Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-05-25

ANN Inn Ah4A4S OE IhlA4N Al GASES
Before Judge Sanger Thursday, May 24th,-
The Court commenced today, the trial of cases
returned by the Grand Jury about week ago !;
also. the cases tn came up by appeal, from the
inferior courts. There were forty-seven cases
FOX trial, two indictments being found against one
George Stacy for murder.
The following juries were empanelled =
First Jtoy-George W. Jones, Templeton,
Foreman; Lewis H. Bigelow, Grafton: George
Bowman, Clinton; Samuel Burnap, Fitchburg :;
Joseph H. Dow, Charlton; Moses Dyer, North
bridge; Asa D. Farnsworth, Lancaster; Daniel
A. Hathaway, Warren; George Healy, Dudley;
Simeon Haywood, Millbury Sewell Holbrook,
Worcester; and Simeon Keith, Sutton.
Second Jury Henry S. Mansfield Blackstone,
Foreman Ephraim Kendall, Winehcndon
Daniel Knowlton, IT,, Holden; Dwight B. Look,
Leominster; Lyman Moore, Bolton; Estes Smith,
Worcester; George Smith, Westminster John
Smith, Barre Joseph Temple, Shrewsbury !;
Grin Trow, Hardwiek; Benz. F. Washburn, Wor-
cester; Erastus W. Wheeler, Worcester.
Sups1Namaar1es William Bragg, Milford ;;
Sidney r. Wilder, Sterling; John Winch, North
borough; Moses Wood. Westborough.
William Butler, late of Seymour, Ct, and Sa-
rah Lloyd, of the same place, pleaded guilty to
the charge of committing adultery, at Fitchburg,
in this State. The counsel E. B. Stoddard, Esq :,
besought the lenicncy of the Court, aud stated
that the prisoners had associated themselves with
low class of so called spritualists, and had be-
come lax in Their morals. from entertaining the
opinions of these people Butler was sentenced
to u months in the House of Correction; and
Mrs. Lloyd, to II months in the House of Cor
rection.
John N. Grover, constable of Dana, was indict-
ed for refusing to read to Rev. B. n. Bullock the
process on which he arrested the said Bullock, at
Dana, in July, 1854. He entered mol pros,
and was fined twenty dollars and costs. c. K.
Wetherell Esq, for defence.
Franklin Wilder, of Boylston, indicted for
sending threatening letters to Rufus Hastings, of
Sterling, was found not guilty by reason of in
sanity
James Sullivan and Michael Burke, of Worces-
ter, two boys about fourteen years of age each,
were sentenced, severaly, to two years and six
months in the House of Correction. They wero
sentenced to eighteen months confinement in the
House of Correction, each, upon a second charge
of shopbreaking, the latter sentence to take effect
Immediately upon the expiration of the first
John Heay, boy about fourteen years of age,
for participation in the offences committed by
Sullivan and Burke, was sentenced to eighteen
months in the House of Correction for the first,
and to six months in the House of Correction for
the second.
Francis Humes,2f Holden, boy about seven
teen years of ago, indicted for an assault with in
tent to ravish Abby J. Sawin, a little girl about
eleven years of age, pleaded guilty. Sentence
deferred.
Robert Miller, late of Southbridge, for larceny,
was sentenced to fifteen months hard labor in the
House Of Correction.
George n. Phelps, Of Fitchburg, boy about
fifteen years of age, was anaigned on the charge
of stealing from Seth P. Tyler, of Fitchburg, one
ten dollar bill and three five dollar bills on the
Fitehburg Bank, on about the first of January
last.
The case was not finished when the Court ad.
journed, to nine o'clock this friday morning