Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-18
JAILED FOR ATTACHING
 COLCHESTER. SCHOOL TEACHER

Michael and Katie zancvitz, hus- band and wife. residents of Colches- ter, were found guilty by the jury in the superior court on Tuesday here on the charge of assault and battery upon Miss Annie Matilda SEankewicz, teacher at a Colchester school, where two children of the accused went to school
 The two defendants denied making the assault and claimed that injuries which Miss Stankewicz testified to. were received in q runaway on the morning of tl.e day in question This was on Mon6ay. Nov. F. 1917. The accused claimed that the. sciloolteach- CT was hurt in the runaway on the morning of that day and that she taught school that day. The school teacher testified that she was assault ed by the man and his wife while she was on her way home after leaving school at o'clock in the afternoon Mrs. Zanowitz carried 9 big club, the school teacher testified and hit her the first blow on the hip and Mr Zanowitz kicked her in the abdomen and punched her in the ribs. She was in bed for ten days under the doctors care and then for three weeks in the ] Backus hospital at Norwich. She was not able to resume school teaching until the following January. Miss Stankewicz testified that her assailants blamed her fer reporting absences of the two ZanoWitz chill
 dren to the school supervisor so that l the parents were to have been obliged to pay a fine.
 | Dr. J. M, Klein of Colchester testi- l fled to the injuries to the school teacher and Jeremiah J. Sullivan, d
 town school visitor. to the bad feeling of the two accused towards the | schoolteacher. Another witness for the state was Frank WasUtsky with
 whom the schooiteacher vas driving it the time of the runaway
 | The two accused made 8 general de- ] nial when put on the stand Elsie 1 ZanoWitz, a daughter of the accused, frances Glaskowsky, Fairfield Gray, Charles r., Brown and Sam Kabatz-
 nick were other witnesses for the ac- cused.
 | There is also a civil suit for dam ages brought by the school teacher against the two defendants
 The jury returhed a verdict of gull tY against both the man and the wo- man after being out about twenty minutes.
 In moving for sentence State At torney Hadlai A. Hull said ne thought
 the man ought to be given a substan tial sentence while the woman was not so much to blame for the assault
 He said he had learned that Zanowitz
 had threatened one of the witnesses
 for the state this morning, saying tc 1 him, You have got to die by my
 hand"
 ! Judge Case asked about the Zano.
 Nitz family and was told by Attor-
 ney Thomas A- Shields, who had ap. reared for the accused, that there
 were five children. The attorney alsC
 said that the threatened witness wht had been referred to had badly beate1
 Janowitz recently and the attorney
 indicated that he though: the family
 could be taken care of if the penalt, r imposed should be a fine. Judgt
 Case, however. said there was goin,
 to be no fine in this case. for thert
 had been a serious attack in the high | way upon slight girl by a man ant !. woman. He gave Hanowltz si: } months in jail and his wife is re leased upon her own reco gnizance ant , is to report to the court at such tim
 as may be appointed.