Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-16
JUDGE WILL CHARGE
 JURY IN SHEA CASE
Arguments in Waterford Case Before
 Superior Court Were Made.

The jury in the criminal superior
 court here will receive the Shea case
 into their hands this morning, as the arguments were all concluded when
 court adjourned Thursday afternoon at 4.15 and Judge Burpee told the jury
 men that he would be prepared to
 charge them when court came in at
 10 o'clock Friday
 Both sides rested at 1928 on Thurs
 day, and Attorney Clayton B. smith
 occupied the 37 minutes in making
 the first argument in the case where
 Charles $. Shea of Waterford is ac-
 Cushed of taking two heifers belong
 ing to Albert Fowler and Charles R.
 Ogden of New London.
 Attorney Smith was followed by At
 torney Geary for the accused, who used
 67 minutes in his argument. States
 Attorney Hull concluded the argu-
 ments, speaking for an hour and seven
 minutes.
 Ernest Lewis of Waterford was the
 first witness called Thursday and he
 testified that he had never seen the heifers in question to know them. He had only seen them at distance in the Williams pasture which adjoined . his land. He said that Owen Williams who was pasturing the heifers, had told him that when Williams went to drive the cattle home in the fall the
 two heifers were not there. Defense Begins. The state IGSleu at IIlS point anu Attorney Geary for the defense called Owen Williams, who testified that Shea had taken the cattle on the Sunday before July 4. He said that Shea had gone to his place and asked for the heifers and he had told him that if the cattle were his to take them.
 Mrs. Ellen Shea. wife of the ac- ! cused, said that she was at home on the day that Constable Dimmock had called at the house about the heifers, ] but she did not hear what was said. ! She told of keeping the books for her | husband.
 | James C. Smith. who lives mile
 away from the Williams place and two 1 and a half miles from the Shea farm, i said he had heard about the missing 1 cattle but had never seen them. The Accused Testifies. | Charles $. Shea, the accused. then went on the stand. He said that he | traded in cattle and that he took cattle | to pasture. Often the cattle got away, i as the place was not very well fenced ! in He had taken in cattle to pasture ! for the New London almshouse, Rum ! Till of Waterford, Richards of Quaker | Hill and others.
 | He said that he had heard that two | of his heifers had gone astray. The heifers belonged to the almshOuse. He | had gone to the Williams place that 1 | had not taken them away in the morn 1 ing but had returned at night to bring | them back to hls place. The cattle he | took then are now at the almshouse. | He said that he had traded cattle
 with Isaac Meran, a butcher of this 1 city. He referred to his books on | the stand and identified an entry re- | lating to the trading of a COW and | S20 for two heifers with a farmer whose name he did not know.
 Farmland Went After Stray HeifeTs 1 Pasquale Gotta, one of Shea's farm ] hands was the next witness and told ! of ,oing to help bring home the stray | heifeTs with Shea on the Sunday be- l fore July 1.
 John r. Morgan told of being at | the Shea place on the day Constable
 Dimmock called. The constable had ! told Shea then that he could settle for i S75. the witness said.
 i Sheriff Tubbs told of Sheas arrest i in New London and of Shea's offer to ! settle the matter. The sheriff told him
 to get a lawyer, as he couldn't advise ! him.
 | Both sides then rested and the ar 1 guments were started.