The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-03
S2. .OOO BONDS IN CELLAR THEFT CASE
CRIMINAL SESSION
 OF SUPERIOR COURT
Sixty-three Cases on the Docket Before Judge
 Frank p. McEvOy (
MANY ELECT JURY TRIALS

Judge Frank P. McEvoy handed out one states prison sentence and one county jail sentence at the open ing of the June term of the criminal superior court yesterday afternoon. Nearly all of the 63 accused were put to plea, many pleading guilty and receiving suspended sentences while others were granted nolles on recommendation of States Attorney Lawrence l.. Lewis.
 Thomas Guglielmo, 22, was given from two to four years in states
 prison after he pleaded guilty to rob
 bery with violence in connection with
 holdup of the $. Rizk grocery store on Griggs street last February 5. Ills two companions, Lawrence DlJ oseph and Joseph D'Amico, IT, were gwen no month and six months suspended jail sentences, respectively. Gugilelmo was also charged with being the |ringleader in an attempted jail break at New Haven jail on March 29th.
 The jail sentence was given Perci- val H. Geib, former manager of the
 Economy Grocery store at Naugatuck who was charged with embedding about $335 from the store. He plead ed guilty and received a six months sentence at the county jail.
 The two state troopers, George
 Herr, 26, and Harold. Richter, 27,
 held in connection with the death
 of the Bridgeport negress, Mrs Viola
 Walker, pleaded not guilty to thelr
 charges and elected jury trials. Herr is charged with manslaughter and aggravated assault and Richter is accused of assault with a dangerous weapon. Nolles were entered against MT and Mrs William Sullivan, charged with hindering and prevent ing a witness from appearing Tn
 court. The charge grew out or the Isabelle Lituwaitis case.
 A. Mario Russo, charged with eight counts, including unlawfuiiy engaging in banking business, op- taining money by false pretenses ana six counts of embezzlement by agent pleaded not guilty and elected court trial. He gave his age as Z5' Bonds were ordered called in the
 cases of Charles Duffy and John J. Callahan. charged with obtaining money under false pretenses as result of their attempts to secure contributions for a state police pro- gram. A plea of not guilty was en- |tered in the case of Henry Bendlx, carsed with automobile homicide. He chose a jury trial. Nolles were entered against Joseph kasper, charged with keeping liquor with in tent to sell. Charged with using
 car without the owners permission, charges Morkis pleaded guilty ana had the case nolled when circum- stances were explained by Attorney w. w. Gager, public defender.
 Patsy Perillo, 36, charged with at |tempetd murder. pleaded not guilty and elected d jury trial. A court trial was selected by Donald Spun ney. charged with auto homocide, to
 which he pleaded not guilty. Sus- pended jail sentences were handed out to Ethel Mcdonald, 21, Frank Smith, 2S, and John Brown 25'
 charged with poultry thefts. They were arrested in South Elm street
 house. They had been in jail Tor i116 days. In companion case,
 Dorothy Balster, 24, pleaded not
 guilty and elected jury trial. A similar charge against Amerlgo Dls- tefano was nolled when 1t was ex- plained he is serving long term III states prison
 
 garet and Peter Jones, charged with robbery with violence to which they pleaded not guilty. The same pleas were entered by Tony Scozzafava and Ettore Fontafano, charged with at- tempted breaking and entering. They chose jury trials. Joseph LaSeiVa and Mary Namura, charged With adultery, had their cases continued until tha SeDtemb ber term.
 Other cases and their disposition include: Harry Waite, 25. theft of motor vehicle, pleaded guilty. sen Itence deferred; John McLennan, same charge, pleaded not guilty, elected jury trial; Peter Kraukaskas,
 22 robbery with violence, pleaded not guilty, chose jury trial; William Grant, burglary, nolled; William Sanda, IS, William Kyauskas' 27 John Paukistis, 22, theft of an auto, pleaded not guilty, the first named electing jury trial, others, cour. trial; Charles Pratt, forgery, pleaded guilty, case continued until Septem- Ibcr; George Bovine and Phillip Me
 Eyoy, charged with breach of the peace, nolled; Milton Buckley ana Thomas LaSelva, robbery with vio- fence, sentenced to Cheshire Re- iformatory; James A. Way, indecent assault, pleaded guilty, sentence de- lferred; George Bovine and Edward
 Moriarty, charged with attempted criminal assault, both pleaded not guilty, the former choosing court trial. the latter jury trial; Kenneth
 Beecher, using car without permis- sion, nolled; Anthony Parosis and
 Raymond Fitzpatrick, same charge, Isuspended jail. sentences; George Gallo, attempted murder, pleaded not
 guilty, elected court trial; Charles IZucco, burglary. not guilty, court trial Oscar Todd and John R. Fulg- ham, blackmail, continued to fall
 term; Leo Loiselle, robbery. nolled;
 Milo Pavlicik. theft, not guilty, court itrial.