Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1913-10-22

| Tuesday In the criminal superior court
| States Attorney HHdlai A, Hull has
| cleaned up the docket all except the
/ Marion Morse case and the man
/ slaughter case against Mrs. Lillian NJ.
| Perkins of Allyns Point for shooting
/ and killing her son in law, Thomas
Coatehelly, last June.
| After court adjourned for the day
on Tuesday until this morning the
states attorney said that the trial of
/ Mrs. Perkins would be begun today.
She has been in jail ever since the
| shooting with the exception of a day or
| two Immediately after the tragedy,
| when she secured the bail fixed by the
| coroner. After the coroner's finding In
| the case she was held all summer in
| the Norwich jail until the meeting of
! the grand jury, which failed to find a
| true bill against her on the murder
| charge but a charge of manslaughter
! was then preferred against her Bail
| was fixed at SIS 600, which she was un-
| able to secure. and she has been held
at the Norwich jail, awaiting trial. Her
| attorneys are Charles Y. James and J.
| J. Desmond
| In the business Of the court on Tues
| day three of those presented before the
| bar received jail sentences, three re-
| ceived states prison sentences, one was
sent to the state reformatory, and one
| was given a sentence, which was sus-
| pended and the accused placed. on pro-
| baton.
Jail Sentences for Women.
| Court opened at 1925 o'clock in the
morning in the room of the common
! pleas court because the superior court
/ room was being occupied by a session
| of the supreme court of errors. Judge
| Gardiner Greene was on the bench.
He opened the civil superior court
simultaneously with the criminal side
and adjourned the former until Friday
afternoon at o'clock.
The first case to be called up WAS
that of May Pierson of New London.
She was charged under the amended
acts of 1911 with keeping May Volker
Of New London for purposes of prosti-
tuition She pleaded guilty State At
torney Hull then told the court that in
view of the defendant pleading guilty
to one count he would ask for nolles
! in other counts against her. The nolles
were granted by the court AS she
was waiting for her sentence to be
/ pronounced the defendant wept softly.
The case against Hilda Beaudry,
also of New London, was then called
up and she was put to plea on the
charge of harboring Blanche Russell
for purposes of prostitution, to which
/ she also pleaded guilty.
Attorney Richard P. Freeman then
made a plea for leniency. He stated
that he had advised his clients to plead
guilty but he doubted if they could
be tried on the charge against them,
when women go into house of their
own free will.
The court then sentenced the two
women each to a year in jail, which
will be served at New London.
May Pierson and the Beaudry wom-
an were arrested in a descent made
upon their places last May by state
policemen. The Pierson woman con-
Quoted a place in Potter street diagon-
ally across the street from the rear Of
the police station and the Beaudry
woman conducted a place in Bradley
street. Several women and about
score of men were arrested in the
raid.
They were tried in police court and
bound over to the superior court
AT the same time that the houses
of these two women sentenced were
raided the state police also made
descent upon house conducted by
Joseph Laboue in Green street. In
police court next day Laboue, who had
been released on bonds of $500, failed
to put in an appearance and his bonds
were called. A search was made for
Laboue, but he could not be located
and he has been among the missing
ever since.
Burglars at Lyme.
When court came in after the noon
recess, Peter Maruda and Oxen Arolo,
the former % and the latter II, plead
ed guilty to the charge of common law
burglary in entering the home Of Dr..
Josiah Ely at Lyme on the night of
October 9Th and taking a hat and 9TH
er articles Of clothing. Attorney V. P.
Quinn was assigned by the court as
guardian ad litem for the younger man,
and after a talk with him the attorney
made a statement before sentence was
pronounced. He said that MaTuda had
a wife and child in New York and
to Loo 9aT-i c.ri1,o
mitted. and that Arolo also came from
New York
Judge Greene made the sentence for
Maruda from one to three years in
states prison, and sent the younger
man to the state refCrmatory for an
indefinite period.
Two Stonington Highwaymen.
Joseph Rushlow and Walter Arnold
both of Mystic, presented on the charge
of highway robbery in holding up Carl
A kOelb, cashier of the American Vel
vet COMPANY in Stonington. while
Koelb was ON his way to the mill with
the payroll of SIT, 500 about two weeks
ago, pleaded guilty.
Before sentence was pronounced up
on them States Attorney Hull ad-
dressed the court and described the
circumstances of the holdup He said
it was to the credit of the men that
they had made a complete confession
after they Were arrested RushloW, he
said. had been concerned in several
!1urglaTies. Alone he had entered a
Hardware store in Westerly and to-
gether the two men had broken into
Muir's furniture store. For the robbery
of the velvet mill they had made care
full preparations. They had a boat
waiting in the river nearby, waiting
for a favorable opportunity. They ex-
pected to escape across the river in the
boat.
Stole for His Hungry Family.
Louis A. Peabody of Groton pleaded
guilty to statutory burglary on October
u in entering the place of Ernest A.
Bliven in Bystic and stealing pork
hams pork roasts, and beefsteak to
the value of $37 so.
The states attorney made a recon-
mendation for leniency in this case.
saying that the prisoner was a good
mechanic, who had a wife and family
but had lost his work because of drink
and the family came to very destitute
circumstances and was actually suf-
fering from hunger. 1t was for this
reason the man stole and it was really
a pitiable case because the man was
capable of better things. He said the
man now has work offered him in a
machine shop and he recommended