The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-20
JUDGE THREATENS
 LAWYER WITH
 DISARMAMENT
Attorney Berger Game Into City Court With Retrac-
 tion Signed By Witness

Ernest Berger, well known Main street lawyer this morning received se- were censure by Judge Thomas C. Coughlin in the city court where he Ian street, arrested upon the com plaint of Mary Povlik, 86 Italian street, who charged that on August IS she had been assaulted.
 The direct cause of the rebuke which vas scalhing in it's force and intf- mated that dtsbarrment proceedings might have been brought was a sign ed statement which Attorney Berger offered the court from the states chief witness and the complainant in the case. retracting her charges and asking to have the case withdrawn. As witnesses to this retraction the name of Berger was attached as we'll as that of one George Dutzak whom 1t was alleged procured the retraction from the Povlik woman.
 Not only was Attorney Berger told that his offense in tampering with the case of the prosecution and it's wit nesses was sufficient upon which to ask for his disbarment, but Povlik was threatened with contempt of court proceedings should he ever again be caught seeking to influence witnesses in a case.
 A warrant for the arrest of Symfck was asked on August IS by Mrs. Pow lik. The case was continued until to- day and was about to be tried when the retraction was placed in evidence. Immediate postponement was made until tomorrow while officers will make Ia full investigation of the affair be- fore trial
 Attorney Berger later stated that he was innocent of any intentional wrong doing and welcomed an investigation Of his connection with the affair.
 Both victim and assafIant were fined 11iey R. Wahlin, after several weeks con finement in a local hospital where he had been taken with a, depressed frac- ture of the skull and after fight with Denis CoughEn. Both men are neighbors on Alfred street. Cough lin is alleged to have thrown a dead cat into the yard of Wah1in who upon protest became involved in a fight in which iron shoe lasts and stones fn- terning1ed. WahIin himself found to be an aggressor was the last one hit and only appeared upon the streets yesterday.
 A beer party in their Crescent ave nue home last night caused somewhat of a breach of the peace and today resulted in a sixty day jail sentence being given Tony Matte, which the same sentence with additional fines of $5 each were given Helen Hallenbeck and Cora Williams.
 Because he insisted upon being lei into the Acme Shear company's plant yesterday to revenge himself after someone had thrown emery dust into his eyes from an open window, Julius Punk, IA Ogden street, who was in toxicated at the time caused a breach Of the peace for which he was today fined $1O and costs.
 Joseph Bernstein. arrested the sec ond time for not supporting his wife found the sentence a cumulative one ! cio 1n T7a6 been found guilty and ordered to pay S2 50 weekly. This he failed to dc and was again haled to court. Though
 his case was bitterly fought by At torney Edward K. Nicholson. the old
 case was reopened, sentence suspend and he was ordered to pay $5 week ly under bonds or go to jail. Annie Francis, 10 Housatonfc ave nl1e, charged with the theft of SPAS from her Iand1ady Phoebe Vaughn. which was found in the possession o1 Peter Maher, arrested for intoxica- tion in July, but few hours after his discharge from the county jail, was found guilty of probable cause and I rernanded for trial before the superior term under bonds of $1,Oo0. Maher who convinced the authorities he hao no hand in taking the money from 3 l trunk and had merely had it entrust- ed to his care was released upon 3 nolle
 l A breach of the peace charge against Jacob Weinsbeck, 339 Pine street, was l continued for trial until August 26 l under bonds of S25.