Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-16

wednesday, he would present the we- men in court and that they would be put to plea, the cases then to be con tinued, the behavior of the women in the interim to determine the final disposition of the cases.
 Major Hull said that he did oppose continuing the former case against Cora and Henry Mahoney. The states attorney said that this ease had been hanging fire more than a year. He said that the first time the ease was put over because the jury had just heard a similar ease. and that it had since been postponed because Cora Mahoney had been sick. Major Hull said that at the last criminal term he had sent a doctor to Norwich te de- termine whether the woman could come to court or not and that the doctor had reported that she was physically unable.
 During all this year, however, thls woman has been conducting a place and she has def1ed the law and the officers of the law. I favor trying her cases now. 1 do not know that l would oppose a fine, as the other women arrested at the same time were fined
 Attorney Charles w. Comstock counsel for Cora Mahoney and the other five women, argued that the Mahoney cases should go over with the others. He said that the real objecl of the raids was to put the places oul of business and that that object would be accomplished in that way. Four Sentenced. Two men and two women, all oi Groton, were each given a year in the | county jail Wednesday, on the charge of adultery. They are Silas Binks | colored and Bridget A. Crandall, Al fred Hewitt and Lizzie Minor al whites.
 Binks and Mrs. Crandall were joint. l ly charged and Hewitt and Mrs. Mi nor were jointly charged with th' l crime.
 Ray Cromwell, the r year old boy charged with statutory rape on Agne Edwards, aged 15. was given one yea in the county jail Tuesday he plead i ed not guilty to the charge and Wed nesday the charge was changed & that he might plead guilty, receive jail sentence and then be placed il charge of the probation officer. Stat utory rape is a states prison offens and it is not possible to suspend sen tence and put a prisoner under pro bation for a states prison offenst Cromwell is in charge of Probatio Officer Richard W. Mansfield now, an will be required to report regularly | him.
 Two cases were nolled on the rec ommendation of States Attorney Hull They were the cases of state vs. D William D. Critcherson of Mystic an state vs. Louis DotOIo Dr. CritcheI son and Dotolo were charged with fe lonieus assault, Critcherson upon Joh Uzzo and Dotolo upon Dr. Critcher
 son. The cases grew out of 8 quarr'
 over some property and there wa nothing premeditated about the cas
 Other Pleas.
 Mollie Edwards and Louis Puft
 were presented. charged with statU
 tory rape on Agnes Edwards on De
 cember l. 1911, in Groton, The wC
 man was put to plea and entered plea of not guilty. The man was nt
 allowed to plead until an interprett is secured.
 Thomas Holmes, a man of aboj , 50, residing in MOntville, was presente
 charged with committing adultery wit . Iva Stone of that place. She was nt presented Holmes pleaded not guilt ; Frank Miner of GrotOn. a middle } aged man. was presented, charged vii l statutory rape on Violet Hewlett agt
 IS. He pleaded not guilty. Alphonso Germain. a New LondC l barber, pleaded not guilty to indece l assault on Alice McCue, five years ol l John Karapangeotis, a Creek char
 ed with enticing Lena Alevapoulous 7 Greek girl, from Norwich for in t moral purposes, pleaded not guilty.