The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-19
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF QUARTER SESSIoNS-Judge PeIrce-
cases were resumed in this court. -. I,iI
Maria Baxter was acquitted of charge of assault
John Mecalla was ACQUITTED of charge of larceny;
upon cross charges Of assault and battery upon each
olher. Smith testified that he was attacked BY Van
Knocked down. kicked, and bruised up generally.
oacheS b sb sooR * his S IN
his lace, and then he threw him TO the pavement; ne
ing him upon the pavement. Verdict guilty to
coGRT OF OF 6UAR II FER sEssioNs-Judge Ludlow
WTIlSm b. & Man Mann r,aI District strict
Inc state of facts as made out BY the Commonweaths
year ago. The mistress Of the house No. ISi0 Wood
& s whGh pf Es y aen hqHss the f "a ame & oae % 1gh
house with couple of companions, and the mistress
and threatened to burn down the house he went
panions.
after this he was heard, but not seen, to leave the
room he had been In discovered to ali ablaze
However, before serious damage had been done. the
fire eXtinguished. Upon examination by Fire
Marshal Blackburn the fire was pronounced to have
witness ior the defense testified that on that night
another person than the defendant left the house that
evening in anger with the inmates; and it
attempted to throw the suspicion from the defendant
The jury rendered verdict of guilty. and recon.
mended the pr oner to the mercy of the Court
sauit and battery upon Mary Hassan. Mary, Hassau
vice with Mrs. Meinicb, but had not been paid. On
the 4th OF last month she called upon Mrs. Menich
and asked for the master OF the house, in order that
she might get her wages from him. Mrs Meinich
then called her a drunken catfish" and knocked
her down.
her noise, raising disturbance in the house. ana re
fused go out when ordered to do The defendant
without using unnecessary Violence put her out
Asa q. Adams was charged with the larceny of
three bonnet frames and band-box, valued at 1915,
belonging to Charles Arnold. The defendant
sitting in tavern where this bandboX had been left
and when he thought he was unobserved he picked
snd endeavored TO make of with II. The landlord
caught him. and ask ed him what he meant. He said
he thought It belonged to him. Verdict not guilty.
Isaac Breidenbach charged with receiving
goods. knowing them to have been stolen. James
Benner testified that his son and another boy had
stolen from him several gold coins and some silver,
together amounting TO NS3OO aud sold the greater
portion of it TO a tobacconst I'm Second street. above
Girard avenue. But about the defendant he knew
nothing positively.
John Hitter stated that Samuel Benner, the prose-
cutors son, gave him some gold and silver and told
him to sell IL. He LOOK II TO Breidenbach and sold
some of IL to him. This latter witness crosse
animation, stated that when he was first before the
Alderman he did not take oath, but he did say that
he did not say he had sold money TO the defendant
because Samuel Benner had told him not TO- but after
wards his mother told him To make clean breast or
II, and at the second hearing he did so.
The defense proved excellent character, and It
was put TO the fury, whether man who has struggled
for lifetime to establish q fair name, and who has
succeeded in doing, is to be literally damned.
blasted ruined upon the bare oath OF one man, who
Isl by his own wofds, acknowledged thief, vaga.
bond. and scapegrace. Jury out.