The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1879-05-07

charge The Grand jury was compo sed
of the very best men of the county, in
fact, ! have never seen one composed of
better, Of as good) during the time
have been pracIicing at this bar. They
brought into court y indictments, ] for
house breaking, II deadly weapons, 4 as
sault and battery, selling liquor to
minors, 3 breach of peace, disturbing
religious worship
The Petit Jury was of the better class
of citizens Ii was the remark of the
mem GERS of the bar that both iuries
were exceptionally good, the best that
have been chosen tor years, if ever there
was better, aud in proof, more business
was dispatched by them, in less time,
than was ever done before.
We had Il busy term. Most of the
prosecutions were continued. Three out
OF the five trials had, resulted in con-
viction.
&. 5 Gibbs, for carrying concealed
weapons, was fined So and 10 DAYS inn
prlsonmen, Motion for new trial, and
continued 'till next term. This Is a hard
case, probably Gibbs technically violated
the law, but there seems to be grave
doubts. lie is of good fame, in bad
health consumption, aud confinement
would endanger his life, hence the post
ponement of his application for new trial.
William, alias Bill Lewis, colored. was
given two years at Frankfort, Tor house
breaking. Was arrested on Friday,
before court, indicted, tried, convicted
and sentenced within a week. Swift
was it2
llessa Tabor also went up for two years,
for horse stealing. lie plead guilty
Evidence was introduced to show he was
of weak mind, but not sufficient To con-
vince the jury he was non c0mpOS mentiS
lie is young but II years OF age.
John Sniier was tried for setting up a
gambling contrivance, Cat our Fair last
FalD called "A wheel of fortune. The eyi-
dence did not convince the jury that the
said Snider "set" the "wheel' up, but
only that he gave it a turn or two, and
they let him oil
Robert Duvall, colored, for stealing
from the person without putting in fear.
was the trial of the court The trial
lasted two days. As it was somewhat o f
a novel case, | will give you, in part, the
circumstances. At our Fair. last Fall,
one f. . Pace, as he stated, was inveighl-
ed into fence-corner near the Fair
grounds, to be shown trick, 10y one
Ned Clark, a "colored individual" by
which he, said Pace, could make money,
and whilst said Clark was teaching him
"he rick,, (Which was nothing more
than "Ihree-card-monte") Duvall came
up and offered to bet Pace he could not
draw the right card. Pace refused to
bet, as he SAID, but was induced to bet
for fun, pulled out 500 bill, aud whilst
he had the bill behind his thumb and
finger, either Clark or Duvall, one or the
other snatched the bill and ran oil with
it. There was some proof tending to
show Duvall won the money, but the
jury believed PAGES tale, and sent Du>
vail up Tor three years, from which he
has taken an appeal to the Court OF APP
peals and will remain in Jail for 60 days,
to give time for the record to be filed in
said court. There was great interest
taken in the trial, and able attorneys em-
ployed to prosecute beside the Common
wealth Attorney, Capt. Walker, (who put
in an appearance on Wednesday, the
firm of caves K caves and w. ii Yost,
Jr, assisted the prosecution. The de-
PENDANT wac represented by W. W.
Lyle, of Russvllville, and your CORES :
pondent The defense have great hopes
OF reversing the Judgment OF conviction
The court did AN immense amount Of
Equity business, worked oil a considera-
BILE number of actions, take it all in all
there has been more work done than at
any court for years Enough of court
business. But few strangers at court,
but three visiting attorneys, Darby, OF
Princeton, Lyles of Russellville and Pc
tree OF Eikton.
James Weir and wife, of Greensboro
are visiting his brother, Ed Weir, ST.,
this week.
We had a wedding in town this even
ing, the high contracting parties were
Mr.. Joseph lladen, son of Geo. w.
Iladen, OF the Paradise district, and Miss
Sue Arnold, daughter of our townsman
Sam'l Arnold. Success to you friend
10.
Weather beautiful, farmers engaged
in planting corn, some done planting
Garden truck is growing. la the fruit
line. plenty OF apples and smaller fruit
hut no peaches. SPLoyE.