Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-03-14
THE COURTS.


- Yesterday, Robinson VS.. Washington and
Georgetown Railroad Company, garnishee
f REotn BY plaintiff Brown use q
party. Stewart VS.: johnson Judgment by de
fault. Riley VS.. Wilson: on trial.
EQUITY COURT-Judge Macarthur.
Yesterday Stud!ey agt. StIdley: order fol
appearance. kabincam agt. Rabincam ct al
safe confirmed Professionally. Waliach 'agt
Richards; do. and reference. Riggs agt Bay.
lsS ct al: Injunction continued:
appearance. Dudley agt: Dudley: referred tc
examiner. Drury agt. Drury; order of Feb
ruary 2 annulled, and decree of January 81
relnstated. Lewis, trustee, agt. Morris ct al.
ing postponed.
CRIMINAL CoURT-Judge WWte.
yesterday the District attorney entered a
nolle pros. in each of the following eases: John
GurIa assault with intent to kill; Henry
Johnson, same assault: John HumeS alias
ThOS. Curran, assault with intent to kill OH
Ger Myers and same burglary. Catharine Bay
solder named Geo. Jones, in August last was
found guilty., Notice of a motion for new
trial given. VIM. Hickey assaulting police
officer: OH trial.
VIM: Hickey charged with resisting Officer
VIM. G. ke!lum, was found not guilty.
MURDER CASE
tlncenZO Bernadlna, an Italian, charged
with the murder of Frederick Cole, on the 18th
OF December last, by striking him with stick,
was placed on trial-Messrs. Norris and Hine
Tor defence.
The following were selected rs the jury:
Charles James, Robert V. Langley, NJ j.
Loughlin, VIM. 81. Daw, Jos. Nyman, Samuel
James b. Male, John Silence, Peter Mcintyre.
and George ID. Livingston.
The first witness was John Garner, who tes-
tlhed that ne was vita Cole, and they Went
togetner 10 the prisoners, and Cole called for
drinks and he invited witness to drink The
man behind the bar pulled out stick and
struck Cole without saying word, and they
The case was in progress when our report
closed.
POLICE CoURT-Judoe Smell.
Today Elizabeth Smith was fined: S. for
being loud. Annie Smith was sent down for
yagrancy. Bridget Welsh was sent down
thirty days. for maliciously destroying private
property. Charley Hurdle was fined: $lO5.
ior selling liquor without license; appeal
terry ON Josephine Van Buren,. a child eighteen
months old. This was cruel whipping given
10 steps child, the little sufferer being bruised
not proper case Tor interference, and dis
missed it. Phillip Marshall threats to John
Aloysius, with case knife ground out to a
point, making formidable weapon: sixty
ed on the charge of carrying con
Gats ai aHd dangerous weap9n; sixty
several articles of clothing from the residence
Of Mr.. A. H. Gawler, on 18th street; $40, or 30
days. John Holiness coIored, assault and bat
lery on Mary Jane Holmes, his wife, who had
sundry bruises on her face and head TO show
lot 1t. She testified that John had beaten her
with heavy club. John, who was in the dock,
tried to shed a few crocodile tears of penitence
10 influence the Judgment of the court but it
was SO thin that the court took occasion to say
that he had almost become q convict to the
practice in vogue in Maryland and in England
that OF whipping for the punishment of certain
brutal crimes and miSdemeanOrS, among them
that OF wife beating. He imposed a fine of $50
or ~ days in jail Eliza A. Mcdonald assault
and battery on Harriet A. Griffin with an axe ):
y and costs. Jim Richards, a white thief,
charged with burglary in the house of Lizzie
Snow last night. Officer Auldridge testified
that ABOUT O'Clock this morning he heard
Lizzie Snow, corner of 18th and streets, call
ing "POllce:'' ran up and was told a man was
IN the yard; jumped in and collared him, and
found ladies' hat and a quantity of towels in
his possession. The same fellow had been al
through .Ducky' Whites house opposite.
charlotte Brown, a servant in Ducky'S house.
teStlhed to seeing him there; grand jury
$l,eO0 bonds. Alfred SnOwden, larceny of two
reY0lvers and a carpet sack, pleaded guilty,
anu sent to jail for sixty days. Annie Miller,
threats to Bridget Morrison; personal bonds
TO keep the peace.