Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-11-27
San Francisco News.

San FruncsscO news.
SAN Francisco, Nov. 26th.-Evi-
dence was heard to-day by the Fourth
District Court as to the former charac-
ter of the boy Edward Sheridan, con-
victed of n-slaughter of young
Crowley. Several witnesses were
called. In aggravation of the sentence
they testified that his character was
bad. Other witnesses testified in nit
igation of sentence that what they
knew of his character was good. The
Court deferred the sentence until
Monday next.
The prisoners in custody on charges
of being implicated in assault upon
Mrs. Higney on Jessie street, last
before the Police Court this morning,
the examinations having been contin-
ued from Wednesday. The details OF
this outrage have already been pub
lished. The defense adopted by all
of the prisnors who were not captured
upon the premises by police was to
prove an alibi respectively. The rel
atives of these young men appeared
in force, and from the evidence given
they all retired at an early hour on the
night Of the occurrence in question.
The mother of Michael Coffey, the
last one arrested, testified that she put
him in his little bed about S o'clock
in the evening, and visited him subse-
quently during the night to see that
he rested quietly and that the drapery
of his couch was comfortably tucked in
A brother in law corroborated this
statement. Three more of the accused
were fortified with similar evidence
and the fact remained that they had
not been positively identified by the
prosecuting witness. At the conclu-
sion the Court ordered that the pris-
oners Cannon, Harnett, Reinhart and
Coffey be dismissed. Pat Foy, George
Pierson and Michael Driscoll were
committed for trial Oh charges of fe-
lonious assault, with bail set at $4,000
for each. These three will also be
sentenced tomorrow on convictions
for minor rmisdemeanors in connection
with the same affair.
John Chauncey, who cut q cash in
his throat in the city prison Tuesday,
was up before the Police Court We'd
nesday, and DR.. Silver testified that
i'm his opinion the prisoner was only
shamming in order to escape punish
ment. Judge Louderback believed
with the Doctor that his attempt at
suicide with knife which would not
cut butter was no evidence of his in
sanity, and sent him to prison for six
months.
Articles of Incorporation Of the I'm
derwriters' Fire Patrol of San Fran
cisco We're filed Wednesday morning
in the office of the County Clerk. Its
| object is to discover and preuent fires
and save property from conflagration
in the city of San Francisco. The
directors are A. J. Bryant, Elias ID.
Farnsworth, ID. j. Staples, Thos. c.
| Grant, Chas. A. LatOn, VIM. n. Ohm
stead and Geo. T. Bohen. The corpor-
alton has no capital stock.
The case of j. w. Pearson, President
of the Woodville Mining Company,
who was arrested Tuesday afternoon
on the complaint of A. p. Needles,
came up on Wednesday before Justice
| Joachimsen. Pearson is charged with
misdemeanor for refusing permission
| to stockholders to copy entries in the
| books. 1t is admitted that the stock
| holders had access to the books, and
the arrest was made for the purpose OF
determining whether the stockholders
have right to copy entries from the
| books.