Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-13
COURT QUARTER SESSIONS.
Adjourned April Term.

Adjourned April Term.
Wednesday Afternoon.-The Dennis case
was argued by Ii. Nj. North and J. B.
Amwake, esqs., for the defendant, and by
S. II. Reynolds, esq, for the common
wealth. Z. K. Martin. esq., was also As
sociated with the district attorney in the
prosecution, but made no speech in the
case, as but two speeches were allowed on
each side. The case was given to the jury
under the charge of The court at Al 20 clock.
After an absence of an hour, the jury re-
turned verdict of guilty. This is the
first prosecution ever brought in our
courts for the violation of this section of
our criminal code.
Selia G.. and Samuel Johnson and SIN it'll
Graham, boys, aged from II to 12 years,
were before the court on a charge Of mn-
lcious mischief. The allegation is that
these boys, who reside at Columbia, recent =
ly placed distractions on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, near MOuntville. The ob-
vent an accident on the road. The court
would not allow the defendants to be tried,
on account Of their age. 1t was stated
that the boys we're to be placed in tho
soldiers orphan school, at Mount Joy.
They were required to give security
in the sum of $500 for their good be-
haviOr for a period of 10 months. The
security was entered by the fathers of the
boys. Verdicts of not guilty with county
for costs were then entered.
Verdic;s Of not guilty were taken in the
cases against Charles Wilmer, for burglary
and robbery, the district attorney stating
that the commonwealth had not sufficient
evidence to convict. This defendant was
convicted at the April sessions of an as
sault, with intent to commit q rape.
The case of Com'th VS.. Julia Hoover,
charged with murder, was next attached
When arraigned she pleadee! not guilty. In
the selection of a jury the defendants
counsel exhausted his twenty peremptory
challenges, and the commonwealth chal-
lenged two; four of the jurors called had
conscientious scruples in regard to capital
pressed all opinion. The following jurors
will try the case Graybill Wenger, mer-
chant, Upper Leacock Hiram Lockald,
farmer, West Hempfeld; William A. MOI
ton, clerk, 7th ward, city; Emanuel Hoff-
man, saddler, Elizabethtown Samuel w.
Potts, inn-keeper, Lancaster township;
SimonJ. Eaby, clerk, Mount Joy borough
Frank E. Buch, hardware, Warwick C.
ID. Buckwalter, merchant, Upper Leacock
Ephraim s. Hoover, farmer, Mannheim
Samuel Long, fencemaker, West Lampe-
ter Joel l.. Lightner, farmer, East Lam
peter, and Samuel Hambright, farmer,
Mannheim township.
The district attorney opened the case,
stating that they would prove that the
step-sister of defendant had died from
poison administered by some one about a
week previous to the death of the child, on
November 81, the defendant purchased at
a drug store in Ephrata quantity of
white arsenic, saying that it was for the
purpose of poisoning rats and mice on
the morning of the day the child died some
Cruel was prepared for the infant it was
placed on the window sill for a few mo-
ments during the temporary absence OF the
mother ; on her return she fed tho infant
this soup almost Immediately the chilli
was seized with violent illness the de-
fendant was asked to go for a physician;
she at first refused, protesting against
going the doctor came, and the mother,
who had also partaken of the cruel, COM
planned of feeling unwell the doctor
then said that it looked like a case of pois-
oning the child fingered from the morn
ing until 1 o'clock in the afternoon, when
it died; a post mOrtem examination was
made, the stomach being sent to Philadel-
phia for analysis :; and eight or ten tests
being made, showed that there was poison
in the stomach. At the conclusion of the
district attorneys speech. the jury were
placed in charge of Tipstaves Flory and
Erisman and taken to the Cooper house.
Thursday Morning.-The case of the
Con'th VS.. Julia Hoover, charged with
murder, was resumed. The first witness
,alled was Vienna Hoover who testified
hat she lived at Ephrata in November
asst is the second wife of Meyer Hoover,
who is the father of JulA Hoover, the de-
endant is not the mother of Julia
Hoover, the defendant was the mother
# Clara Hoover, the infant who died on
81, 1879, at her home in Eph-
alta Julia Hoover, the defendant,
nd Mrs. Bingaman were present when
he child died; the child was not sick