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Assault in the Evening Journal, 1900 & 1920

In And About the Courts

Item

Title
In And About the Courts
Date
13-Feb-00
page
2
Identifier
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84020358/1900-02-13/ed-1/?sp=2&q=assault&r=0.307,0.19,0.209,0.23,0
Crime
Assault
Subject
robbery; assault
Gender of alleged offender
male alleged offender
Gender of alleged victim
male alleged victim
Stage of the Legal System
court
Location
In State; Springfield
Length of story
139
Description
Kane Bound over the the Superior Court. William Kane, who was arrested in
Springfield Friday night at the request
of Captain Cowles and brought to New
Haven by Detective Sergeant Dennehy
the followlng day, was bound over to
the April, term of the superior court by
Judge Dow in the city court yesterday
morning. His bond has been fixed at
$1,000, which he has thus far been una
ble to furnish.
Kane is charged with assault and rob
bery on the person of James Lynch, a
vegetable peddler in the employ of John
Franklin of Nash street, the act being
committed on the night of January 22
last in the saloon of Joseps Gauggell on
West Water street. Kane stole money
and vegetables from Lyndh and also as
saulted the latter, knocking him down
and otherwise violently abusing him.