Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-03-29
THE COUR rs,


CIRCUIT COURT-Judge Cartier.
Yesterday, Waggaman agt. Duhamel: YER
dlct Tor defendant. Babe agt Morse; juror
for s25 for defendant. Torment agt' BigloW
verdict for plaintiff. Buckley agt Mcknight
submitted and Judgment for plaintiff; $3.50
en a Bea spf D;ref f Of
murrer sustained with leave to plead.
EQUITY COURT-Judge Mac arthur.
yesterday, owen agt. BuSher .Order limiting
m TIM Jetfers agt: LETTERS; time fixed for tax:
order reviving suit. Mcpherson agt. Small,
wood; leave to file supplemental bill. Long
agt. Tyler; trustee substituted. Stevens ct al.
agt, Savage; bill dismissed. Sullivan act.
Black; argument continued.
vos.o CRIM1NAL CoURT-Judge Wy1ie.
battery with Intent to kill not guilty.
Csocond offence) OF teapot, plead guilty,
Tertiary.
COLORED MORMON.
Frank Payne, a neatly dreSSed black man,
ABOUT 70 or Y years of age, was arraigned on
the charge of bigamy, in having on the 18th of
February last married one Jane Scott, when
oine Williams, who was still living He plead
guilty, and said: g But didn't know the law. y
The court gave him the lowest sentence under
me law, TWO years In the Maryland penten-
Charles Johnson alias Robert Storks plead
guilty to petit larceny, second offence and
was sentenced to two years in the penten-
tiary.
MULE CASE.
John I. Scrivener charged with the larceny
OF two mules, was placed on trial, and, after
the prosecuting witness had given testimony,
the jury, under the direction of the court. re-
turned verdict of not guilty.
ANOTHER POUND PARTY CASE.
Henry Thomas. cOlOred, charged with assault
and battery with intent to kill Frank Thomas,
by shooting him in the hand. This affair took
pace at pound party given by the sister of
and was occasiosed bT Ispute ahn lUn a se
ing: In the course of the OSS-examinat0n
by Mr.. Cahill, the witness said he put the pris.
oner out and he knocked the panel of the door
out and shot four times more. He saw the
pistol distinctly, and remembers that the pis-
t0l had seven chambers, because he counted
them when the prisoner was shooting.
two others raised a disturbance, and Frank
ordered them out and went into an adjoining
room and got the saber, when they commenc-
party for singing, and did not invite Henry
Thomas, Walter Thomas, or the man Ernest
-. For the defence, Walter Thomas testified
that FRANK Thomas came in, and some one
clean them all out, and, calling for a sword, he
cut the prisoner. There was no shooting by
the prisoner that night.
The prisoner testified in his own behalf that
while they were singing some one said there
was false tenor, and Ernest Shipley said
I'm, n-ll! He then said to Walter. Lets
60 home" and they started out, when Frank
Thomas cut at them with sword. He did not
Shoot Tor he had nothing to shoot with and
never carried pistol.
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
PROBATE CoURT-Register Webster.
The will OF the late F. A. Boswell was adj
mltted to probate and the executor having
renowned letters of administration with the
VIII annexed were issued by ChaS. II. Parker
Inc VIII OF Louis +. Barber, was fully proven
and letters OF administration with the will
annexed, was issued b., the. widow Cleaner
BarDer-the executor Theodore Barber, re-
bouncing his right: Estate of w. P. Johns IN /;
Estate of David Jacobs: first. account of ex
ecutriX; passed. Estate of Joseph T. Fales ::
inventory return.
POLICE CoURT-Judoe Smell.
To-day, Louisa Murgen, Geo. McCalan and
hicnard Marry, were sent down under the
vagrant act. Charles Shipley was fined: SIS.
Tor being loud and bOisterOuS Park Wash
lngtOn, was fined: s., for being prOfane i'm the
street. VIM: b. Smith, charged with an affray |:
-: Henry Williams, cOlored, charged with
steallng a newspaper from a gentleman's
ooof; 20 or ten days. Richard Murray, assault
SI ponce officer S.. A small boy named
& Yea was arraigned on the charge Of break
lns INTO a school house and stealing some
scnoOl DOCKS. The officer who arrested him
recovered three of the books reform school.
EIusehe Geary, brother of the one who stole
tlle OOokS, was arraigned on the charge of
peing an isle an incorrigable boy His mother
testlned against hum, and said she could not
10 ahything VAIN him, he was wayward and
bad boy; form school,. IVY y - y '''''