Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-11-09
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Trowerse Curtis, murder OF James II ,tyys.
Norman Taylor, rape on Lizzie Bailey. SsSs,,
uel Davis, conspiracy; Charles Cb' Sc iar.
cepy; Charles Stewart, assault wi Oh intent
uel Makel, rape on Mary Snow awranca
Bird, assault with intent To XIII, i. q PIng,e
also highway robbery; Rot ert Blackburn
assault with intent to kill. Pnss Oahjev la,
ceny; George Degges, as fault with intent IN
ktll; Andrew Ashton, larceny and burglary:
Green; Samuel Seals also rape on Isabella
Campbell, assau It with intent to XIII.
Jonh Colnns charged with grand larceny
pleaa ,gul.ty,' and was sentenced To
resumips his seat In the prisoners box re-
marked GOOD enough could stand on my
head that long"
Frank White, colored, charged with grand
larceny, plead guilty" aud he was given
one year in the penitentiary at hard labor.
TO-DAY.
IRIS morning in the case of James d, Yer
nay, charged with forgery, Mr.. w. y. Cook
hled special pleas and the government filed
o. murreTs and replicatIons to the pleas,
Whltn me court passed on pro forma. and the
defendant entered plea of not guilty. Jas.
thompson and Byron NOEL, larceny, plead
not guilty. Thomas j. Montgomery, lar
csny; not guilty. Bernard May, abortion;
guilty. Angelette Allen, charged with an
assault and battery on Mary Fitzgerald
was called, and Mr.. d. L. Cahili was assigned
to her defence. The prosecuting witness tes-
Mr. Cahll raised the point that the iudict-
ment would rot hold and the court sustained
this plea and discharged the prisoner, who
Jumred up and shouted, Thank YOU" and
went out whooping.
CIRCUIT CoURT-Jlnlqe Ctrrtfer
To-day, Blagden ct al. agt. Clark; Judgment
ior plaintiffs; set-of Withdrawn, with leave
TO sue for IL, and statute OF limitations not to
he pleaded. Washington City Savings Bank
agt Mccarthy; verdict for plaintiff.
EQUITY COURr-JucJge WsRe
Yesterday, Hunt agt. Hunt order OF refer.
erce. Fodrey agt. VOdrey; order directs 1g
distribution. In re. Mary Pinn: order deny7
ing prayer. Hare agt Fletcher; decree Of
release Redfern agt, Dillow; order modify
Bank agt. CrusOr; decree niSi ratiryinp sale
Grant agt. Freedmens s. and +. Co; order
mat testimony Of complainant he taken in
open court. Painter agt. Drane: Orter of
reference 10 state account.
TO-DAY.
Thorn agt. Lynch; decree TO sale Ander-
son agt Ashly; do. Sturgis agt. Holiday;
do. Lee agt. Simpson; decree for partitio1'
Mcnamara sgt. Adams; order dismissing
bill. Lake sgt. Howard University; denur.
Ter overruled; with leave to answer. Hart
ley agt: Freedmen's Savings and Trust Com
paDy; do.
POLICE CoURr-Juetos Shell
To-day, Lewis Wilson, assault and bat
terry on Alice Lewis, his wife-said ne inst
slapped her In the face Alice said she
didn't want to prosecute Lewis, so the court
slapped fine on him of 50. Everett Jones.
S0nse in e6 ans6as VIII keeping dsordery
man named Mitchell testified that Constant
nghting was the order of things there for the
last two months. There were six or eight
women and as many men and bows of The
worst class lOafing there, and the scenes en-
acted were too bad to describe; il was a scan
dal TO the neighbOrhoOd; fined S25 or thirty
days. Grant Reddick, a little white how
charged by his mother with being idle and
lncorrgtble. Mrs. Reddick testified that she
was lone woman and had TO go out to work
r-0 g n huI h1,r
control over him. she wished him sent To the
Reform school; SO ordered. Thomas Jackson
assault and battery on George T.. Pinket; Is.
Lafayette Allison, assault and battery On
Carrie Jones, colored; 50 and costs lanes
Hines, cOlOred assault and battery on John
r. Claeett, striking him on the head with a
stone While he was walking with a woman
Jealousy appeared to have been the cause of
me o1ficulty. For the defence, Susan Ann
Johnson, the woman in question, testified
t th JIM cut Johns head with stone, and
then John cut Jims head with a stone; -,
or thirty days. Larry Grant and George
Neitzy, jr., charged with grand larceny of n
horse and buggy from Christian Bucheler,
interpreter, testified that he hitched his
morse at Letters garden, and was inside
nan an houT when he came out his horse
was gone, ard he afterwards found the prom
erfy In the hands OF these men, who said 10
explanation that they were drunk There
appeared to have been no felonious in
Dennis SULTAN. assault and battery on Ell.
len, his wife; IS and costs. Ernest LOefiiar
and William jordan. assault and battery on
Lawrence Grant. This grew out Of dis
furbance which took place in Loeff1er's gar
den between some young men VINO were
drinking pretty freely of beer, and were
10 leave, and they resisted. \ scuffie fol-
lowed. and blows were struck. Grant testi-
ned that five of Loefiier's crowd attacked
MIN and cut his head badly. DIR. TAYLOR tes-
titled TO dressing Grants wounds and at
tending him some ten days. He was sur-
prlsed that the skull was not fractured from
the severe confusion on the scalp. Another
witness testified that Loeffier Struck COM
plainant four or five blows on the head
with q heavy club while he was down
For o Sefn was Nh IN progress at the time
private party Of Germans enjoying them
selves, when these young men came in and
Conducted themselves In a very disorderly
manner. and used grossly indecent language.
racine measures were tried to get them to
leave, but the rOwdies resisted all impOrtuni-
ties. Grant bad knife and a pistol and
had no club, nor used any. Mrs Kate Jochum
testified to seeing Grant draw a knife and
advance to Loffler. She gave the latter
recalled, testified that Grant had no knife
The fuss broke up the party. Mr.. Norris,
counsel for defendant, commended that no
preserve order in the house. which defendant
had right to do. Mr.. Wells, for the govern
ment, contended that the assault was un-
ouu unnecessary, especial
ly beating complainant while he was
down. The court held that defendant did
not use the prudence which the cir
cumstances called for and fined Loeffier $50
and Jordan $50 and costs Appeal taken.
Chas. Murray was sent to the chain gang for
vsgrancy. John Douglass, open profanity
In public hall; S. Edward Carter, do; 81,
John Simms, do; As. Robert SmallwoOd.
street cursing; forfeited collateral. George
Burns, forfeited. Jas. Woods, do. Richard
Hardness. do. Jas. Ford, do. Edward Wade
ard Geo. Reardon, do. Jos. Gress do Chas.
Williams was sent down for vagrancy. John
d; simms: same charge; down. Tobias
simpson, street profanity; IS. VIM. Charles.
cursing; IS. VIM. Hayes, do; IS. Henry
Cadman, razor hourisher, was fined $50 or
sixty days: Henry Thomas, disorderly con-
duct; -. VIM. Hoffman, loud; s5. John r..
j ardeila and John Howard, loud and bois-
ferrous; 50 each. Geo. Taylor, VIM. Brown
Samuel Javins, Lewis Smith, Jesse Brown
hone Ferguson and John Page, disOrderly
assembly In west end shanty. The officer
told rather hard story about the sc chaps.
ana the court imposed a fine OF s5 on each of
them.
@In England judge has decided that Won
rooster. '
Ex-Governor Hartranft has appointed No.
veInber . as day OF Thanksgiving in PENN
sylvania.