Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-26
WESTERLY

The adjourned session of the superior | court for Washington county from the courthouse in West Kingston opened here Monday afternoon at 12.15 o'clock, Judge l George T. Brown on the bench.
 Nutziata Gancerelle; charged with mak- ing an assault with a dangerous weapon upon the body of Fred Gabrielle Thanks giving night, November. 1917, was brought before the court for sentence. He was given six months in the Providence county jail.
 This case has been before the district
 court, the superior court for Washington county and the supreme court of the state. The alleged assault occurred in Canal street saloon Gabrielle having been stab bed in the abdomen with knife. Gan cerelle escaped the Westerly police but was captured in Worcester by Chief of Police Thomas E. Brown. His arrest oe- cured in January, 1918. He was ad- ! judged probably guilty in the Third dis trict court and Feb. IS, 1918, was indict- | ed by the grand jury of the superior court for Washington county. An appeal was tagen to the supreme court and the case | was sent back to the superior court for
 sentence.
 Joseph Guarino and Angela Guarins | were before the court Monday morning
 and were placed under bail of s25oo and $1.50o. respectively, Paul Jiuliano fur
 nishing surety. It was announced by Assistant Attorney General Sisson that the case of state. Thomas E. Brown, conn plainant. vs. Joseph Guarino will be ready
 for trial today (Tuesday).
 The trial of the ease of state, Thomas lE. Brown, vs. John Whitford, charging defendant with being a lewd. lascivious af arfad af q an
 o'clock. This case arose from raid
 made by Officers Fer guson and Curtin on
 a nalleged house of i'll fame on Pierce street, where white girl, Bertha Buck,
 was found in company with colored peo- pie. The raid occurred on the morning of Monday. Feb. 14, upon complaint of
 another family in the tenement. and shortly after the arrest of the white girl 1 she accused Whitford of assaulting her whitford was arrested the following day by the local police and was tried on the same charge before the Third district court, a sentence of three years being imposed on him by Judge Oliver H. VII. Hams. An appeal was taken. Attorneys ,, Clarence Roche and Michael Turano rep , resented the defendant. while Assistant Attorney General Sisson appeared for tn, 1. state.
 The first witness called by the stat, . was 6efl1a 6ucks the 10 year olu Wnlt' . girl found in the house on Pierce stree ? the night of the raid. In direct examina i ton she said she was 1e years old las .. .. July, and had lived with her family il Lower Pawcatuck until about thre' months ago In early February she cam z , to reside with Daniel Seketer and famil. on High street and worked there iunti . about Feb. g, when Mrs. Ida Payne O
 Pierce street persuaded her to change he , residence again upon promise of goo z home.
 e She said that the defendant in the cas-, "a John Whitford, was a frequenter of tn . house, but 1t was not until the evening c
 Feb. Il that she was persuaded by MT a Payne to go into bedroom with hin ,- The girl said that Mrs. Payne promise her good things if she would go into tn ,e room with Whitford. and she went. I r detail she told of what happened in tn le room, and the minor events until th
 place was raided about o'clock on th 1t morning of Feb. IA.
 ,- Under cross examination she told tf l- same story and was in no way fiustere
 by the sharp questions of Attorney Tu ?. aio.
 { Sergt- Donald Ferguson of the wester' Ia police department testified that on u ,g 18th of February at about o'clock
 the meratlg-Ao was called to Pierce stne