Putnam patriot., 1916-09-08
SUPERIOR COURT September Term Opens and Prisoners
 Put iO Plea
Trial of Cases Began Wednesday

The September term of the Wind ham county superior court came in Tuesday morning with Judge Joel II , ! Reed on the bench. Prisoners were put to plea and cases disposed of as follows:
 stanley s.asek of Putnam plead guilty to attempted assault on fe- ] male child under the age of i6 years. The ease came up from the Putnam city court. A sentence of one year in jail was imposed.
 Patrick Roach plead guilty to intox- ieation and breach of the peace and was sentenced to go days in jail He came up on an appeal hom a sentence of nine months in the town court of killingly.
 Henry (. Knight of killiugty plead guilty 10 being common drnnkard and was sentenced to the state farm for inehriates al Norwich for three years
 Raymond l.. Gray, 20, plead guilty to breaking ana entering the home of | i6th. The young man was formerly employed at the place and according to the story told by his attorney, (, l., l Terrey, returned while the family was away to get some of his belongings and took some property that was not his. lie was sentenced to the state re- formatory.
 The following plead not guilty:
 James Morrison charged with being common drunkard.
 Litly May Moran, breach of the peace.
 Frank Stepana charged with break ing into the store of $. Diamond in Putnam.
 stanisiaus Jubliski, theft and statu- tory burglary.
 wilfred Lorseau, Willimantic, non support.
 Alex 0uillette, Danielson, rape.
 Joseph Brady, intoxication.
 Asa Benoit, assault
 Benoit Is charged with assaulting n man and throwing him out of smiths cate in Putnam and breaking the mans leg.
 Court came in Wednesday for the trial of criminal cases with the jury tn attendance.
 As soon as court opened James Nor rison changed his plea to guilty of n charge of being common drunkard. i The man comes from Killingly and has long record. He was sentenced to the state farm for inebriales fer the period of one year,
 Mrs. Lillian May Moran then changed her plea to guilty. She was charged with breach of the peace and came up on appeal from the town court of killingly. She was sentenced to 30 days in jail and execution of the sentence was suspended for six months and she was placed on probation.
 Joseph Brady plead guilty to bur. glary In the town of Plainileld and was sentenced to six months in the county jail.
 Wilfred L'Osieau off Willmantic was then put on trial charged with non support of his four minor children. Since he was arrested in July another child was born and is now three weeks l old.
 The state offered witnesses to show that the man had roved about from place to place and had not contributed towards the support of his children. The family has been supported by the town.
 The defence was that the wife had refused to follow him about the coun- try and for that reason defendant felt that he twas under no obligation to furnish the support.
 The judge instructed the jury that notwithstanding that his wife refused to live with him it did not release him from his legal duty to support the children. After being out lb minutes the jury returned verdict of guilty.
 States Attorney 5earls told the  the man who had twice before been given an opportunity to support his family and recommended the maxi mum penalty of one year in jail. A sentence of nine months was imposed. Court then adjourned.
 There were no trials at Thursday s session. Ali criminal cases have been disposed of except a manslaughter case that is the outcome Of an autc- mobile accident. This case will be tried in lWiIlimantic where the jury was instructed to report.next Wednes. day.
 Frank Stepana plead guilty to break. ing into the Diamond store as told in , another column in detail. Alexander Ouilette of Fall River, ] charged with rape, was allowed to plead guilty to simple assault and was ] sentenced to five months In jail. Tho man was connected with a merry gc ] round which was in Danielson where the assault took place. stsnisIaus Jubllski plead guilty tc ] bfeaklng into the Catholic church al ; Moosup and was sentenced to six , months in jail. It was thought thai the young man had learned lesson and would reform. I Charles Jacobs of Willimantic : charged with driving an automobile without the permission of the owne