The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-11-27

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The next case taken up was that Of Frank
spaulding, charged with appropariating are; re-
volver, the property of Ben. M. Armstrong,
Esq. To the question 'guilty or not guilty ~
Frank scorned to answer falsely, and therefore
like true man said "guilty, your Honor" For
which noble conduct the Judge rewarded him
| with free ticket for board at Joe Palmer's
hospitabe table for two months,
! The next "caser that received attention was
{ John Lockery. John had taken laundering
after stylish robe, the property of Lorenzo
Leland, Esq. Lockery lodged the question of
guilty or not guilty, and suggested that that
was matter for the "Coort" to find out. The
9Coort' did find it out and sentenced John to
the penance of inhaling for two months the
delightful .odors -four county Jail. ~
Adam Clay, also charged with theft, took
change Of venue to Grundy county. e.r,.l
John Neal then had trial. John is La
Sale glass, blower, and during the temporary
stoppage' OF the works last summer, went to
Mendoza on spree. Ensconclng himself un-
der warehouse in that model city, and light
ing match to sire up" his pipe an argus
eyed Mendoza officer arrested him for arson.
But to arrest John was easier than to hold
him. He knocked the officer down and escap-
ed to La Sale, Thyereihe was re-arrested by
another officer, whom John treated to dose
ct cayenne pepper IN the eye, but nevertheless
failed to escape his clutches, and was brought
to Ottawa and locked up. At his trial, the
charge ofarsou couldn't be made to stick s.at
all :" but for his ill-treatment of the august
ministers of the law John was sentenced to
pay fine of S. and board with Joe Palmer
80 days. ~ ma rs~- -rrs, ~ ~
Robert Ferrin was put on trial next for hay
ing, while on 'bust,' slept with Teutonic
friend named Packgrass. with this singular
result; that whereas when the twain went to
bed Packgrass had more money in his pocket
than he had when he got up next morning.
He called upon Ferrln to make good the dit
ference, which he naturally refused to do.
Then Packgrass appealed to ''the country"
and the country said Ferrin was right about
it, ana acquitted him of the charge of petty
larcency
On Monday the trial of the Clancy murder
case was commenced in the Circuit Court, |
blanchard for the state, and O. c. Gray and
E. W. Dewey for the prisoner. The empan-
cling of the jury was somewhat tedious
proceeding and lasted all day. Fifty.four
men were called before the needed 10 were
obtained
Lawrence Clancy is charged with having
murdered his wife at Peru, Oct Goth, last. |
There are two counts in the indictment, one |
OF which charges the prisoner with producing
the death Of his wife by striking her blow
upon the forehead with some piece of iron |
The other charges him with producing her
death by strangulation.
Clancy is shown to have been man of in
temperate habits, and had been in the habit
of abusing his wife, They lived in the city of
Peru, and men of excellent reputation attested
to all these facts. Perhaps his great fault may
be more incorporate than passionate temper.
The facts are these:
Clancy went home on the evening of the
death or murder, with can of oysters She
went with him into one of the rooms, or the
middle room, and he says fell upon stove
and cut her head badly; but eminent physi-
clans testify that the wounds on her head
would not necessarily have produced death.
Yet she was found dead. Clancy went to
seek his neighbors, and said his wife was dead,
and that he required help. The evidence is
as follows:
The examination of witnesses on behalf of
The prosecution was commenced on Tuesday,
Mrs. Francis P. Wellington being first called
TO the stand Her testimony related entirely
10 the facts that TRANSFERRED on the night of
the death Of Mrs. Clancy. 1t appeared from
her evidence that some time about or half
past o'clock at night Mr.. Clancy came to
her house and knocked at her door /; but be-
fore It could be opened, he had walked in, and
addressed Mrs. Wellington's family by saying
You must come over to my house, Mrs.
Wellington y or, my wife is killed" She re-
Piled mo, that cannot be So" He said
Yes, it is So" She further testified to the
amiable character Of Mrs. Clancy, and to her
being woman enjoying an ordinary degree
Of health that Mr.. Clancy was in the habit of
drinking whiskey, and that on the night of