The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-28
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New Rule of Court.

The attention of members of the bar and all others
interested is called to the following order made in
the Court OF Common Pleas-
Sand now, October 26 1870, it is ordered that
Of the causes beyond the 25th will be called for
@ a ON ON oa aG@ on none the @ e
on Wednesday. The remaining will be
called on each day thereafter until they are dis
posed Of"
Cour. Of Oyer and Ternsiner-Judges LudloW and
PdISOn.
The trial of Policeman Charles Max for the MUIR
der of James p Walsh was concluded last evening.
Judge Ludlow delivered the charge of the COURT
deliberation OF fifteen or twenty inmates returned
a verdict Of not guilty.
The shines Homicide.
The case put on trial to-day was that of Michael
Welsh, young man of nineteen or twenty, charged
with taking the life of a youth named Samuel j.
aI o the n OF on SSy
James Donnelly was indicted with Welsh, but the
Grand Jury guored the Indictment and conse-
by John OByrne, Esq. A jury was selected in ten
minutes, no challenges being exercised by counsel
on either side. The facts, as alleged by the Com
Shines was sitting in the coal yard when the de-
fendant and Donnely entered and engaged him in
and Welsh offered to fight Smes who retreated into
the office, pursued by Welsh, and then into the
street, where they seized each other. In the scule
striking the railroad track, death resulting from the
all the District Attorney said he would leave the
Jury to determine. The case is yet on trial.
The Grand Jury Labor Under a Mistake.
Several days ago the Grand Jury made q special
presentment to the Court, setting forth that they
found several persons lying in the County Prison
without legal process for their incarceration that is
without any charges having been preferred against
them and without the means or appealing TO the
Court through the ordinary channels, and there
fore they asked the Court to take such speedy
action for their relief they deemed proper They
referred specially to the colored men who said
to have been brought on from Baltimore at election
time for fraudulent purposes. AT the
time Judge Ludlow emphaticaly said the Grand
taken impression, and that the state of facts repre-
sented did not and could not exist. He ordered an
immediate investigation into the matter TO be insti
tuted and prosecuted, and this morning when the
Grand Jury came in he showed them the certificate
of the prison keeper that no person was coutined
there who had not been regularly committed by a
magistrate, and he produced the commitments under
sent to prison in default of bail to await TRIAL at the
next term of the Court and since the mention of the
case by the Grand Jury, the District Attorney had
caused indictments to be prepared against these
men in advance OF other cases having equal
claim upon his attention. He repeated that IL was
utterly Impossible for man TO be unla gfully de-
prved of his liberty for more than hour for the
writs OF habeas corpus, which were to be had
for the mere asking. He was happy to say that ID
the only cases the Grand Jury had seen 1t TO make
any mention, neither the prison Keepers the District
Attorney nor the Court had been in the least un
mindful Of their duties.
A Grand Juror asked II an alderman had the righ
to commit to prison for the nonpayment OF his costs
had and in others he had not.
The Grand Jurors then retired.