Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-24
CRIMINAL COURT HAD
 FULL MAY DOCKET.
Term Adjourned Thursday After Five
 Busy Days.

IAdt' HIS was lI0 case against w H. r. liam Pero of this city, charged with arson, In which the jury disagreed and was discharged.
 The probation system was put into use in many cases. Fourteen accused were sentenced, the sentences suspend ed and the accused placed in charge of the county probation officer, Richard W. Mansfield.
 Many Extra Cases.
 There were many extra cases be- cause of the activity of the state police and there were several brought in on bench warrants while the court was in session, but no trials were neces- sary.
 The last case before adjournment on Thursday was that of the state vs. Clifford Graham, New London car penter accused of assaulting John Per | ", another carpenter, on the night of | Dec, 2 as Perry entered his home in | Jefferson avenue New London The | charge against Graham was nolled on | payment of $40, costs of the prescott ton.
 The jurymen who have been in at tendance were discharged and paid off 1 by Clerk Parsans.
 The prisoners from this term for states prison will be kept at the 1 county jails until Sheriff Brown can l arrange for their admission at Weth- | ersfeld and as soon as there is room there the sheriff will take them to serve their sentences.
 TreIoar Boy Escapes States Prison. In court Thursday Judge Reed decid- ed to save John Treloar the stigma of 1 a state prison sentence, and sentenced | the boy to a year in jail after Treloar | had pleaded guilty to the charge of in 1 decent assault on Dorothy DeWof aged nine years. Treloar, when pre- | scented in court Wednesday just after arrest. pleaded not guilty. Wednes- i day he admitted the whole affair and Thursday Changed his plea to guilty. | TrelOar's mother and sister wept 1 violently when the boy was sentenced. Attorney Clayton B. Smith, who de- i tended Treloar, blamed the sending of | the boy to a reform school at the age of for his career. Attorney Smith l said that Treloar's record had been bad one
 At the boy stole a neighbor's horse and went to ride. He was taken to re- form school and was later paroled. | While on parole he stole another horse and was again sent to reform school. After leaving reform school a second time he was arrested in Essex for bur glary.
 States Attorney Hull did not oppose a jail sentence. He doubted if Treloar had any sense of decency left and that he was a degenerate, but thought that he might improve if kept away from cigarettes.
 Judge Reed in sentencing Treloar told him to behave himself when he got out again and said that he would do so if he had any regard for his mother, who is a sufferer through her sons offense.
 Chabot on Probation. In the case of Moses Chabot, charged with forgery, Judge Reed suspended the fine of $25 and costs imposed last week aid placed ChabOt on probation for six months. This is the case in which Albert Anderson, Arthur Bouch- ard and Moses Chabot were charged with giving bad check to an Occum sloonkeeper. They were fined S25 and coses each, amounting to SS455.
 Bouchard Lands Back in Jail.
 Bouchard's father was to have paid his fine, but Bouchard after leaving court got drunk and his father refused to pay the fine so that Sheriff Brown had to send a deputy sheriff to Baltic
 lO 6Cl 0OQOlleiAu U anu Dl l1AS nAln lO llLG Norwich jail Anderson was placed on probation and given chance to earn
 enough to pay his fine. Chabot said
 that he could not earn the amount of
 his fine, as he was a cripple, having
 but one arm and one leg, so Thursday , Attorney Babcock asked Judge Reed to release Chabot from the fine and place him on probation.
 States Attorney Hull said that he , believed that Chaibot was the tool of l Bouchard in the matter, anyway
 Judge Reed then agreed to waive the
 fine
 Germain Must Go to Jail.
 Judge Reed denied the petition oi
 Attorney John J. Lawless that Alphon- ' so St. Germain, the New London bar
 Der, sentenced last week to a year ir
 1ail for indecent assault on 6 year OlC
 Alice McCue. be placed on probation
 Judge Reed in denying the request l said: There are too many cases o1 ] this character at this term. I do no g want to extend the probation system tC such an extent that it will be an en- ] couragement to commit crime. If mer l have regard for their families they
 refrain from committing crime e Profile Case Noled. ., Louis Profile of Groton, who ha! t been in jail some weeks facing tn,
 charge of statutory rape on Agnei s Edwards, was allowed to go free or f Thursday morning, when the cas- - against him was nolled in the superiO Il court. It was expected that the cas- y would be tried Thursday. - States Attorney Hull recommends e a nolle to Judge Reed. The states at
 torney said that the case hinged ol ! of, bf y4-as m - willing to swear to seeing Profile in 2 certain position.
 q Profile was jointly charged witt e Mollie Edwards with statutory rape ol h Agnes Edwards, Mollie Edwards e daughter. Mollie Edwards pleade q guilty when court opened last wee n and was sentenced to year in jai q Thursday she was placed in charge O e County Probation Officer Mansfield - She is in the New London jail and is t Is become mother within the next fey d weeks The girl is at a state institu 1T tion and is doing well, States Attorne D Hull said.
 = Two Pleaded Guilty. Two more arrests on the charge q
 statutory rape were made in New Lon
 don Thursday. when Lester Reeves an
 Anthony Silva were brought into tn
 ed with committing the crime on Mar
 caret Murphy, aged E, of New Lon
 den. They pleaded guilty. were sen e fenced to six months in the county ja 'I and were placed in charge of Count e Probation Officer Mansfield Information against the youths wa d placed before States Attorney Hadls
 A Hull. and at his insistance Judg
 Reed issued bench warrants and tn
 bows were arrested by State Police
 man Downing.
 s. Keep Away from Cigarettes. IT Judge Reed in placing the boys O e probation gave them some wholesom d advice. He advised them to continu y industrious and to keep to the straigh d and narrow. T want you to conside ] l,n -,Ra