The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-06-29

jnry accordance with the opinion expressed by
Dr. LOCKWOOD. viz: That he died of paralysis
Court OF GENERAL SESSIONS AND COMMON PLEAS
The of The State JAMES SULLIVAN Lsrccny,
| the first taken up.
The Attorney. appeared the State, and T.
P. RYAN. Esq, and j. b. COHEN, Esq. for tho de-
| fence.
Tho following Jury cmpannelled ". KrnKwooD.
| Foreman; o. WATERMAN, N. DEvEREux. ]. D. JACOB.
owsK1 NJ. KENNEDY, SAMUEL SASpEHs G. VoicT, ". q.
TRorT, ]. A. BLoDGER J. h. PAuLs, c. VoLMER, b. q.
| HATCHER.
The indictment charged that JAMES SULLIVAN stole
from the shop Of Mr.. W. DAVIS number of keys,
picklochs. &c.
The Attorney General In few brief remarks defined
| tho crimo of Grand Larceny.
| Mr. David W. Davis the first witness. deposed: That
he is loekamh aud belhanger his store is In Meeting
Keys &c. from his establishment; was called upon by
the police SEQ If keys &c found his, and
identified them; tho morning he missed the articles he
found everything in his store In confusion; he kept
cognized tho tools, Keys &c, which handed to
him to identify and explained the uso OF them to the
Cro.s-ezamined-Kno that the articles his from
| tho fact that he made many of them himself.
Examined in repy-His store door was locked in the
| Lieut. II. ". Hendricks deposed That tho stolen
ticles brought to tho Guard house by Mr Quinn;
he sent for different parties identify them, and Mr..
Davis described them accurately before he them;
4 ID.
Cross-ezamined-Suspected prisoner 40 being con-
nccted with gang OF burglars. and arrested him &C.
]. F. Quinn deposed That he only delivered the pick
locks ut the Guard Honse1 got them from his sister,
before at the Red Lamp; supposed he was boarding
there.
Crosseraminsa.- The prisoner had been steamer
running to Hilton Head.
| - - deposed That she received the keys from
she only kept them night when her brother took
them away; had never seen the other articles; don't
know where Sullivan got them from.
W. Albert deposed that hs had kn,wn the prisoner
abeu month; he had been given bundle OF keys to
the whole Of them; Clear who boarded at Mrs Ludo.
vchs him the keys to throw away Sullivan claim
man named Stanton received them for Sullivan and
hid them; thought that he recognized the cloth the
keys were wrapped I, tn hpt m had never o. opened it.
never saw them; sullivan claimed portion ot tho bum
die as his property and ho carried the whole bundle to
Examined in reply.-Does not know how Sullivan
heard that Clear mad given him the bundle to throw
away brought the bundle from where he had thrown 1t
and carried It to Sullivan.
j. Coates deposed that he had received information
that Sullivan claim ID nome Keys, 30 won't to the Re
Lamp with Lieut. Hendricks and arrested him prisoner
denied all knowledge OF the articles.
The defence having no testim ony to advance T. P.
RYAN Esq, of the prisoners counssl, ably argued
his clients case, and shovel that the evi1encs as
merely OF crcumstantal nature. The Attorney Gene
raj followed and in olesr concis, manner argusd the
case for the State. j. B. coHEs Esq, CLOSED the
In eloquent argument. Judge DAwKrSs ch ,rged the
jury, who returned q verdict of Guilty. ASA"
The next the docket the State Us. DAN lei
HUdHHEART, for Larceny.
The Attorney General appeared for the State. R.
SEYMOUR, Esq, and ASHER D. CoHgN, Esq., for the dc
fence.
The following Jury empannelled L. CRANE Fore
man; J. g. PAULs. F. BENJAMIN. E. COSTELLO. O. T1EDE
= MAN, O. VoLMER, N. DEyEREUx, w. 9. HAsrIR, j. A
BLopGEn, O. VoIoT, E. W. MARKLEY D. G. HATCHER
The ndictn ent charged that tho prisoner had stoer
money, the properly of Arr. DoMts1cK MORTON.
, Mr. Dominick Morton deposed that between Saturday
and Mond.y, in the early part of June. he missed h
money; the bills 20s, los and 5s had the none!
valise in his iandady's room; he boarded at No.
trunk was locked and he had the key aud it was
4 on Moaday. when he missed the money; got druul
Saturday night and was carried to the Guard House
landlady advanced the money. and when hs got clear
TO %
merssrset; had the key Of his vaise with him in tn
o Guard House did not ask the landlady to keep hi
wm Mace deposed that he knew tho prisoner; that
he always had money: heard of the loss of Norton
% money: prisoner asked him to take walk with him
s and showed him $40 on Monday morning; the sam
day he heard Of the loss; when prisoner couned th
- money he dropped twenty and two TENS whicn HI
picked up and gave to HIM they wont to ths Four
got acquainted with Hughhesrt and Morton at IT,
r boardng.house saw Morton on Mondy afternoon
Observation-Disclosures was In United States SGT
vice teamster; was An industrious character
always Hughheart with money; wrote to Hugh
hearts father him once requesting him send Of
=. some money to him; prisoner was anxious to get
1t team and asked Morton to In with HIM; Morton salt
n he had only s20 did not have much do with Nor
ID ton: Hughheart had lost himself at his board
ing-houae little girl had taken 1t.
,r Examined in repiy.-Had seen Hughheart with $50
500 of that size frequenly prisoner told hin
that he got the s44o from the North In answer to tn
d letter W. itten.
a Domiuick Morton, re.examned. dsposed That Hugh
heart had ke that fitted his trunk, because he lost hi
u hey Hughheart lent him key that opened il
e This about 20 months before his loss
10 Crosseramined Bis valise OF the usual style
r. the landlady knew that Hughhearts key opened hi
yailse; had been In jai tried and acquitted las
term, then went to New York. and when he returne
he had the money had returned about two weeks:
n +. Farrell, Detective deposed That when Morto
was released from the Guard House he informed him
10 his oas and he arrested Hughheart the suspeoe
person Morton made an affidavit TO that eect searct
ed Hughheart when he carried him to the Guard Hous
Oh but found money him; Hughhe art stated that
s had received large sum from home; don't know IL
r. amount.
- Lieut. q. W. Hendricks deposed that he assisted
" In the and searched him at the guard house.
found nothing him. He denied having had any arg
ry amount Of money.
y OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES him thoroughly but foun
ho VIM. Mace-Re.ezamined-w intimate with th
prisoner, but knew Morton slightly |; Hughheart ha
given him the clothes he had on.
-. Crosstrdmin<d-Is New Yorker Prisoner had com
planned that some one had taken key from hts ring
the boarding house, searched but could not fnd It. III
- key lost the key of his vaiBe-it was q com mo
ep valise y
ar Tho Attorney General declined arguing the case
ve could not charge the prisoner With the guilt II
for the defence also declined. and the Jud
ed left the mster to the Jury, who With lowing the
he sests, returned verdict of Not Guilty.
In the OF the State Wood and Klein, for nui
B. ance tried on Wednesday the Jury returned scale
d, verdict Of Guilty.