The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-22
JAIL SENTENCES
 IN MOST CASES
Judge Reed Has Many Of
 !. lenders, on Appeal, Be fore His Court

Ekpecting to be sent to jail for one year at least. but getting off with thirty days, was the pleasing sur prise handed to Michael J. Sullivan of this city, in the Criminal Superior court yesterday afternoon. Sullivan, a coal shoveler. has been addicted to drink. When he Is bereft of h-s senses, he has no control of his hands. pick ing up everything that is not tied down. During the erection of the Jewieh Temple in Park avenue, Sul- iivan purioined carpenter tools which he pawned- He was arrested and as tt was his third offense he was bound over to the Superior court. The penal ty for third offense at theft can be not more than three years in States lprison- The maximum for one offense Reed after hearing from Sullivan that he would never appear before judge again. sentenced him to 30 days. Sul- livau WAS over jubilant when the sen- rence was announced to him, he told his attorney that he was willing to serve a year to be saved from States prison
 Granville Stewart, a waiter at the i, University club charged with theft, plead guilty, but would not accept counsel by assignment. Stewart was arrested for the theft of S81 from the pocket of Attorney Sanford Stod- dard at the club. The club members had been missing money from their coats which had been left in the club lockers. Officer Ladd of the police force was detailed to corral the thief. He secreted himself in a locker, and detected Stewart going through At torney Stoddard's pocket and ab- stracting a roll of bills. Before he could count the green backs Ladd was at his side. There was $S1 in the roll. but 1t was Stewards intention to slip off $1o and let it go at that. The court sentenced him to jail for six months
 Angelo Percy, aged IT, was given nine months in jail, but sentence was suspended and the youth was placed in charge of the probation officer Percy on the afternoon of Dec. 22 ston and William K. Mix in the North End and was captured by MT. King ston. His plea was that on the day of the house breaking there was no work at his shop. He with two other youths drank more whiskey than court that the boy was the support of his mother. while his employers sent communication to the states attorney stating that his record had always been very good.
 Henry B. Allen, also of this city,
 
 pension of sentence. Allen was given a year in jail for theft. but will in- stead be in charge of the probation officer Allen, aged g. secured em- ployment last fall in Trumbull. He stole a watch and some rings from the wife of his employer and ran away as far as Chicago. Life as q fugitive from justice wore on him. He returned to this state and arriv- ing in New Haven gave himself up to the first police officer he met. A number of persons interested them selves in his case, and as he desired to live a righteous life, the sentence was suspended.
 John Goodwin of this city will "do'' six months in North avenue for statutory burglary. Goodwin with one Reynolds on the evening of Jan. IT overheard a conversation in Kei- ley's saloon in Water street that there was $2,000 in the safe. Both of them put their heads together and decided that such amount was too much 10 hold in one safe at one time. After closing time they broke into the sa- loon- They emptied a glass contain ing $10 in change. Then they went for the safe. Their tools were not mp to the mark, and the attempt was