Evening journal., 1918-11-15
JAIL Youth FOR
Theft OF WATCH.
Francis Green, Who Won
Clemency Before, Gets
I8 Months
ACQUIT MAN WHO
SHOT FOR PROTECTION

spectacle East Side parentage, against
whom the Grand Jury returned four in
dictments, charging larceny, pleaded
guilty this morning, before Judges
Rice and Boyce in General Sessions, to
one Of the bills, and was sentenced TO
serve eighteen months in the work
house and TO pay TO Ephraim Lowe, the
complainant in the case, from whom
Green stole a $50 watch, that sum in
restitution.
Green was not unknown 10 the court,
having appeared before and clemency
been granted him. William T. Lyman,
who appeared for the prisoner, said he
felt Green was not mentally respon-
sible for his behavior Mr.. Reinhardt
said he felt wrongdoers Of Green's type
should be put where they couldn't do
harm to the public.
After a trial that lasted all OF yester-
day and part Of this morning. Edward
]. Smyth was acquitted by a jury this
morning, on a charge Of assault with
intent TO commit murder, on William
Cosgro. Both men were employed as
guards at the Marlin-Rockwell Loading
Company plant, at Port Penn, and the
trouble was an Outgrowth OF some dis
sention between the two while at work
at the plant early on the morning Of
September q.
Smyth was represented by L. Irving
Handy. Wilbur L. Adams conducted the
prosecution.
Cosgro accused the defendant OF
shooting at him because he had re-
monstrated with him about stopping
trucks on the road at st. Georges and
thereby cOngesting traffic. Smyth
avowed that his arrest was a frame-up
Of a number OF the guards ito get rid OF
him" and denied having shot at his
prosecutor. He did fire the pistol, he
said. but directed the shot into the air
10 try TO intlmldate men in a truck
who had assaulted him, into stopping
and TO attract attention Of Cosgro, VINO
was about 30 feet from him.
Before Judge Rice this morning, IN
General Sessions, Room No. 4, William
II. Anderson, colored, was found guilty
Of the larceny Of 1000 shotgun shells,
the property Of the Capelle Hardware
Co. William II. Johnson. also cOlored,
who was indicted with Anderson, was
found not guilty by the same jury. SEN
tence In AndersOns case was deferred.
afternoon. Paul Osler, a clerk in the
employ Of the Capelle Company, said
he had placed private mark on one OF
the boxes Of shells. by which he was
able to identify them, and after they
were missed from the store set out to
find them. Suspecting that they had
been sold 10 a secondhand dealer, he
went TO the establishment Of Biaggio
Malvorosa as the first place TO search
and there found them. Prior 10 miss
ing them he had seen Johnson, who
also was an employe OF the Capelle
Company near where the boxes stood
in the rear OF the store.
The state put Anderson on the stand
and he decared that Johnson had
brought the two boxes Of shells to his
wagon at Second and King streets, and
he had taken them TO MalvOrOsa's place
and sold them for SIS, which was less
than half their value, Malvorosa telling
him, he said, that he would give him
more money for them later. Asked
what he intended to do with the money
he very frankly said he expected to
keep Il and that there was no arrange
ment between him and johnson TO split
the proceeds, 20 which answer AttOr-
ney-General Reinhardt, who prosecuted
the case. commented that the money
must have been like mama falling from
heaven, whereupOn Anderson smiled ana
said that that was right.
johnson, in his own defense, declared
that he had had nothing whatever to do
with the shells and that what Anderson
said was quite untrue.
Pasquale Cassalina, a soldier, was
placed on trial before Judge Boyce and
a Jury in Court OF General Sessions this
morning on a charge Of larceny as
bailee of eight suits, six coats. nine
pairs OF trousers and three pieces Of
cloth, valued at about $500, from the
j. Edward Reynolds Sons Company
clothiers.
The case will go to the jury this az
ternOon.
Evan Boulder pleaded not guilty,
through counsel, James salisbury, to
operating a motor vehicle without the
consent Of the owner.
Michael Rocco, Of New York, was
fined $500 and costs and three years
Imprisonment on a charge OF cutting
Sarah Hanna. at Newport.
Marshano CARGO, very voluble and
diminutive Filipino. was acquitted OF
the charge OF larceny Of a $40 bill from
the cash register OF a Greek restaurant
keeper; named Nick Saros, by whom he
had been employed. at No. i26 East
Second street.
When a jury came TO try Peter
WOntz in General Sessions yesterday
afternoon before Judge Rice. on the
charge Of larceny. II encountered a case