The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-26
BURGLAR GIVEN
 STIFF SENTENCE
Another Man Who Pawned Watches Given Him To Repair Gets Six Months In Jail.

Twenty-four men and one woman
 were, put to plea before Judge Chris
 topher l. Avery of Groton, yesterday | when the Criminal Superior court opened the adjourned session of the l September term. Seventeen of this | number pleaded not guilty and de-
 manded trial by jury. Two others
 asked for trial by the court Seven
 pleaded guilty, upon five of whom 1 Judgment was passed. In the re-
 maining two cases judgment was re-
 served until today when the court i convened at 10 o'clock
 | The severest penalty meted out was | to Joseph Emanuel, 26 years old, of this city, who pleaded guilty to two fenced to two to four years in states prison on each count.
 Emanuels past record, which was l made in his brief stay in this coun- try. having emigrated here aboait 8 1 or years ago, helped to decide his | disposition. In 1915 he was sent to the state refornatory at Che shire. where he served nine institution and was later convicted for a crime and sentenced to three years in states prison. After he was released from prison he was again previous sentence. He came to Bridgeport and was caught robbing a local store. In a confession made to the police he enumerated several places which he robbed, for the most part, of tobacco, edib1es and a little money.
 Samuel Rich, arrested in this citly January IS last for having forged a cheek amounting to s25, drawn on the American Bank and Trust com pany, which he endorsed with the signature of S. Krause, was sentenced to serve not more than three and not less than one year in states prison. Rich was represented by Public De- fender Robert DeForest who told of dren in Philadelphia. The list of places in which he is alleged to have committed like offenses, including Hartford, Waterbury, New Haven and he has served a sentence in Sing Sing could not excite much 1eniency in the court.
 The past record, the fact that he had served four months in jail and because he received but SIS a week while accountable for large sums of m oney, as New London agent for the firm of T. J. McNamara & Sons, pro- vision wholesalers. of this city, from whom he embedded $459.S9 May IS, last, secured for Thomas Kobonski of this city. a suspended sentence Of one year in jai1.- He was reelased from under the custody of Probation Officer Joseph Mcconnell. An earnest plea was made for Koblonski by Attorney DeForest
 kAHtOLIo oIdCHl, d WdlCh Itpd4I man, accused of having pawneG watches which were given him for repair. was charged with three sepa- rate counts. to which he pleaded months in jail. Attorney DeForesr,, who represented Bianchi declared that he had made partial restitution, having given S6S which he possessed to an officer of the local police de- partment to distribute as equally as possible among the three victims who had lost their watches.
 Frank De Barros, colored. the e1d- est son of a large family of Norwich, pleaded guilty to the two counts placed against him of having broken the narcotic law. De Barros was de- tended by Attorney Howard P. Drew, famous colored athlete in his college days, famed for breaking the record for running 100 and 200 yards, wno unhesitatingly told the court of the environment to which his client had been subjected, how he had always worked hard and that he should now be the main support of his family. He told of the boys wandering from home, becoming an easy prey for one who might paint a1luring pictures of an easy livelihood. It appeared that De Barros was merely the tool of a more subtle mind than his own and had been led by a siren in the form of easy money. The man for whom he had become the dupe. Edwar4 SiililH pS ndnes ndS been sentenced to serve six months in -aiI. De Bar ros has already served more than four months awaiting trial. He was sentenced to six months in jail which judgment was suspended, and placed under the custody of a probation off, ficer.
 Joseph Catanzaro of Norwalk, ac- cused of burglary, pleaded guilty. His case was not disposed of, however, until an appearance could be made in his behalf by his attorney.
 His fate hanging by the thread of the worth of credentials which he claims aim were yer left at the county jail, years old, is still a boy in looks, pre- sented the most sympathetic appear ance of all those arraigned yesterday. Cassidy had no past record which might be placed in the scales against him, but on the contrary, made only favorable inBpr essions upon all with whom he has come in contact while last, for carrying concealed weapons and for robbing the home of J. l.. Montgomery in Wilton. his story as presented shows that he was filled in Ohio about six weeks before he got into trouble. His travels brought him to Connecticut and being tired and hungry while resting on the Montgomery home was uni1thabited., Upon investigation he found a win dow unlocked. He entered and slept in the hose overnight. The follow ing night he again remained in the house. Some articles of wearing ap- parel were the only things he took excepting a fountain pen with which he inte nded writing. his mother.
 That letter was never written, for he could not write from the depths of a troubled heart.
 T could never write my mother now" were the words he uttered when he told of how he had planned sending a letter home. ''The shock would kill her.
 While his case was being presented by Attorney DeForest yesterday, Cas- sidy hung his head, and at the men tioning of his mother, the tears which he had so manfu1ly held back, burst forth and rolled down his cheeks. He is a painter by trade and a letter shown to the court decided that oth- CT credentials of which he spoke, would be necessary for review before a decision is made.