Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-12-22
COURT NEWS.

| COumcuCtuR Will tuO oiu' 1sAi "-N
Mondays of January next, and week
commencing with the 4th Monday o.
February. The Jury Commissioners
and one of the Judges, will commence
next Monday, to fill the wheel for next
+ year.
TRIAL LIST OF LAST WEEK.
The cases of the Commonwealth VS.
the following persons were disposed Of
last week.
W. H. Curran, false pretense. Set
tied and nolle pros. allowed in pay
ment of COSTS
R. G. Thompson, larceny by bailee.
Not guilty.
William Steinbrook, false pretense.
Not guilty, and prosecutor and defen-
dant to each pay one-half the cost.
John Hockenberry, larceny. Nolle
pros. allowed in payment of costs by
defendant
William Wood, obstructing private
road. Not guilty, and prosecutor,
William Leckie to pay one-half the
cost, and defendant to pay the other
half.
| Same, destroying a bridge across a
private road. Same verdict.
Joseph Saylor, aggravated assault
and battery. Found guilty of assault
and battery.
| Joseph Green, larceny. Not guilty.
| George Cummins. horse stealing.
Guilty, and sentenced to Yeas and l
months in Penitentiary.
James D. Lewis, larceny from the
person. Guilty as indicted, and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for 2 years
and IL months. or until November Is,
1883.
| Crawford Rankin, F & B. Guilty,
sentenced to pay $25 to Poor Board of
Fairview township, and $25 to prose-
cutrix, and 81 per week from Septem-
Der l, 1880, to September l, 1885, for
maintenance of child, and costs of pros
ecution. Security in $500.
Joseph Flick, assault and battery
Settled. and nolle pros. allowed on pay
ment Of cost.
NJ. j. Miller, selling liquor without
license. Pleads guilty, sentence sus-
pended for 8 months.
j. A. MiSser, assault and battery
with intent to kill Defendant enters
plea of nolle contendre, agrees to pay
prosecutor $25 and is sentenced to pay
fine of $40 and costs.
Ellen Deeley, larceny. Guilty, and
sentenced to the work house for five
months.
A. Vogan and J. Honeywell, keep
ing a bawdy house. Found guilty.
and A. Vogan sentenced to Work
House for months, and j. Honey
well to Work House for one year and
ii months.
Same. selling liquor without license.
Not guilty, and county to pay costs.
THIS WEEK.
The Court adjourned over on Sat-
urday until Monday morning of this
week, when the following cases were
tried:
Commonwealth vs. William Schock-
ey, Indictment larceny of shawl
Verdict, not guilty.
Same vs. Joakim Snyder, and same
vs. John Shoaff, cross bills, and both
for aggravated assault and battery,
and both tried together. Verdict. Sny-
der guilty of simple assault and bat
terry, and pay the cost. Shoaff not
guilty.
Ali the jurors except those on the
last above case were discharged on
Tuesday morning. Court rose on
Tuesday evening.
Some of the cases taied were of
more than usual interest, and the ver-
diets meet with very general approval.
| Twenty-Five or thirty men are be-
lieved to have perished in burning
wall paper factory in Buffalo, New
York, last Friday.
A week old baby in this town is
afflicted with both the chickenpox and
and measles, an unusual circumstance
and an unusual combination of diseases.
RING Losr-In the borough Of
Butler on thanksgiving day, large sized gold
ring with cameo stone, representing the bust OF
knight wearing helmet, the same having a
mask, and the stone apparently having two
faces The finder will be literally rewarded
be returning the same to Grieb's Jewelry Store,
Butler Pa. tt
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