The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-27
LAW INTELLIGENCE.

CRIMINAL COURT-JUDGE BOND.
On the opening of the Court, Mr.. Whitney said
he wished to correct statement, headed ''IIard
Case" made in the ''l0ca column" of the Exchange
newspaper, which referred to the case of John Wes
ley Watkins, indicted in this Court for picking the
pocket of named William Patten. Mr..
Whitney then read portions of the report referred
to, which stated that Watkins at liberty, and
that Patten, being stranger, was committed to
jail in default of security to appear as the States
witness, and was still incarcerated. The 'item"
closed with the paragraph: ''SOme people think it
is pretty near time this called for trial"
The facts in regard to this matter, Mr.. Whitney
said, were these: Watkins was indicted in this
Court on the 18th September. Three days after
the was called for trial, but was postponed
at the request of counsel for defence, the ground
that witnesses were not present, and the trial was
then set down for the 26th day of September. On
that day the again called, the State being
ready to proceed, but the prisoner requested re-
moval of the case, made the oath, and the record
was sent to Anne Arundel County Court. These
the facts in the case shown by the docket OF
the Court--The Court said, it doubted whether
any man in the community thought of the case.
1t recollected very well the facts connected with
it, the called twice by the State, and the
second time, when the trial was fixed peremptoriy
the prisoner exercised his constitutional right, and
desired a removal. The Court hoped that Mr..
Whitney hereafter would not notice any newspaper
articles; they were almost all of them-and the
present one was not an eXception--wrltten
by those who showed utter ignorance Of the true
Court and States Attorney could not manage the
affairs of the Court they wonld resign their posi-
tions and let somebody else undertake their duties.
Mir. Whitney replied, that he desired to make
no general comments in regard to the case, he sim
ply desired to set it in its position before the
| puplic.-Mary McCarty, Thomas Flynn, Robert
Williams, Louisa Stewart Ann Moncrief Susan Todd,
Laura Beck Ben jamin Jones and Mary Parr sever
| ally indicted for assau!ting and robbing Henry Hop
kins of about one hundred and eighty dollars, alleged
to have been committed on the night of the 4th OF
| October, arraigned and each pleaded not
| guilty. Wm II. COwan, Esq, appeared for Misses
! McCarty and Stewart; S. A. Leakin, Esq, for
! Miss Parr. The others having no counsel, the
! Court requested Mr.. Cowan to defend them, and
! Wednesday next was fixed for the trial Robert
! Williams desired to remove his case, and max
ing the usual oath, the Court order
ed the record to be sent to Anne Arundel coun-
! ty.-Louis Ward, indicted jointly with Andrew
B. Sterling for robbing Mr.. Samuel White, was ar
raigned and pleaded not guilty. Brown
indicted for stealing one neck-tie, valued
at 25 cents, belonging to James Aexan
der, arraigned and pleaded not guilty
The special panel of jurors-having served twenty
one days of the term, the allotted time-were
finally discharged, with the thanks OF the Court
The Court expressed itself as being much pleased
with the satisfactory manner in which the gentle
men of the panel had performed their duties. By
reference to the docket of the Court, it would be
seen that not single motion for new trial hao
been made in any case which had been tried by
the jury during this term.-State Michae
Burns indicted for attempting to vote illegally at the
I'd precinct of the 18th ward polls the last election
day. Tried before the Court. The witnesses for the
State were examined, but their testimony failed tt
| sustain the indictment. Adiudged not guilty.
State as. John Saunders, indicted for causing and
procuring Michael Burns to vote illegally at the %
precinct of the 18th ward polls. Tried before the
| Court. Testimony same as in former case. Ad
| Judged not gutv.-The Grand Jury directed the
Clerk to summon before them forty-one of tht
Judges of the late eection.-The Court adjourned
at l219 o'clock until this morning.
PETIT jury FOR THE CRIMINAL CoURT-The fol
lowing gentlemen have been drawn according tC
law, by Sheriff Dutton, to act as jurors for the Sc
cond three weeks of the September (present) tern
of the Criminal Court:-John Hoffman, Michae
Hoffman, Jr., Addison Medcalfe, Samuel Edmonds
George g. DefOrd, Thomas Il. Grubb, John ). Gil
man, J. Chase Orem, Charles E. Gardner, George
T. Gosnell, Henry NcCaffrey, Charles Howard, Jr.
J. II. Hogg, Joseph Crosby, Felix McCurley, Jehu
| Gorsuch, Joseph Cromwell, G. R. Coleman, JoshuS
r. Dryden, Robert NJ. Smith, G. 7. Hopkins
Thomas Hill, William II. II. Turner, William r
Hurst, Henry Carr.
SUPERIOR CoURT-JuDGE MARTIN.
John II. Berry Us. I. b. Scott. Before re
ported Not concluded. for Monda'
241 to 262.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS-JUDGE MARSHALL.
VIM. Rullman rs. Joshua Pusey. An appea
from Justice Logan. Judgment afiirmedTMar ar
garet NJ. Duncan as. E. Connolly. Appeal from
Justice Mckinley. Judgment affirmed. ed.-Assign
ment l5S to Isl.
| ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CoURT-JUDGE BREWER
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Oct. &c, lS60.-The trial docke
was resumed to-day, and the entire day occupied il
the case of Charles Crook Us. Henry j. Williams,
an action brought for the alleged obstruction OF
| public road leading to the plaintiffs mill. OI
trial.
This morning Sheriff Ireland visited the Jail, and
by rule, informed Leonard Gray that the Grant
jury had found a true bill against him for murder
| He also informed Geo. W. Freeman of the indct
| E,,,pI inn for ur1n hi
| brother-in-law and also Mary Naler (colored)
that true bill had been found against her for th
murder of her master and his family, by poison
and warned them separately to prepare for trial.
THE Douglas and johnson mass meeting cam
off at the court house last night. Some three hun
dred persons were present, who were addressed b,
S. D. Gouveneur, Esq, of Frederick, Joseph )
Stewart, Esq, of baltimore county, ana 'er'i
Spencer, ESQ, of Baltimore city.
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REpPArE IN HAYrr.-James Redpath, a wei
known abolitionist, and friend of John Brown
was the recipient of popular ovation at Fort a.
Prince, Havti on the 9th of September, on th
occasion of his return to the United States.
Among the other sentiments offered during tn
evening were the following:
"Honor honor, honor to Thaddeus Hyatt, tn
fervent abolitionist the soldier of the great
the apostle of humanity, the friend Of John Brow
and Redpath.
"Honor, a thousand times honor, to the memor
of our welbeloved brother and our exceller
friend, John Brown, the illusrious martyr of tn
cause of African freedom. May he enjoy the benz
diction of Cod
"Let us drink to the Master of Thought, to tn
King of Poesy, to the grandest and most beautift
personihcation of modern dem0cracy-let us drin
to Victor Hugo"
Cuvier paid to Audubon the highest comp linen
probably that be ever received, when he called D
} Ornithology "the most gigantic and most magnli
/ cent monument that had ever been erected
J nature"