Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-23
C0uKT OF QUARTER sEssIONs.
Regular April Term.

concluded argument, the jury was charged
by Judge Livingston, and the jury returned
q verdict Of guilty.
Com'th VS.. VIM Jones, feloniOus assault
and battery. The testimony for the COM
showed that on the Goth of
January last there was difficulty at the
ROhrerstown rolling mill, during which
defendant and Patrick O'Donnell got into
a fight; after wrestling around for some
time Jones got O'Donnell against the
"bosh" "a vessel some three feet in di-
ameter, partly filled with water, in which
the tools are cooletD while in this position
a man named Jacob Warner, friend
of Jones struck O'DOnnell terrible blow
over the head with pair of heavy iron
tongs, and O'Donncll fell senseless and
bleeding into the bosh. He was taken to
the county hospital where he remained in
precarious condition for some weeks.
For the defense the testimony was that
drunken man named Jacob Warner, was
having difficulty with the proprietor and
some of the employees Of the mill
that Jones endeavored to get Warren out
Of the mill; while thus engaged O'Donnell
took hold of Jones, and Jones told him to
take his black hands off of him o. Donnell
called him liar the two simultaneously
picked up bricks, but did not strike or
throw them; O'Donnell then bantered
Jones to fight, and pulled off his coat
ODonnell then struck Jones, and the men
clinched and in their struggle got over the
bosh, and O'Donnell was struck by War
ner, rs stated. The evidence as to who
struck the first blow was very conflicting.
The case was submitted without arsu-
ment, under the charge of the court. The
jury returned verdict of not guilty.
"A verdict of not guilty was taken, by
consent, in the case Of L. ID. Morgan, in
dicted for carrying concealed deadly
weapons.
COm'th VS.. William Mohn, keeping n
disorderly bawdy house. Attached.
The grand jury returned the following
bills
True BiUs-Louisa Conner and Marga-
ret Conner, libel; Ludwig Sevald, larceny
as bailee (three indictments) G. A.
Greene and John Campbell, practising
medicine without diploma; Simon Rob-
erts, felonious assault and battery (Jwo
indictments) Simon Jacobs, false pre-
tense.
lynored-Harriet j. Sweeney and John
Campbell, practising medicine without
license ; Benjamin Jackson, assault and
battery, prosecutor, Henry Messersmith, to
pay costs; Isaac Bowman, assault and
battery, the prosecutor Isaac Haupt to
pay costs.
Friday Erening.-The jury in the tho
case of the com'th VS.. VIM. Jones returned
verdict of not guilty, the prosecutor,
L. B. Morgan, directed to pay two-thirds
of the costs and defendant one-third.
Com'th VS.. VIM. Mohn, indicted for
keeping a bawdy house in the basement at
the corner of North Queen and Orange
streets. 1t was in evidence that defendant
kept an oyster saloon and eating
house; divided into three apart
ments-the front room having bar
and some chairs and tables, one ofthe back
rooms being the kitchen and the other Il
card room, or eating room. The card
room has table, a few chairs and bench
along one side of the room. 1t was shown
that Mary Sherlock was hired there rs all
assistant. Andrew Wendler, aged II years,
and Henry Doerr, aged 1S years, testified
that they had illicit intercourse in the back
room with Mary Sherlock David Kautz,
Lewis Strauss, Sweigert and VIM Winower
declined to answer the question and some
of the commonwealth witnesses who fire.
quent the place, testified that they never
did themselves nor never saw others COM
init any immoral act therein there was
no bed in the place, nor any other accom-
modations except those common in res
It was in evidence that several
young women of questionable character
visited the place, and that market women
and other respectable country women
visited the place for oysters and other re-
freshmcnts. There was no evidence that
defendant had ever been paid by the fire.
Iuenters Of the place any money except for
the refreshments eaten by them, though
some of the witnesses swOre that Mohn
was in the front room when they were in
The back room with the girls. Mary Sher-
Ock testified that she never had any i'm
proper intercourse with any of the wit
lesses.
For the defense number of the imme-
late neishbOrs, very respectable people,
we're called, who testified to the orderly
manner in which the place was kept, and
hat they were not aware that anything i'm
proper was done there. The defendant,
'eing called, testified that he had kept the
)lace eiOhteen months and that Mary Sler.
ock was his hired domestic. She did tho
Washing, scrubbins, assisted in cooking
md during defendants absence attended
he saloon he had no knowledge Of any
IMMORAL conduct on her part with any of
he patrons of his saloon. Verdict guilty.
VIM. J. Pennybecker pleaded guilty to
complaint of fOrnicatiOn and bastardy
referred against him by Susan Reiden-
ach, of Earl township, and received the
sual sentence.
jeremiah Pritz was brought into court
N an attachment and pleaded guilty to
barge of fornicatiOn, preferred year or
wO ago. Having married the complainant
he case never came to trial the court
ow orders him to pay the costs.
Ludwig Sevald pleaded guilty to five in
of larceny as bailee and was
entenced to one years imprisonment.
The grand returned the following
True BMs-Peter Hess, Levi Eckert,
rt, larceny Michael Lentz, alias Shenk,
lement and forgery; Lancaster city,
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