The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-08-13
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all indicted for riot, and Samn Toomey
and Binos Moss were each indicted sepa-
rately for Assault and Battery, but all
three cases were tried before the same
jury. The parties were all from Dun
cannon and were young gentlemen of
bellicose disposition. 1t seems there is
O number of young gentlemen living in
the same place, between whom and the
defendants there Is an incompatibility of
temperament, and difference of opin-
| ion concerning certain local matters, the
most important of which is the ability
of one party to clean the other out On
q certain evening during the summer
the hostile factions met on the bridge
that spans the little Juniata and con-
fict not as disastrous as that of the
Bridge of Lodi ensued, but IL was sufli-
cient to make 1t a bridge of black eyes
| on that occasion. Everybody compris-
ing the large crowd which had gathered
together seems to have taken hand in
the general rumpus except Burgess
HIGHLANDER who was even assaulted by
one of the young bloods in his efforts to
quell the disturbance The defts. were
subsequently arrested, broke Jail, recap
tured, and held for trial. The jury found
them all guilty and the Court, after Civ
ing. the boys lecture upon their duties
and responsibilities as members of
community, fined them $5 90 piece
and the costs of prosecution, and in the
cases of Assault and Battery, Binos
Moss and Samuel Toomey were each
fined 81 and costs of prosecution.
Com. VS.. Jonathan Culp, was an in
dictment for an attempt to commit rape
The charge was made by Mrs. Caroline
Fox, and supported by the oath of Ben
avel Shade. This lady told o tale en-
bellished with sighs and illustrated with
gesticulations of which the substance
was that one day while engaged in the
laudable occupation of uprooting those
unhappy members of the original curse,
to wit the weeds in her garden, the
said j Jonathan made his appearance on
the porch about noon-day, and being
moved and instigated thereto by the Dew
ii, he persuaded her to come into the
house and listen to some important news
he had to communicate, and guileless
and unsuspecting as the fish that ap-
proaches the dainty bait which conceals
the barbed hook, she entered the house,
was seized by the defendant, and the de-
tails were what this prosecution was
founded upon. AT this juncture, Shade
appeared, and so appalled, was he at the
spectacle, that his hair rose upon end,
and he involuntarily calculated mad dog
| spelled backwards. The story of Jona-
than was that they had set up job on
| him that on the memorable day above
stated he went to the house where Shade
and Caroline lived to get his saw filed,
and Shade not being in at the time he
beguiled the moments until his return,
in entertaining and instructive converse
with Caroline, which was interrupted by
the war-whoops of Shade, who made a
quiet and sudden appearance. There
was other testimony to support the truth
of his statement, and the falsity of the
other. The jury gave credence to his
story and found him Not Guilty, but
believing he had his saw filed they re-
quired him to pay the costs.
There were two Surety of the Peace
cases to be heard. The first was the case
of the Com. VS.. Jacob Tobias. This
came from Fishing Creek Valley, at the
instance of Jacob Kinert. The parties
had little alteration, the result of
which was that Kinert and his boys
stoned the deft. down the road, while
he in turn threatened them with total
annihilation. AS the prosecutor seemed
to have the best of it the Court dismissed
the case and sentenced him to pay the
cost.
The other case was the Com. VS.. Chas.
Raub upon the oath of Adam Witherow.
1t would have been lonesome for term
of Court to have passed without the
presence of either one of these we'll
known belligerents. When District At
torney McAllister called aloud, Adam
where art thou ?" the response from one
who knew was ''Gone home" and Court
dismissed the case at the costs of the
| prosecutor.
Com. VS. Geo. Losh was an indictment
of deft. by the Penn'a. Canal Co. 1t
arose from some complications which
were not satisfactorily adjusted some
time ago. Deft. owns saw mill along
the Canal and claims that the Canal Co.
trespassed upon him while he was only
exercising his own rights. Verdict of
Not Guilty.
The civil list was then resu med and
the first case was taken up was M. & A.
j. Snyder VS.. Samuel Smith. This ac-
ton arose upon a note which deft. al
legged to have sent plffs. by mail and
which was afterwards presented to him
by party representing himself as the
agent of plffs. to whom he paid the
amount and lifted the note. Plff. denied
that the note was ever received by them
or that dollar of money had ever been
paid thereon. Verdict for plffs. for
S138.05.
Geo. w. Smiley VS.. w. II. Dewalt
was an action of convenant upon o
warranty in deed for certain tract of
land executed by deft. Some five years
after the delivery of the deed it was dis
covered that Dewalt held title through
Mrs. Hair, a married woman, who
executed deed to the vendor in which
her husband did not join. After making
the discovery that the deed of mar
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