Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04

Anthony YVisneski, accused Of forg- ing checks belonging to his employer in Franklin, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty on three of the -four the criminal superior court in New London on Wednesday and was sem fenced to the refoImatory.
 The following pleas were entered:
 Victor Zelwinder, charged with non support of his wife from June 30, 1914, appointed Attorney Stewart as coun- sel.
 Frederick Beckwith pleaded not guilty to a charge of poultry theft and later changed his plea to guilty on the advice of his attorney, c. Curtis Mor- gan, who was appointed by the court on the request of the accused.
 In the court Tuesday afternoon AL len Maynard, accused of entering four houses in Gales Ferry, was sentenced to one year in Jail on two counts. Maynard is a Ledyard man and
 Bronislaw Ayciair of Norwich. charged with issuing fraudulent check, changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to 40 days in jail
 Gets Year in Jail. =
 At Wednesday mornings session Jo- seph Schaffhausen was sentenced to one year in the county jail in the
  Tuesday Schaffhausen pleaded not guilty to assault with intent to mur- der, and on the advice Of his counsel changed his plea Wednesday morning.
 On April IT Schaffhausen was in a saloon with Joseph Koch. who was a friend of the accused. Koch was call- ed from the saloon and Schaffhausen followed. With apparently no cause, the accused struck Koch over the head with a heavy iron bar wrapped in cloth which he had concealed on his person. Later developments showed that Schaffhausen had passed some remarks about Koch's wife and that when Koch demonstrated the accused had struck the blow.
 State Attorney Hull thought the case was one where states prison was the only remedy, inasmuch as the ac- cused was carrying the bar, which was of deadly nature.
 Frederick Beckwith of Waterford was sentenced to six months in jail and judgment of sentence suspended and the accused put in charge of Pro- bation Officer Mansfield. Beekwith was accused of taking four fowl on 1 May 1 in New London valued at $1 apiece. On the request of the accused i the court appointed G. Curtis Morgan | counsel. MT. Morgan admitted that Beckwith had taken nine hens and l pleaded for leniency, as the accused
 
 for the stolen property State Attor- ney Hull was of the opinion thai 1 Beckwith belonged to that worthless class that probation has no benefit for Beckwith was up in the city police court Tuesday and Prosecuting At l torney told the court Wednesday morning that the suspicion that Beck with was mixed up in other recent I misdemeanors were unfounded. In sus- 1 pending judgment of the sentence Judge Reed told the accused what was expected of man on probation
 Sent to Refornatory.
 Anthony Wisneski. a young q years old, was given reformatory sentence i after he had changed his plea of not guilty Of forgery on four counts, tc 1 guilty on three. the state nolling the 1 fourth. Wisneski forged his name tC l about Is of his Franklin employers 1 checks and had cashed eight of them later fleeing to Canada and then push. ! ing west, being caught in Portland l Ore. Inasmuch as the youth had tried 1 to secure money to repay the one he l had defrauded, the reformatory sen, 1 tence was given in preference to a stGtC 1 prison term.
 The case of Rocco Coloantonfo, tht I Italian watchman who on the Darrov dock in New London shot and killed another Italian. was nolled on rec. 1 ommendation of State Attorney Hull 1 A grand jury had failed to indict tht accused on charge of murder and tt