Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-03-26
THE COURTS.

Company; motion for new trial. Boss VS..
Boss; Judgment below affirmed. Cole vs.
Kirk ct al; verdict for defendant for 1926 and
costs. Van Camp VS.. Groat; Judgment SET SET
aside on making deposit. A. Saks { Co. VS.. J.
j. Kinds; Judgment of condemnation set aside
and answer of garnishee filed. Booth ct al VS..
Daggs ct al; verdict for defendants for $40
damages. Nailor VS.. Howard plaintiff called
and suit discontinued. '''''0''
count verdict for defendant Edwards act
kimmell; verdict for defendant. Halves ait.
gohns3n on trial McLeester agt Chronicle
Judgment for piainiif, 800. Collins & S Ne,
Leester agt same: do, 1878. Lincoln agt
same; DO, 5000. , Same agt Corkhill; do,
easter agt. Richie: judgment confessed. $50
Kirk agt. Cole; Judgment of condemnation,
$50.
EQUITY CoURT-Judge Macarthur.
Yesterday, the following cases wer. up:
Rover VS.. McCOnvey; direction to trustee to
unite, in a conveyance and denying relief
asked 2k Capitol; North street and South
argued and submitted Ager VS.. Russell;
leave to amend by making Charles E. Russell
defendant de-, Payne VS., Connolly; prayer of
ct al: restraining order returnable March 81,
1875 Hughes VS.. Hughes: report of auditor
continued and distribution ordered. Gaskins
VS.. Gaskins; do; Kendall ct al vs.. NewlanI
appearance OF absent defendant ordered. Ca
thell VS.: Reisenger; time for taking proof lin
tied to IS days. ShileS VS.; Wood dismissal of
D
c: f. Ladde made defendant. De Ney vs.
Mack ct al: final ratification of trustees sale
and reference to auditor Robey ct al VS.. Ro-
sell i lot Square 81 HR aeka vs. t?
bond of appeal to General Term approved
Bryan Bros VS.. SandersOn: on hearing.
CRIMINAL COURT-Judgc Wylie.
Yesterday, after our report closed. Peter
Price, cOlored, charged with burglary in enter
ing the house of Dennis +. Fealy corner 18Th
and s streets, in February last: and taking
frnr Cnft hn trn1r, 1f
not guilty. John w. School. alias John Battle
fort; assault with intent to kill John Small
wood, convicted for assault and sentenced to
thirty days in Jail.
Robert White, assault on Henry Burrows.
tappeaD plead guilty, and was released on
OF wagon spring valued at So from ThOS.
woodward, (appeal) was found not guilty.
timothy Doyle, assault on Francis Kernand,
(appealD was found not guilty, the court re.
marking that the prosecuting witness had got
what he deserved.
TIE CLAYTON HOMER HOMICIDE.
~, The The case of Thomas Claxton;; charged with
killed his fatherin-law, VIM Horner, by strik-
ing with fire poker. was called, Messrs
George b. Gorkhill and T. c. McDevitt for the
the amount of bail. and the Judge said he
would fix it at $500 The prisoner was
a arTrt gned and plead not guilty. and the
S" the s s case for T oares R" viii
be remembered that this homicide grew
f out OF a family quarrel Homer when his
an errand for him. uttered an oath. and ClaX-
ton, the father of the child, thereupon got into
quarrel with Homer, during which, in a pas
sion, he seized an ordinary fire poker and
threw it at deceased, striking him above his
left ear, the prong entering the brain and
causing death almost instantly. The accused
l inn went to the police and gave him
Selfup
LOTTERY CASES, ETC.
In two cases of VIM. Williamson. charged
with selling lottery tickets, the defendant
plead guilty, and sentence was suspended,
under the promise to the government not to
engage in the business.
Thomas Rhodes, larceny: not guilty
POLICE CoURT-Judge Shell.
! Yesterday after our closed, VIM. Jackson.
VIM. johnson, and Charles Williams, for being
too loud We're fined S. each. Richard Nolan,
pleaded guilty to vagrancy, but made a state.
but couldn't get it and had to ask aims. The
court took his personal bonds to give him
chance to do better. Victoria Burke was sent
yagrancy, and went down for the same-sixty
days: Mary Bland was sent down for va
grant, graz Mm PAYS, young man of suspicious
prostitution s.
To-day, Mary Jane seroggins, larceny of six
was fined IS and costs or IS days in Jail John
Mathews profanity, S.. Hallet KilbOurn and
John +. OlmStead, charged with ObStructing
oy Mdgg rT Wh wa sso s
Tor vagrancy. Geo. Thompson. cOlOred va
grant: down. Geo. Moore, cOlOred, throwing
fed to. the offence, and stated that he saw
Moore throw soap SudS on the paved foot way.
Moore told the court that the officer was too
arInk to 0eer 50 denied this
| Holmes, selling rum on Sunday at his restau-
rant; $40. Robert. Callahan, violation Of the
sunday law in selling rum at his bar, forfeited
ferrous, S.. Jos. A. Hart, white young man,
charged with larceny of some money and
clothing from JOS. swartz, plead guilty and
EoSS. arrested him in Baltimore with the
clothing on him. Arthur Middleton, assault
asTsGNy 6anks Ssssa ass W
and battery. 81. Thos. Coates, charged. with
malicious mi trespass in breaking down the fence
THE GEORGETOWN OUTRAGE
The court took occasion, during an interval
IN the proceedings, to call attention. to the re-
port in yesterdays STAR of the hearing of the
colored man Charles Jackson, charged with
assault on Miss Jenny Stake, of Georgetown.
and said that the report was not in accordance
WIN the facts and the S comments We're wrong
| planning witness did not swear that Jackson
was the man who aSSailed her, although every
| opportunity was given her to do so, The court
| instructed her to look at him and carefully
consider whether or not she could recog
| nize him as her assailant, and when she
| was recalled the same opportunity was
given her, and she could only say that
| he looked like the man. The court is equal
| ~ interested with the public and the press
| In cOnvicting and Furnishing in such out
| rageOus cases, but he would never lend himself
! TO the dangerous experiment of furnishing any
man on doubtful testimony. He would gladly
| have sent this man to the penitentiary If he
| could have done so, if he had been proved
guilty of the crime. but not upon testimony of
the nature that was presented in this case. He
| would be ashamed of his profession, of the
public clamor and of the press if they de-
manded so unjust thing. The report GER
| ta1nly was wide of the mark as it was not IN
accordance with the facts
fNOte.-The understanding of the reporter
was that the complainant did in the first part
| OF her testimony pretty clearly establish an
identity of the prisoner, and he may have mis-
| understood her when she was recalled to the
| stand. The tenor of the testimony of the
| mother who saw the man running away after
| the assault rather cOrrObOrated the daughter
| testimony, and there was variance between
the testimony of the witnesses called to prove
an alibi and the officers. AS the officers of the
| Police Court understood the testimony the
same as the court did, the reporter is willing
to concede that he may have been mistaken
| REP.1