The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-16
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.

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let An action for damages for false arrest. Before
reported. Verdict for plaintiff for $500.
cover damages for injuries alleged to have sus-
tained by being assaulted and wounded by the de-
II was forth that the 22d OF August 1866 while
Without provocaton, attacked the pIai6tif with a
and inflicted such serious cuts upon him, that he
ee e put at ssesS are eame the IN on S os
trial. Hunsicker for plaintiff; Simpson Tor defen'
0'i UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT Judge
Cadwalader-Chares Gilpin and John x. Valentine
aA Charged n proeuSng pr the execution
OF fslse bonds, whereby the Government was de.
frauded of large sum OF money before reported, the
jury. after having remained out Saturday night yes
Sct or SSty Vim Observation-Disclosures an to ne ercy ye of
the Court A motion for a new trial was made this
United states VS., Timothy ,MoCarty. In this case
ness Of adj dstLlleT without paying the special tax It
llery was found In operation and the defendant
out by the defendants. but that had expired in May
1857 and new one for this year was not taken out
dstillery was testified that there was no
whether or not distiiIer, who was not assessed
could be convicted criminaly for distilng without
report had not been decided. -.--- '4e O.'''
ster-The second period OF the November term began
this morning. a new panel Of jurors was returned
plications for excuse from services
Thomas Smith was convicted OF charge OF the lar
ceny Of coat belonging to Rodney Wenderoth. The
prisoner went to DR.. Allis's office and found the
Doctor out and Wenderoth alone in the Office. After
sitting awhile apparently waiting for the Doctors
return, he suddenly jumped up from his seat, aud
going through some most astonishing spasms called
The frightened boy hasteued cut of the room to
fetch the water but on his return he found the sick
man, ana an overcoat he had left hanging on the
wall had disappeared The prisoner was afterwards
arrested with the coat on his person.
elizabeth Moran was acquitted OF charge OF the
larceny of clothing.
William Adams acquitted of a charge Of mali
ciously iujurnE wooden post belonging to Robert
Ramsey. The prosecutor not appearing, the bill was
submitted without evidence.
r. H. Gallagher was charged with assault and bat
on the afternoon of November 20 he hailed car OF
the Union Line at Eleventh and Wallace Streets but
In order to get Into 1t he had to to Ninth street.
He then set down in small space between n lady
The lady soon left the car and he then offered his
fare TO the conductor, the defendant which was at
first unnotced ,and was then taken up. Farther down
Seventh street the conductor asked him for his fare,
and he replied that he had paid 10.
The conductor would not remember and finally he
took hold of him, and roughly elected him from the
He afterwards tried TO get on, ana The conduc:
tor kicked him In the side The Doctor said he had
been very sick, and was then very weak.
The defendant stated that when the Doctor got
into the car, he rudely sat right down upon lady,
and the lady Immediately stood up, The conductor
told him he wonld have TO give the lady her seat or
leave the and he said he would do neither After
wards, when the lady had lett the car and the dihi
Guilty Ihad subsidized he asked the Doctor for his
him out. When he tried to get on again, the con.
ductor put out his foot and prevented It. On trial.
COURT or QUARTER SESSIONS-Judge Ludlow
The second period of the Term began in this Court
The morning taken up in the trial Of assault aud
battery cases.