Putnam patriot., 1911-03-24
ChY Court...FuIIer Judge.

City Court.--FuIier Judge.
 Arthur Jepson of Mechanicsville was in court Saturday morning and paid S5 for St. Patrick's day drunk.
 Monday morning George Lacroix and his wife Emma aired their domes- tic troubles before the court and a room full of spectators. George plead. ed not guilty to a charge of assault. His wife testified that when George was good he was very good but when he wa3 mean he was mean. George woke up Sunday morning with a hold over and took a drink. The couple use one pair of speetacles between them and the spouse had them and George wanted them. There was a fight and the husband hit the wife over the head with chair raising two Jumps and the wife struck at the hus band with bread knife which she happened to have in her hand slightly cutting his cheek. The husband told his side of the story and blamed his wife. He said he put his spectaeles In the ice box and when he went to get them they were gone. He asked his wife for them and she started a rough house. He got tangled up in the chair the air and, although he did not know 1t at the time, probably landed on his wife's head. He ran from the house as soon as he could, for his wife, as he ex- pressed it, was certainly going some, and so did George, and he didn't stop until he reached Providence street. The wife further stated that George kept the key to the hen coop and had the eggs and she did not interfere, in fact she let George do it and he did, and she thought as the speetacles were her own property that as George had full sway over the hennery she should likewise hold full sway over the look ing glasses, as she called the spectacles. The defendant was found guilty and ordered to pay fine and costs amount ing to S23 09.
 Alush Osman was then presented on the charge of stealing a revolver val ued at S5.50 from the Shop on the Square. He waived the reading of the complaint, made restitution for the re- volver and paid fine and costs of Sl5,09 besides promising to keep out of Put nam. He came from North Grosve- nordale Saturday evening and lifted a spool of wire and porcelain cup from the store of Ballard X Clark and four lead pencils and table knife from the ten cent store. The proprietors of the stores knew nothing of the theft until them by the captain of police. IL was at the Shop on the Square that the man got caught. William Crawford was in the store alone and tells the following story: Three tArmenians came into the store about nine o'clock Saturday evening and asked 10 look al some tevolvers. One of them he knew aS he had sold him pistol some time before. One of the men pointed to a pistol and asked to look at it. He took 1t and walked to the mlddle of the store. Crawford became suspicious and watched him closely. He came back to the show case and Crawford could see that he kept the pistol he had let him take down by his pocket partially covered by his sleeve. With out putting it back he pointed out an- other one and asked to look at that. He said il was no good and threw 1t l down. The other men were being shown how to put gun together land the man with the pistol thinking l CrawfordiS attention was distracted | slipped the pistol In his pocket and lit out the door. As soon as he could get | some one to watch the store Crawford went out and notified the police. He also kept an eye on the men thinking they would meet their friend some l where The man was arrested about ten O clock as he was waiting for car. The theatre was just letting out and a large crowd followed the officers with their man to the shop on the Square, l where, after he had been identified by 1 Crawford, he was locked up. A bond was furnished by his friends, Sunday The small articles mentioned were talk. en from his pockets but the pistol 1 could not be found.
 John Burgess, Of Willimantic, WAS 1 before the court Tuesday morning charged with assault upon Michael i Grimshaw, Monday evening, near the Bradley theatre. He plead not guilty and as Grimshaw did not appear to press the charge, and there being no other witness the case WAS nolled.