The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-29
LEGAL INTELLIG ENCE.

COURT OF QUARTER oNS-Judge Ludlow.
Robert swain, who was charged with me murder OF
washington aam0n' IN Th CO we notice. % ,ne g9or
MIR Cassidy representing the commonwealth, stat ID
monweHlth ad not been lned by that body, put
only those who were notoIiousiy tor the defsudant
spread lumor that swslu was to be set free by his
well established practice OF This Court in order
Injustice should not be done he would ask his houor
Jury o be iu ly and completely acted upon.
ing h M pa these
the Court OF would not with the con-
IL to the %S
to Examine % all the r asS exercise
witnesses who were in attendance were heard. II was
the practice In murder cases TO send the bills before
.de is fresh in the recoecti, of ali. This course
Ignored bS the Grand jury II the Grand jury we're
witness was not ir attendance the business Of the
Court would be seriously impeded; and in this
su6r1nss were placed In the hands of the proper
Cassidy replied that he denied 1t to be the prac-
tce the court TO hurry In bills in murder cases be-
asserted that they were always kept back until the
hext term M Of the court Here, The wounded man not
put before the Grand Jury, who made equal ha ,te,
the prisoner, TO Ignore The bill.
And this in the face of the opinion OF the learned
iayestlgst9n, ON habeas corpus decided that primo
Out, and committed the pIsoaer 70 await tria re
fusng TO rake bar. He Thought this should not be
ioierat91d, lhat pariisaa a. moIye' should not
Of branch of this Court; he would say partisan
cases not ofpersous confined in Moy g. hose
liberation would tighten the lrden of the prso bat
the Grand Jury and only Or the that IL was
understood they wouid be ignored.
lroof was made by o hcer John Porter that certain
knew the practice had ALWAYS been to return oils
fae S % where 6 on had h not
back during the term of the Judge to whom the
applich,io Ion was made. or whether he had power to
send II back TO the grand Jury of the term held
by SOD other judge. Therefore he held the matter
under advisement.
TO bill ol indictment MARI ed true bu against
Alderman Williams saying that ne could not uader-
stand how the paper had ount 1 9 way into Court ut
this time, for The preliminary hearing before q M a.
gistrate did not occur unit O'CLOCK yesterday
the rand Jury llin OF speakiog had no ad no
return to the Eonrt this morning; therefore he would
The District Attorney explained that In the exer.
@ sse 9 81 fee IS GS%eF p66h hi ofcia responsi So
blity viii hout any previnus hearing. aud the Grand
that the bill had been by the Grand Jury at
noon yesterday. and his Honor, saying this settled
DISTRICT COURT No. fudge stroud.-Fltz.
paritk ys Fitzpatrick before reported. Verdict for
The Germantown Methodist Church vs. Jerome
Vonneida and Emma Nonneida. An action brought
TO Try the right 70 an aey way running between the
DISTRICT COURT NO. 2-Judge Hare.-Binder.
Beck & Co. VS.. Hertz ct al Before reported. Verdict
Patrick Campbell VS.. John o'NeilI. An action of
trover TO recover or d.tillng apparatus alleged to
COURT OF COMMON PLEAs.-Judge ge Fierce
In he alter OF toe office OF City Solicitor Villa u
tion of require1 of cIizens contesng the
recent election. The petition is substantially the
fled with ten days notice to the parties returned
therein, and fixed November IA for the hearing.