
 John EVartS of NeWtoWn, before the
 court on the charge of non-support | had his ease continued till the Sep tenn ber-ter of that tribunal, and was | placed in charge of William c. John | son of NeWtOWn as probation officer There was little contest before ! the court over who should get the l $50 reward offered by the state for | the arrest of Christopher Smith of 1 this city for horse theft. Both George l Gillette of Easton, and Charles Krug-