Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-06

Judge Marvin was sentencing Miss Gray to serve time in jail. 1 Miss Gray promptly pleaded guilty to ] the charge of abandoning her child by 1 l the roadside in East Thompson on a day 1 | late in August, and State Attorney i l Charles E. Searls thereupor reviewed the | l case for the court, covering the events 1 1 leading up to her arrest at Westboro, l l Mass, where she had been employed as 1 l a nurse "This is as sad a case as has | 1 come to my attention during the years | have acted as state attorney" Mir. | Searls remarked during the course of l
 his exclamation. in which he dealt no more severely than necessary with Miss l 1 Gray. who has informed officials that she does not know who is the father of 1 the child. The state attorney recom- rnended that d sentence of a year in jail ] be; imposed. l Public Defender Charles L. Torrey, counsel for Miss Gray, in addressing the history. She is g and daughter of couple who were divorced. Her father is dead. She is high school graduate ! having spent her early girlhood years in family with whom her father arranged for her care.
 About two years ago, 91r. Torrey said, ! she became reconciled with her mother, | fllO was htSpitS d muse III bOS- l ton, and went to live with her. While
 there, Mir. Torrey said, Miss Gray was drugged one night and has no remem- brance' of what occurred. Months later, upon, realizing her condition, she went away, and when her child was born she kept the fact concealed from her mother She did her best to support the child but finally came to the end of her resources and when the woman to whom she was | ro9Uif,r foT I,ar. -l,i threatened to expose her to relatives and friends as the mother of q child she in her desperation, conceived the plan of bringing the, child out into the country and abandoning t.
 4 number of other cases were disposed of Wednesday. The first was that of
 Everett Cobb, 19, of Killingiy, charged
 with Inanslaughter. Cobb was driver of
 a light motor truck that struck wagon on the state highway near Hampton on } the night of Noy. 25 last and hurled out , a Mrs: Colvin. Hampton, bride of a few
 weeks, she sustaining injuries that later resulted in her death.
 S.P J. Danahey, acting as snecial attor- ney for the state, stated to the court that it was his opinion that the charge should , be. amended from manslaughter to reck- , less driving. He explained that the con- , tractor who was the owner of the truck \ had settled civil suit for damages in a manner satisfactory to the administrator of Mrs Colvin's estate the administrator being Mrs. Colvins husband. Attorney l F. L. Darbie, counsel for Cobb, told the : court that on the night of the accident
 there was some snow on the ground He I did not believe that his client was driv- i. ing at an excessive rate of speed, but at a. reckless one, the condition of the high way considered. Cobb does. not use
 liquor, though two men who were with him at the time-older men-had been : drinking, and counsel said he believed 7 they were more responsible for the man. ] ner in. which Cobb was driving than Cobb ! himself. This was in line with what At g torney Danahey had also included in his ' remarks about the case. The court ac- P cepted the recommendation of Mr. Dana l hey and imposed a fine of s10o.
 :; Alfred LaFontaine of Woodstock
 charged with entieing a young girl, q resident of Ballouville, pleaded moi e guilty. His case was assigned for tria this (Thursday) morning.
 : Patrick Carr of DanieIson. charged V with an assault on Peter Caro, also oi e l Danielson. appealed from a sentence, i'm I posed. in the Killingly town court. of . d year ill jail. It was explained to the r court by Public Defender Torrey tha g Carr only fought Caro in self defense af- t ter going to Caro's house to collect a bil e owed him by Caro. The court sentenced v Carr to serve 50 days in jail. He al y ready has served month of the sentenc, ! imposed in the Kiliingly court.
 . Modrie DufauIt of Danielson and Pom
 fret. pleaded not guilty to Q charge c II adultery with Mrs. Louise Burnap O : Iomfret: His case will come up for tria
 within few days.
 2 C. F. Drew, 3s. and E. C. Melvern, 27 E both, colored, pleaded not guilty to charge of having broken into the hom, ki of George Law at Thompson on Sunday May 2, and stealing s101. Their case E will be tried later. Their homes are il \ Newport, R. 1.
 Ni Zotiqus Martel, a world war veteran and resident near West Thompson, a i first. pleaded not guilty to a charge tha Ei He had assaulted female child of tn, age of 10 years, the assault alleged t,
 have occurred on July F last Later h fi changed his plea to indecent assault an, \ was sentenced to serve two months il
 jail where he has been for the past fou
 months awaiting trial
 ! Albert Hopkins, 20, and Charles Hop
 kins, Is, of the town Of Brooklyn, plead E ed guilty to breaking and entering tn \ home of Charles BarStow iu the town 0 E Canterbury on March ? and to steaiin | $500 therefrom. They were sentenced t \ the state reformatory at Cheshire b
 Judge Marvin. The youths are brother. \ The only man of the day 10 recNive 5 state; prison sentence was PasQuale Peri
 To, -one of: the men who so grievousiy as \ saufed John Murray of the railioad DC
 lice during the early morning hours E May 2S last. in the railroad yards in tn city. Salvatore LaRossa, Perillo's par E ner in, this particularly vicious attack c MT. Murray committed suicide at Grool iyn jail, dying on Monday of this weel \ Perillo. was charged by the state a torney with breaking and entering u chicken GOODS of Edward Wood of u town of Putnam and with stealing chicl E ems therefrom, with assault with dangel ous weapon upon an officer and with r, sisting an officer.
 N Perillo pleaded guilty to all of tf H charges. On the count of assaulting O
 ficer Murray with a dangerous weapo f the court imposed a sentence of not le.
 than one nor more than two years in u
 E Gtate prison, and on the harge of breal
 ing and entering and theft of chicken
 the court imposed another year in priso