Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-12
alto County Sntelligentr.


first term of the Superior Court for this coun
ty, for the trial of criminal causes, was com
menced at Fitchburg on Monday, Chief Jus
tice Allen presiding The grand jury report
ed the result of their investigations Thursday
morning. In twenty of the forty-one cases
before them, the parties were in Jail. The
traverse juries, empannelled, were constituted
as follows;
First Juy-Charles Brigham of Grafton
/ foreman; John Anderson OF Oxford George
! S. Burrage of Ashburnham Moses a. Dan
iels of Blackstone; Aretas ID. Gilbert of West
| Brookfield; VIM. Goodale of Clinton; John
/ NJ Harris OF Fitchburg; Lewis Holden Of
! Charlton Silas Howe of Holden James W
| Hunt of Athol; John X. James OF Worcester
Edward Knowles of Leicester.
| Second Juy-Lyman Peck of Royaston,
| foreman; Benjamin B. Lincoln of Millbury,
Luther Longley of Leominster, Rufus X
| Merriam of Sutton, Levi Miles of Hubbard.
ston, Alfred r. Ordway of Fitchburg, Jessah
/ Page of Westminster, Dwight D. Prouty OF
| Spencer, James Robinson OF Westboro', VIM.
| II. Sadler of Milford, John Simmons OF Wor-
cester. Henry Smith of Templeton.
| upernamerarieS-Henry Stiles of Boylston,
Henry g, Taft of Uxbridge, L. c. Wood ID OF
| Upton, Samuel Woodward of Worcester.
The following arrangements have been made
and sentences pronounced:
Ann Gallagher of Southboro', indicted as
common seller of intoxicating liquors, plead
| guilty. She having a young child the indict-
| ment was placed on file, and the prisoner dis
! charged on her own recognizance, to appear
for sentence at future term of the Conrt.
John Moore for assault on John Hastings, a
| Constable of Sutton, while in the discharge of
his duty as an officer, plead guilty, and was
sentenced three months to the House of Cor
rection
Sherman Jacobs of Worcester, for larceny
of property from Susan NJ. Smith, plead gull
ty, and was sentenced to the House Of Correc
ton for three months.
VIM. Wilson of Barre, for breaking and en-
tering in the night time the house of Asa A.
Rowland of Barre, plead guilty, and was sem
fenced to three years hard labor Tone day so-
tary) i'll the State Prison. Three other indict-
ments were found against the same person.
one for stealing, and two for receiving stolen
goods at Barre, and Peterboro', n. H., to two
OF which was entered a plea of guilty.
William Young of West Boylston, for
breaking and entering the house of Scion l.
Bemis, on the Sth of July last, plead guilty
and was sentenced to the House of Correction
for six months.
Frederick DUN of Worcester for larceny
of money from Louisa Hunt, plead not guilty
Sylvanus Deets of Worcester for breaking
and entering the shop of Warfeld & Rawson,
plead guilty, and was sentenced to the House
of Correction for nine months.
James A. Hartwell of Fitchburg, wilfully
burning the barn of John Sawyer, on the Sth
of May last, plead guilty.
Hiram Ward of Brookfeld, breaking and
destroying furniture, the property of Otis Rey-
nolds, plead not guilty.
Michael Cruden, charged with felonious as
sault was discharged on his own recognizance
to appear at the next term of tile Court at
Worcester
George Robinson and Catherine Severy,
were discharged, no bills having been found
against them.
Thomas Hooahan of Uxbridge, assault on
Tomas Aldrich deputy sheriff, pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced to confinement in
common Jail for thirty days.
The first case brought to trial was that of
George Bartlett of Leicester, indicted for an
assault with intent to ravish the person of Eu.
nice b. Russell, near Hope Cemetery in this
city, on the 18th of July last. Itappears from
the evidence that Miss Russell, girl from New
Hampshire, while passing along Webster street
near Hope Cemetery, on the day above named,
was accosted by the defendant in very unusual
terms, and assaulted i'll violentmanner Her
outcrics alarmed the neighbors, one of whom
tMr. Cooper seasonably rescued her from her
assailant, who was arrested and committed
The jury returned a verdict Of guilty
The case of Andrew Laverty of West
Boylston, was next put upon trial. He was
indicted for feonious assault on the 18th of
June last, upon the person of Ellen NJ. Pierce,
girl Of thirteen or fourteen years, and plead
ed not guilty. Defendant was at the time a
laborer on the farm of VIM. j. Ross, the step
father of the plaintiff. She went into the
pantry to procure his supper, whittier the de-
PENDANT followed her, and committed the crime
with which he is charged. District Attorney
Aldrich was making the closing plea for the
Commonwealth when the cars left for Worces-
ter. Geo. F. Very, Esq. of Worcester, was
counsel for defendant.