Putnam patriot., 1914-10-23
SUPERIOR COURT
October Term Opens in WiIlimantic
Judge Reed PresIdes. Little Criminal
 Business


 opened in Willimantic Friday with short calendar session. Judge Joel H. Reed of Stafford was on the bench. The following jury was drawn:
 Samuel Chesbro, J. 3. Blanehette, Willimantic.
 Leon T. Wilson, Alfred Bonneville, Putnam.
 Arthur James, Ashford.
 N. C. Williams, Brooklyn.
 Truman Hart, Canterbury.
 Henry Knapp, Chaplin.
 G. A. Bowen, Eastford.
 Jerome Woodward, Hampton.
 l.. P. Chase, H. X. Tillinghast, Kil- lingly.
 A. L. Dawley. Plainfield.
 P. B. Motiitt, Pomfret.
 w. NJ. Burnham, Hampton.
 B. D. Parkhurst, Sterling.
 George Vaughan, Thompson.
 w. NJ. Gallup, Woodstock.
 Only three civil cases were assigned as follows: Annie NJ. Bowen vs Con- necticut Company, Samuel Cooper vs NJ. H. Perry, Pierre Eournier, admin istrator, vs A. A. Chase.
 Three foreclosure matters were heard on the short calendar list, John Whit ford receiving a decree against Branis- lau Kopik for S400 and interest on a farm in Eastford, with Nov. , as the limit for redemption. The Williman- tic Lumber x Coal Company obtained a foreclosure against E. H. Brinda- mour for total of $4,l1719. on prop erty on Bridge street in Willimantie with Nov. 10 as the limit for redemp. tion. Nellie A. Sullivan received decree against E. T. Cavigan for S2,- 644.50 on a piece of property on the corner of Fairview and Park streets in Willimantic with the date of redemp- tion limited to Jan. 1.
 Three uncontested divorces were heard and the divorce granted in each case: Sarah E. Goss of Putnam, for mer resident of Willimantic receiving a decree against Fred Goss on the ground of habitual intemperance. She retains the custody of their two chil-
  who was married in 1907, and left her husband last February because he abused her, was granted divorce on the ground of intolerable cruelty, and got the custody of their five children. Henry W. Copeland, 63, of Ashford, obtained divorce from his second wife, Ella NJ. Copeland, on the ground of desertion. The couple were married in 1894, the wife leaving in 1903. There were no children.
 The criminal side of the present term of court promises to be of short duration, like the civil side and quite different from that of last fall, when the celebrated Howarth case was on trial, and only three were put to plea. There does not seem to be prospect of more that one or two trials.
 Clement Minard was the first pris- oner called and Attorney P. J. Dana hey defended him, After conference Minard pleaded guilty to two counts
  Potter of Woodstock, for whom he for merly worked. At one time he took ten chickens in the daytime, and a few days later got away with eleven at night. The tweniy-one' proved expen- sive, however, for his sentence was from one to two years in states prison on the first count, and an additional year on the second, making not less than one nor more than three years in prison. Attorney Danahey asked for a jail sentence, as this was Minard's first offense, but States Attorney Searls stated that when a boy Minard was sent to reform school and had bad reputation in Woodstock. Judge Reed saw no extenuating circumstances and gave Minard pretty near the limit for the ofiense.
 Hubert Manning, the Willimantie man charged with assault and intent to know a female child of l6, and whose case went up from the police court here, pleaded not guilty to the charge, and his case will be determin- ed later.
 George tArsenault, alias Snow, Jr., was put to plea on the charge of the theft .of a bay mare from Charles E. Austin of Thompson, and entered plea of guilty, after Attorney C. A. Capen had been appointed to defend him. There was some talk of having the mans sanity examined into, but the attorneys decided there was no ne- cessity for that course.
 States Attorney Searls stated to the court that the prisoner had been ar rested once before on the same charge, which was changed al that time 10 taking a mans property without ms permission, and later, in 1912, he re- ceived three months for breaking and entering on another charge. Attorney Capen said the man was drunk anu did not intend to steal the horse, put only to take a ride, but NIT oearis res- bonded that the same story was toid him on the former occasion, ana he did not think the states attorney should be caught twice on It. lie rec commended states prison and 1uuge Reed sentenced Arsenauit to from two 10 four years at that institution
 The cases of Eugene Bennett, eharg-