Daily Republican., 1880-05-11
THE CoUR rs. ~

Jim B0ul0em's Gar wheels To-
heavy for hisn-C Catharine sfnei
Indignant-The Beys who stole 1
watch and chstn-Atiam X eisei'l
short stay with Jacob Stuck.
Specially reportsd for the REPUBLICAN.
1 New Castle May 10.
Court commenced at 3 O'Clock, p. In
I The following cases were called fol
trial:
State vs.. Catharine Murray charged
with larceny. When the defendant
took her seat within the bar she in
sisted that her name was not Catharint
Murray but Catharins Sinex. On ac
count Of this interruption her case wai
passed for the time and the case Of tn,
State vs.. James Boulden was called
John Biggs, Esq. representing the State
The defendant was charged with thu
larceny Of eight car wheels and si1
iron CRATE bars the property Of Geerg,
| W. Bush & Son. A jury being called
the trial proceeded.
Walter d. Bush Of the firm OF Georg,
lW. Bush & Son testified the property
described was stolen on the 25th, O
March.
Z. L. Smith testified to purchasing
the property from Lewis Boulden
Boulden told him he got the property
from G.. W. Bush Il Son; that he wst
allowed to take it as 1t was not Of much
value. Mr.. Smith said he sold the pre-
perty to the Lobdell Car Wheel Com
pany.
Lewis Wilson and Lewis Brown tes
tilted to seeing Boulden wheel the
wheels and bars away in the wheel bar
row. ...,..
Boulden in his defence addressed the
ljury and said that on the day in ques.
tion he was working for Charles War.
ner 4 Co., and that while he was going
TO dinner he met q man named Joseph
Thompson with the wheel barrow and
the wheels and at his request he
wheeled them to Mr.. Smiths and sold
them for about so cents, and that aftei
he had sold them he came back and
paid Thompson the money he received
for the wheels. The case was then
given to the jury. In about Is min
utes the jury returned with a verdict
of guilty.
The Chief Justice then sentenced the
prisoner to pay the costs Of prosecution,
$40 90 restitution money to George W.
Bush & Son, to be imprisoned 6 months,
on Saturday next between the hours Of
10 and II o'clock, to be whipped with
20 lashss, and upon his discharge from
prison to wear a oonvict's jacket for six
months as badge Of his crime.
At rs minutes after A o'clock the
Grand Jury returned with q number ol
true bills and an amended bill against
Catharine Murray alias Sinex.
The indictment against Dolly Boylef
for larceny was ignorsd aud the pris'
oner was discharged.
In the case Of the State We. James o..
Donnsll charged with the larceny Of Q
pair Of shoes . 'noll PROSE- was entered
by the States Attorney, and he was dis
charged.
State vs.. Catharine 6inex indicted
for the larceny of dress and shawl the
property of Sarah White, plead NOT
guilty, and not being ready for trial
! she was removed until her mother,
Gomorrah Sinex, could b. summoned
to appear.
Lewis Tobias charged with assault
with intent to kill Emery Deacon, plead
not guilty and asked for Counsel. II.
R. Pennington Esq, was assigned to
John Adam Keiserl charged with lar
csny Of one valise and one cloak on the
2Sth Of April, the property Of Jacob
Stuck, plead not guilty and declared
himself ready for trial.
William Rothwell, Harrison Rothwell
alias "s,ugar" Rothwell, Oscar Gibbs
and Frank Smith, were indicted for the
larceny Of watch and chain the prop.
erty Of Frank Thomas. William Roth.
well plead not guilty Of stealing the
watch but guilty Of selling it. Harrison
Rothwell plead guilty and Oscar Gibbs
and Frank Smith plead not guilty.
The defendants are mere lads from 8 to
II years of age. Frank smith broke
down co mpletely and shed a copious
shower of tears as he plead not guilty. |
"Sugar" Rothwell was also much affect
ed as he plead guilty.
The case Of the State vs.. John Ada N
Keisler indicted for the larceny of
valise and lady's cloak the property of
Jacob Stuck being called, a jury was
Jacob Stuck testified that Keisler
,ame to him on the afternoon preced-
ng the robbery and went to work.
When he came down the next morn
ng about four o'clock to 90 out on his
cute to serve bread, he found that
leisler was missing, and the next
,lace he saw him was in the City Hall, y
Isked him what he did with the satoh-
i; he told him where he could find it, a
md going there he found it with the
loak lying on top Of 1t.
August Overland one Of Mr.. Stuck's
'akers testified that he saw Keisel go v
# in the morning about two O'Clock t
nth the satchel and he knew it was +
Ir. Stuck's. Being barefooted he t
Overlsnd) came back and put on a o
air of slippers and followed him to 0
n alley where he left the valise, and I
citing a policeman he had him arres- c
ID. a
Keisler on being told that he could adj
ress the jury on his own behI looked
and wildly around on the au- VI
ienoe and up to the ceiling as if in "
sarch Of the jury, but on being told -
no were the jury, he said in broken ~ ~
nglish, 81 dosent know any dem ",
has nosen to say to dem. n =,
has blenty frens in Phildelfy, blenty =