The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-08-14

entered into for his delivery from the
jnll about the time of his escape but that
Justice Farnsworth had seen proper to
alter the amount from $50 TO $500, with
out the knowledge of the recognizor and
consequently the recogni2ance was res
pited.
The Commonwealth Va. Samuel Lantz
was charge of wilfully, maliciously,
with malice aforethought, not having
the fear of God before his eyes but being
moved and instgated thereto by the
Devil, stealing and carrying away n
portion of the American, African, Meth
odist Episcopal, Zion Church, near
Marysville, (Which is in the lower end
Of Fishing Creek Valley.) The oflicia-
ting minister of this church, who Is
c0lored woman, seems to have encouD-
tered as much trouble from the carnal
minded people I'm this neck of woods as
ever came over Dom Piatt's Methodist
Monumental, Memorial Church with
chimes attached. Samuel, however,
seems to have done nothing with Grim
inal intention and was found not guilty.
Then the case of the Common wealth
VS.. Wellington w. Farnsworth come on
TO be heard Wellington is n Justice
of the Peace, or more properly speaking
a piece Of Justice in the Borough of
Marysville (which is in the lower part
of Fishing Creek Valley and was in
dicted for forgery. He was accused of
forging the names of s. II. Morley and
John Rhiver to his official bond. This
Justice although small man, has
wrestled with q larger amount of crimi-
nal business in the past four years, and
presented more bills to the County for
services in this way than any other
Justice from the found Top to the
Susquehanna. The Squire has been
conspicuous object at each successive
term of our Courts bounding around
like Kangaroo with stone bruise and
creating wonder in the minds of specta-
tors as to how the Courts would be man
aged if a dispensation of Providence
should call him hence. The evidence
seemed to justify the conclusion that
the scenes which have known him for
four long years would soon know him
no more as the great legal luminary
that dispelled the darkness which brood
ed over them, when his Honor from the
Bench announced that legal interpre-
taton of the law would interpose the
statute of limitation as q bar to convic-
ton, the offence having been commit
ted for more than two years before the
prosecution was commenced. The Jury
were instructed that they would have to
return a verdict of not guilty, but if
they were of opinion that any thing
was "rotten in Denmark" they could
impose the costs upon him. A very
short time spent in deliberation enabled
them to return verdict of not guilty in
accordance with the charge of the Court,
but that Defendant pay the costs.
The next Jury was sworn to try
whether VIM. a. Kingsborough was
guilty of Fornication and Bastardy, as
was alleged by Susan Hassinger. After
hearing the evidence and the charge of
the Court, the Jury were of opinion that
his offence was not rank, and did not
| smell unto high Heaven, and that he
was not guilty, but should pay the costs,
after the manner of the Irish Jury's
verdict, " Not guilty, but don't it any
more"
The next case was the Com. VS.. Jacob
Kinert (from near Marysyille in the lower end
Of Fishing Creek Valley. Jacob was charg-
| ed with malicious mischief in shooting a hog
of Joseph G.. Dare. This hog had come on
Jacobs land for the purpose of gratifying a
| little mathematical curiosity, and was diligently
engaged in the investigation of matter in a
| square root when Jacob hove in sight. He
drove the hog for short distance to lonely
| dell, from which not even the reverberating
echoes of his gun might escape, and there shot
down in his own tracks the porcine Intruder
| The Judge instructed the Jury that they should
examine the matter with regard to malice on
the part of Defendant; that If he had killed
the hog on his own land while it was commit
| ting its depredations, it was not malicious mis-
chief, but If he had driven it for some distance
for the purpose Of wantonly and cruelty xii
| ling it through malice or i'll will then he was
guilty. They found verdict of Not Guilty,
but Jacob to pay the costs. AS the trial OF
cases from Marysville and the lower end OF
| Fishing Creek Valley had become monoto-
| mn that raori0n 6rODOa1 md
field townships criminalty was next investi-
/ gated. John Mcdonald charged Samuel
Foulk with false pretense, in inducing him 10
become his surety to note upon the repre-
sentation that certain party in Fishing Creek
Valley was deeply indebted to him, and that
upon a certain day he would receive a sufficient
amount of bucksheesh from this Howadje to
pay off the loan he had contracted, all oi
which Mr.. Mcdonald afterwards discovered
was only beautiful dream in which Samuel
had revelled. The offence, however, having
been committed more than two years before
the indictment was made, the statute of linn
iation intervened, and nolle prosequl was
entered by the Court.
The last case on the calendar was a charge
of larceny against Joe and Zack Page, Sam.
uel Baker and Wesley Miller. The Page boys
had traded mule to James Flynn for mare
and colt, and after the mare was taken home
they were soon led to believe that Flynn had
come the Giraffe over them. Believing they
had been cheated, they came under the cover
of night and took out of Flynn's stable this
unmusical representative of a despise5 race
"without pride Of ancestry u hope of posteri-
ty." This mule created great deal of merri.
ment in Court. The Irish wit of Jimmy
Flynn who strove to impress the Court and
Jury with a sense of the deep wrong he
had suffered, enlivening the late hours of Sat
urday night, and when the Court announced
that the crime of larceny had not been proven
against the Defendants, curses not loud bat
deep, wsre muttered by the Prosecutor and his
retninars This was the last casn and the