Putnam patriot., 1911-07-07
City C0urt...FulIer Judge.

Walter Albert tBurtl Field plead guilty Thursday morning to non-sup- port. The court was adjourned seve- raj times to allow him an,opportunity to get bond. As he was unable to procure surety he was brought be- fore the court Friday afternoon for sem tence. The sentence of the court was five months in jail and costs taxed at $S.09, with the alternative sentence that If he furnished bond of S200 with surety satisfactory to the court condi- toned that he pay his wife S6 week for one year he would be released. Falling to obtain surety he was taken to Brooklyn jail Friday afternoon. Field left the city last March and went to work near New York city. He left his wife and two small children in des- titute circumstances in this city. AL though he earned good wages he sent his wife nothing towards her support, although he had promised to do so
 Saturday morning James Morrison of Dayville was sentenced to 80 days in jail for intoxication, and l20 days for assault, with costs af 1929. The man went into saloon on South Main street, and without any provocation grabbed Fred Granger, threw him out on the sidewalk, and hit and kicked him, breaking his nose. Granger said that 1t was the fifth time his nose had been broken, ,and that 1t had been fixed up pretty good, but this time 1t was considerably out of true. Charles T. Sabin said he saw the trouble, and saw Morrison knock Granger down as fast as he could get up, and when he was down the man hit him, kicked him, and jumped on him. He wondered that he was not killed. Granger said he would have been If he wasn't SO tough. Morrison had bad scalp wound on which the blood was clot- ted. The arrest was made by Sergeant Hayes at a little after midnight. A telephone from the car barn at,Day- vile notified him that man was seen drunk and cut lying beside the track near the Arch bridge when the ear passed. When he got there he found the man in the sub station badly in- toxicated, and with Officer Cordier's assistance he was locked up.
 Four victims of the police drag net appeared before the Court Tuesday morning.
 Edward Thibeault and James Hick- ey paid S2 and q respectively for sim pie holiday trunks.
 John and Oliver Plouff, of Plainfield were booked on more serious charges John was charged with being drunk, three counts for breach of the peace and assault. Oliver his younger brother, was charged with breach of the peace and intoxication. John plead guilty to drunkenness and not guilty to the other counts. Archie and Eugene Belleware and their wives and captain Murray were the chief witnesses. They told of the Plouf brothers going to the Bellware home where they were former boarders. While there they used vile language and created dis turbance. John made threats and said that Eugene and his wife would be killed by his hand.
 Complaint was made to the police and Eugene went with Captain Murray to South Main street saloon to point the men out. While there John assaulted him. Both gave more or less trouble before they were finally locked up.
 Fines and costs were imposed on John amounting to SIPS. ID and Oliver
 was given 90 days for breach of peace and fined S7 for drunkenness with 1 costs of So O.