The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-01-13

the proposition that he was the better
man OF the two, Sanderson oombed the
head Of the prosecutor with bar room
stool. This tonsorlal operation severed
an artery above the temple and left
gnsh on the head OF Lewis, " not 30 deep
ns well nor so wide as church door,
but sufficient for the purpose Of ending
the fight. Some interesting facts were
developed In this case among which
were the following, viz; 1st, when o
man desires TO have drink OF our
national beverage In that place he sim
ply requests the landlord to make
oD,onstrdtton End, when the landlord
denlo,i8trdtcs, the result to almost
moral certainty, ls fight; and Sd, when
% fight occurs somebody gets hurt, and
good fellows when they let whisky
alone) are sure to get into trouble. The
Jury returned verdict of guilty of
Assault and Battery and not of an aggra-
waited assault, and the battle of German
town cost the deft. fine of $500, the
costs of prosecution and the issuing of
rule to show cause why his license
should not be revoked Dist. Atty
Wallis and Sponsler for Com. Barnett
for deft.
Com VS.. VIM. b. Cook Indictment
Perjury, prosecutor George Losh. Some
time since Mr.. Losh brought suit against
the defendant to recover the price Of five
bushels of wheat. On the trial, deft.
swore that when his fathers barn was
burned down on the farm of which he
was the tenant, some months previous,
that the prosecutor had promised to give
him q load Of. hay and the wheat In
question, without asking any pay there's
for. The prosecutor admitted making
gift of the hay, but not of the wheat,
and that the defendants oath In regard
to the grain was false. Verdict of not
guilty and prosecutor to pay costs. Dist.
Atty Wallis and Sponsler for Com.
Sponsler for deft.
Com. VS.. VIM Shields The deft. was
indicted In various ways arising out of
the same charge but was tried upon an
indictment charging him with, 1st,
rape; I'd, attempt to commit rape Sd,
adultery. The deft. Is a married man,
living In Toboyne twp. The prosecutrix,
Lydia Hoover is young girl aged about
airy last, she was employed as domestic
in the family of the defendant, and
while in the early hours of the morning
of q certain day she was feeding the
calves at the barn the citadel of her
virtue was attacked, the walls of her
chastity were broken down and nought
left by the triumphant intruder, but the
shattered remains of ruined reputation.
There was much evidence of a contradic-
tory nature elicited during the trial, and
after celebrating for some time the jury
returned verdict of not guilty. Dist.
Atty Wallis and Barnett for Com
Sponsler and M'Allister for deft.
This case ended the criminal list, and
the civil list was again resumed. The
next case called was i. f. Alexander,
for use of w. III. Minich VS.. j. w.
Thompson, w. e. Clemson, w. II. s.
Cook and G. M. Clemson. In the latter
part of September, 1877, b. II. Alexander
of Newport, was the owner of market
car that ran between that place and
Philadelphia. Being desirous of selling
out he finally concluded bargain with
j. w. Thompson and w. II. Clemson,
who gave him for the price thereof a
note dated Sep. "a, 1877, due in one year,
for the sum of $500, with interest, signed
by Thompson and w. T.. Clemson as
principals and w. r.. s. Cook and q. M.
Clemson as bail. The figure In the
date was plainly made over figure 8,
and an examination of Jno. Bears AL
manac, which Is always an undisputed
authority in Perry County Court,
showed the Odd day of Sep. 1877 to be
Sunday. This note was afterwards
assigned to w. III. Minich, who entered
it on record on the County Docket.
Two of the deft's. the Messrs. Clemson
made application and had the judgment
opened on the grounds that there was
an alteration of the date and an insertion
of the words I" with interest,"" after the
note had been signed, and this consti-
tuted the grounds of defense, no allega-
tion having been made of a want of
consideration for the note. Thompson,
one of the defendants swore that he had
changed the date, after discovering the
mistake and before any one of the
parties had signed and Cook, co-deft.
believed the change was made before he
had signed. The Messrs. Clemson swore
the change was made after the note had
been signed and delivered, but the Jury
chose to believe that they were mistaken
and gave for the plff. verdict of $780,
10, of which $15. were coll. fees. Min
tire, Junkin and Liggett for plf.-Spon-
sler for deft.
G. Thudium VS.. Abraham Shearer,
was an action upon scire facias to re-
ceive Judgment. Certain transactions
had been carried on for some years be-
tween the parties, and two judgments
had been entered by plaintiff against
defendant, one in 1869 and the other in
1874. One of these was collected by pro-
cess of law, and when q revival of the
lien of the other was sought, the defend
ant alleged that it had been paid, but ow-
ing to the mental imbecility of the plain
tiff for some time past, the different pay
ments made had never been entered on
record. Prof of payment being made on
the trial the verdict was for defendant.
Sponsler for pl'f, McIntire and Smiley
for deft.
Jno. Boyles, Administrator, &C., of
Catharine Boyles, decd VS.. George Burd.
This was an action brought by the sur
vivinG husband of Catharine Boyles to
,aoo.,oy tha onna nf G0Rn which II uaa