Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-09-07
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EQUITY COURT-yiHlge OiiR
To-day, the September term was convened.
UoTt aud for distribution. Appleby ct al. act.
Winston ct al; order appointing guardian
ad item- Cooley agt Cooley, order OF re-
ference. Herr, executor, agt. Holden; decree
pro cCnfeSsO. HeIdley act. Duckett; order
dtsmiSsing petition. Lu1SfoTd IT al. agt.
Lunsford ct al; order confirming auditors
report. CreSsTeU et al. Ggt. Haveuner et
81; order appointing guardian At Iitem.
Scott Set. Scott; order reference 70 examiner.
am Ing agt. flaming; decree ratifyiug trus-
tees sale. Stats agt. P.ge'Ow, motion 10
suppress testimony OverruIed. Cherry agt.
Cherry; order Of reference. Owens agt FOs-
key e. al; order Of ratification Of sale Sate
Bcrland Ct al. agt. BOr,aDd ct al; decree aJ-
thoTiZiDg sale.
PROBATE CoURT-JtiIg DIN.
To- day. the will Of John Martin was fully
proven and admitted 10 IyOtafe. and letters
OF testamentary were issued to Felix Martin,
tie executor, under bonds. An order OF
publication was issued in the matter Of The
viii of Emeliue y. G. Christian. The viii OF
SabTa WoOdw ward was admitted to probate
and record, and letters testamentary were
ordered TO be issued to II. y. Sweeney, exeeu-
ter, bonds being fixed in the SUN OF Sl,1OO
IL re. VII OF LhaS- Dean, deceased. the eX-
eCutOr, VIM. Il. Barron, renowned his trust.
In re, estate OF Ann P4ckrell, deceased, Oh
1eCtiCns filed. OVerTuled and The said ac-
counts as stated be, and the same are APP
proved and confirmed. TIE VIII of Ch8s. u.
Wood was fully IpOven and admitted TO
lament of John q. StTobel was fully proven.
POLICF COURr-,JudGe lb7ls pro ten.
To-day, Mary Ellen Sprlggs was fined =
for swearing VIM. Hopkins, 90. Lewis HUI
Ter. forfeited collateral for climbing on park
ience. r. Angerman, DO; -. Jas. T.. Win
rose, forfeited collateral. Anna FauIk,
charged with beinga warrant and prostitute,
was sent down in d fauit OF bonds. Lizzie
Cook pieaded guilty TO being "a prostitute
and vagrant and was sent down sarah
JohTson, 60. Mary Peugley. : for disturb
ing Georgetown. Jane Lee and Nagy,e IfpS-
comb, do. Walter Parks, s. for curS!ng
John Corte, forfeited collateral.
VICIOUS Dog.
george G Brewer. keeping 2 vicipuS dog,
which bit one James r. johnson a small
white boy. II was shown thai the dog wsts
chained, and the court decided that as the
Toy approached too near the dog, under the
iaW he could not order the dog 10 he killed.
John Shea and Mary Shea, charged with
steallng Sl23 from Mrs. Mary Scala, who
teStlfled that II was Ia ken from her trunk In
her room. A room in her house haf been
rented TO defendants, ana no one else mad ac-
cess To her house. The trunk was locked.
ard defendants knew the money was il it..
during her absence from home 70 attend a
fuEeTal the money was taken out. a GaUgn-
.er of Mrs Scala testified 10 seeing Mrs.
shea coming out OF the room: case q iSniSEei.
Levi Washington. larceny OF n dog. so.
Mitchell Russell, larceny OF a watch from
simon CarmCdy, VINO testified that he
missed II In the Capitol grounds. = was
0iSO testified that an old cCICred man found
~. and Russell claiming 10 he gave II un.
Cfhcer Lewis testified that ne arrested Rus
sell WHO said he found 10, and Statasi that ne
had sold IL. and the officer recovered &C.; ~zN
or thirty days il Jail Jonn S-nallw0O!, as
Saulti IS.
FORGIvING WIFE.
WIN II. walsh. assault on his " Ire, The
vile tried 20 beg him or, end testtnedzbat
she threw a KNIFE at him; - and Costs.
Emma jenkins and Luanna Brown, larceny
of chairs, lOokin" glass. dresses. SC, valued
~ SO. jenkins pleaded guilty, and was
G Il 80; or 90 days in Jail; Brown dismissed.
IOl1F1GDn g
Sbo said that Wesley took uer man out aud
gave him something To drug him. and she
sEoAe 10 nun ABOUT ~, when be assaulted
fer, =. Catherine Bailey and Eliza J. Muir
pny, assault on John Murphy on the
ith instant; Murphy Is partially blind,
and pensioDeT, and ne testified that the
PARTIES assaulted hin-one win a sficS s.1S
wood and the other by pulling Lis hair. The
defendants pleaded that their witnesses were
yealed the fact that subp0enss were issued
and Dad found their way into the pockets OF
Bailey, and were rot served. The court ined
Catherine $50 and Eliza Murphy 20. Elias
Brown, alias .'Keety'' Brown, Larceny of a
money box ard contents from Metropolitan
street car, plead guilty and was sentenced TO
a breast pin, plead guilty; 50 days tin jail.
Daniel Clancy, assault, forfeited collateral.
Frances Poindexter, assault on Mary Law
soI.i q. Wesley Johnson and George john
son, larceny OF Sl6 from Benjamin Bates.
hates testified that be handed the money To
IN ass Jones, and these parties snatched the
mo- ey md ran out; S25, or co days I'm jail.
VIM. 81 merville, assault and battery on
Maria Jones; S5
THY GEoRGETOWN ASSAULT CASE
levi Dorsey. a we'll grown white boy. ar
rested by Ofhcer y. b. Lyles for assa1ltiDg
John Weso en-, colored, with brick severel9
cutting his read, was fined SOS. or three
ing a bawdy no use on street, between ISIS,
ard 49, streets; Sl9O, or three months in IaiI
Henry Ergles, en-. bezzlirgi SIS, or 80 days In
jail.
1Postmasier James ida mince matters
with The pie man, did he
the fylf ElaarNS