The Morning herald., 1878-12-10
loTR COUNTY COURT.

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TzB HARRIS HOMiolEB CAsB-IT Is ADAN-
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Special Correspondence. Y lJoaF 1ieae7
=, .gMi53 3'a.Nsw CxsrLn, ,Dec. aiefI
The Court Of Oyer and Terminer opened
this nerningj at 10 o'clock, Chief Justice
Comsgys, snd~ Jadgesy Hsotten. HouatoR
and Wales, on the bench. ,~ags or xogg3I 4
The Harris Homicide case wss then taken
.uplfor trial Harris was indicted for tho
murder Of Isaac Hopkins of Appoqsini-
mink Hundred ON the 10Th eof Dscembsrs
1877.
Alfred P. Robinsops Deputy Attorney
General, for state; BENJAMIN q. Hisld4s fsr
defendant. l,or4 sst|sly5s ANN s5ay ts,s
After calling twenty three jurynsn, which
occupied, abeut three quarters Of An, hour,
tho following jury Was inpaaelled:. :..s,n, \,
i. DayM b Morrison, Elwood 80 ,. AcKss'
Lorenzo d. CHM, Thomas a. Murphy,
Joseph Henry Hanson, Andrew Wall, VII
liam, Harrison, William jerome Eliason'
James Powell, Richard, D., Martin Jsase
Jones. ,gsf5 qsgsjeJ bra 45fiit oat
! Mr. Robinson, opening the case, said the
state WAS At . disadvantage without sone
material Witnesses who wsre absent on ac-
count of death in thsir families. We hays
nj eye witness to the murder, but his own
wife who 10 BY law prohibited from testify
|The witnesses for the State wsrsi then
IIsaac Cork, celsrsd, a sworn: Live In
| Approximately Hundred, knew Harris 5
of7 Years BY sight, knew Hopkins; ! was
at Hopkins funeral; saw wound on hfs
breast; IL didn,t see Harris after the shoots
lihg affair: saw him few days before. Hars
| ris lived in Appoquinimink Hid.
| James Gattis, colored, sworn:-Live In
I Blaskbird Hundred, knew Hopkins and HaF-
ris; saw, Hopkins in Stephen Gattis' house
| across the road from Harris house; saw
wound on his side; Hopkins lived with Hsr.
nis.I - lonGA3 '.dV VI asli 10 iis,5 ,ilj
| Mary Price, colored, sworn Knew Hop.
kins and Harris; Hopkins said he WAS shot
| very bad and II would be the. death Of him.
| Didn' say who shot him; Hopkins died
Sunday evening; didn't see harris after tho
DR.. John d. Psrvis sworn.-I was called
| to see Hopkins on Sunday December 18th,
| ISIS, / found him wounded and shivering:
he was not dying at that time. The next
time saw him dead. c,tf,Fr ~ .sa
! The state had tried TO produce as evi-
dsnce the dying declarations Of Hopkins to
l Dr.. Paryis. 3AfGi 10 iOEa. aE1 lssi5. J
Mr.. fNields objected, unless the. de-
creased knew he was in danger of death;
th h's part Of tho evidence was not allowed
4 to be taken. @Ao e4'j FH'|'@t@A z"
The State here abandoned their case for
want of proof After directions, from the
Court, the Jury rendered verdict Of s'not
guilty" 1T twenty minutes past II O'clock.
The testimony of the wife 6f Harris, be-
fore the Coroner's inquest which could not
be used In the trial was as follows; nil I'll,
II "My husband, William Harris, and me
Ilwere 1t st 4 festival on Saturday night.
ION the way home about 10 o,clockjwe were
together all the way home. Hopkins was
sslsep; he boarded with Us, n NY husband
from going to church on Sunday and we
then had o fight about his taking nv
! clothes; he took brick from the FIRE plsce
and threw It at me, and then shot at ma
with 4 pistol. The noise wakenedi@ Hep.
kins, ana he said to my husband ssyou VIII
kill your wifi, my husband says to- him,
"you ------, do you take IT., mp. for ,ber,'
and told him to 60 out Of the house. Hop
; kins said he would as soon as he put hia
boots on; my husband snapped his pistol
at him twice, but it did not 70 OF. Hep
kins commenced putting his boots on and
geing towards the door, he was going back
ward, when my husband took up his gun
and shot him In the breast; never knew
him and hopkins to have . quarrel about
me; never quarrelled with my husband
! about Hopkins, did not come homo 6rst
from the festival my husband come home
M. Nields, counsel sauasil for Harris, said hs
could have proved undue intimacy existing
between Hopkins and HarrisR wife, which
, would have gone some ways ins his behalf
The Dobson case was called. George Gray
Esq., asked for the postponernent Of II
until to morrow morning. Il was though,
that IT. would have come totrial this morning
bat, three important witnesses failed d
I put In their appearance. and tho case, wai
laid over until to-Horrew morning st 10
2 o'clock when ifthe witnesses are not present
! gfoundsIfors continuance viii be laid. N
Court adjourned at one O'Clock, On the n
assembling Of Court ct O'clock. Harley
\ g. Brown Tie train wrecker, and Geo. ORA
! per, colored, who killed John Wilson q
Middletown were brought Into court and
sentenced. .,,.,.,t,t,se,,, t,.-.,.,, .s,, 4
Z George Draper who was found guilty oi
: murder in the second degrer was sentenced
| tto pay the costs Of prosecution to pay to th'
State Of Delaware, q fine OF 81 900; ON Sat
urday the 2lst of, December to stand on,
hour IN the pillory TO be whipped With 81 Z
: " lsshes, and to be Imprisoned for life'
Harley g. Brown, found guilty ct man