Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-22
COURT OF 1UARTEK SESSIONS.
january Regular Term.


the evening of the 18th OF April last the
defendant went to the hotel of David Bair.
which is on the New Holland turnpike,
about two miles west of that town dur
ing the evening quarrel arose between
two men, and the defendant took off his
coat. Bair ordered him to leave the house
rs he did not allow any fighting in the
house defendant refused to go at first,
but finally Bair succeeded in getting him
outside. Clark then broke the door by
kicking it. and threw a number of stones
through the windows breaking them to
pieces one Of the stones hit Bair on the
leg.
For the defense the defendant was call
ed and testified that he went to dance at
BARS hotel; the party was pretty well
livened up with whisky George Sprecher
assaulted Peter Huber and defendant sepa-
rated them; got Huber away, and then
went to Sprecher,~ who was intoxicated,
and tried to get him away; while thus en-
gagged Bair, the prosecutor, came into the
room with the butt of wagon whip,
struck the defendant with it and put him
out of the house defendant then went in
| search of his team, and drove home /; he
did not throw stones, break windows, or
make any threats against Bair. A sister
of defendant cOrroborated his testimony,as
did several other witnesses, who were
present at the time of the disturbance.
The jury rendered a verdict of not guilty OF
assault and battery but to pay costs and
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to two months imprisonment,
Samuel Overly and John Gallagher plead
guilty to charges of larceny and were each
sentenced to so days imprisonment.
The grand jury returned the following
bills
True Bills : Margaret Henry, adultery;
benjamin Bill, feloniOus assault and bat
terry John Drachbar. ct. al. riot John Il.
Dennis and J. Harvey Raymond, dissuad-
ing witnesses and conspiracy Samuel
Overly and John Ga llagher, larceny and
malicious mischief; w. ii. Duchman and
Henry Wilmer, fOrnicatiOn and bastardy;
Fredk Hildebrand, adultery and cnticing
minor; Charles Charlston, embezzle-
ment Frank Kretzeberg. entering
dwelling to commit u felony; George
Evans, burglary.
Ignored John Sensenig. larceny: Sa-
linda Henry. Margaret Henry and John :.
Henry entering dwelling house to COM
nit felony.
7hursduy .Norning.-The first case taken
up was that of cOm'th VS.. Franklin Smith,
assault and battery. The defendant is a
school teacher in Conoy township and it
was charged that on the 18th of October
last he severely whipped and abused a
pupil named Abraham l.. Hoffman. Ac
cording to the story ofthe boy it appears
that on the 18th of October he had quar-
rel with a companion at the school. At
noon the next day he was sitting on the
fence. when the teacher came up and
pulled him down, telling him to go t" the
school house he asked him why he should
90 there, the teacher did not give any rea-
, son. but caught hold of witness and at
tempted to drag him to the school house.
, He finally succeeded in getting loose and
ran away from him the teacher followed
and, catching hold of him. tore his clothes
} and started with him for the school ; he
stepped on his hands several times and
, Otherwise injured him. During the scuiile
, man came along by the school: the
teacher told him to get whip: he refused.
but said he would go for director OF the
township; the director came and first told
, the teacher to let him go afterwards he
told witness that he must take a whipping
or leave school ; when school took in that
day the witness went in as usual, but did
? not recite at recess the teacher told him
, to remain in he then gave him a severe
whipping with two sticks, leaving twenty
, from the effects for thrty-siN days.
On cross examination the boy admitted
that one time he said, in fun, that he and
his brother intended whipping the teacher !;
after this affair he was expelled from the
school by the directors the day after the
whipping he went to Squire Erb who re-
fu ,cd to take his complaint; he resisted
the teacher on this occasion because he
; did not tell what he wanted with him he
was out riding two days after the alleged
assault.
A sister and brother of the boy cOrrObor-
ated him and his father testified in regard
to the marks on his body. On trial.
The grand jury returned the following
:, bills
True BIs-Barbara Laucks, keeping :,
disOrderly house Lewis CObach, Henry
Keller, Henry Myers and David Low. ell
; tering an OuthOuse to commit Il felony :,
Horace b. Johns, false pretense Julia
Hoover, murder; Free Roland, fornica-
tion and bastardy.