Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-09
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language and intoxication, October 8, alleged to have occurred in an alter cation with James Slye, entered a plea
 of not guilty. He was given a jail
 sentence of two months on the first count, judgment being suspended for
 three months, during which time he
 was to report once a week to Grand Juror George A. Reed, of Eastford, who
 ficer by the court. Judgment was
 suspended on the other three counts.
 The accused is an ex-soldier and his
 former record is said to have been
 good.
 A plea of guilty was entered by
 James Sherman, charged with breach of the peace, intoxication, theft and
 destruction of private property, Oc-
 tober 27. Sherman was charged with
 having, in a fit of rage after an argu-
 ment with his landlady. cut up the top
 of her automobile, doing other damage to various parts of the car. Sher-
 man had paid his landlady the sum of
 $25.60 as part restitution for the dam
 age he had caused this being paid
 while he was confined in the jail. He
 was sentenced to three months in jail. A charge Of assault and rape on the
 person of Aldea Maynard, in the town
 of Thompson, December T. was enter
 ed against Harold Crea of that place.
 He pleaded not guilty to the charge.
 The case of Lena Nj. Muller, of Ash ford, charged with assault with in tent to kill on the person of I4orenz
 Schuh, came up for trial. She was sentenced to one year in jail by Judge
 Kellogg, execution of judgment being Nsuspended for a like period during which time she must report at least
 once a month to James E. A. .Knowl- ton, special probation officer. AL though Mrs. Muller went through her trial without showing any. trace of excitement she broke down after she had been sentenced. The assault took place after a writ of attachment had
 been served on Mrs. Muller, for de- famation of character by Schuh, on ] behalf of his eleven year old daugh- ter, Eva. Mrs. Muller dressed in l working mans clothing, met Schuh l by fl1e roadside on Franklin Hill, on l the morning of August 27, and point I cd a shot gun at him and pulled the l trigger. The gun failed to go of the 1 first time, but the second trial re- I suited in Schuh receiving the charge I in his left knee. Mrs. Muller then | struck him over the head with a milk pail that Schuh had been carry- 1 ing and inflicted several scalp wounds. | She was arrested later that day by i Deputy Sheriff William E. Jackson l and was bound over to the superior court under bonds of $500. Mrs 1 Muller in court Thursday morning en- 1 tered a plea of guilty to the charges. 1 States Attorney Charles E. Sharls ' of Putnam in reviewing the case stat | ed that the woman was not a criminal i at heart and had a good record. It l was also pointed out that she had | three small children, age five, seven ] and eight years, who would be left i alone if she was committed to jail. | consequently a lenient sentence was given her.
 Ira Fowler of Woodstock, cEareed ] with assault upon and abuse, of his 1 1S year old niece, Edith Harris, on | October IT, entered a plea of not guilty to the charges.
 i Court adjourned at 1.15 o'clock 1n-
 til Wednesday of next week.
 Julia Armstrong, widow of Nathan 1 L. Bishop. died Thursday morning at , the homeof her daughter, Mrs, Ash
 ton Persons of No. 315 Prospect street after a lingering illness. She was born in Mansfield. October 8, 1841, daughter i of George B. and Della Arnold Arm strong. An obituary notice of Mrs Bishop, long prominent resident of Norwich, appears in the Norwich
 news.
 Company B was too fast for the boys 1 rom Jewett City, Wednesday night and walked off with the game by the score of S1 to s6. The first period of 1 the game was entirely in the favor of | the local five and the score at the end
 of the play was A to Is in their favor. ! In the second half the Jewett City l boys took a brace but were untable to
 overcome the lead Company B had | piled up in the first stanza. The line up and scores followi
 Company B. Jewett City.
 Cronin, If rg, Mclean l Morrison, If lg. Barry
 A. Lewis c, c. Benjamin
 Tighe, lg If, Blake
 k. Lewis, rg If. W. Benjamin
 Score: Company B, 31, Jewett City | 26; baskets from floor; Cronin ', W. ] Benjamin 5, Barry 4, A Lewis 3, Mor- i rison 3. Blake 3, c. Benjamin l. Goals 1 from fouls: A. Lewis 4, E. Lewis 1. 1 Referee, Buck" Donohue. Time % | minute periods.
 Nathan A. ogushewitz, of Mansfield Four Corners, re-enlisted for one year, Thursday, for duty in the ordnance | department at Sprinfield armory. l Ogushewitz's previous record of ser | vice for Uncle Sam was from Febru-
 ary 27, 1918 to November 29. 1918. He is the second man that has signed LID
 at the local recruiting station for a
 year at the Springfield Armory. Ches-
 ter R. Hall, who is in charge of the
 station has been kept busy recently 1 giving out Victory buttons to the To- | cal men who have been discharged l from the service. The supply at the
 Victory Cottage on Main street has
 not been entirely used up and any
 ex-service man can obtain his Vic
 tory button by applying at that cot tage, showing his discharge papers.
 Rev. Eugene p. Cryne, assistant pas-
 tor of the church of the Immaculate Conception in Waterbury, and Albert N. Colgrove were recently appointed
 members of the Board of Public Char