Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-22
COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS.
Beginning Of the April Term

Lewis Shine, indicted for jaii.breakinc.
was resumed. 1t was in evidence that he
had been convicted for participation in a
burglary at Reinhold's station in 1876,
plead guilty and was sentenced to p years
imprisonment in the county prison, and
that during December, 1877, he escaped
from Jail by scaling the wall, he having
| been employed at work in the Jail yard.
No defense was offered and the jury re-
turned verdict Of guilty. The court SEN
fenced the prisoner to pay fine of 80 and
undergo an imprisonment Of one year.
Com'th VS.. Samuel Sickels attempted
rape. The defendant is only 13 years OF
age and the little girl, daughter of John
Rhodes, Of Rapho, onlys years old. The
little girl testified that she and her two
little cousins aged respectively 8 and 10
years were playing together, when defen
dant came up threw her down and as
saulted her. Her little companions ran off
and gave information to John CARRIER, who
ran to her assistance, whereupon defendant
ran off, and the little girl went home and
,old her parents what had happened. The
defendant did not deny that he had thrown
her down and held her down, but said he
did so because she had called him names.
Counsel for defense cited the law to show
that defendant, being under IA years of age,
could not be convicted Of the offense
charged, and the court so charged the jury
The jury found defendent guilty of assault
and the court sentenced him to IN i'm
prisoment of thirty days.
Com'th VS.. Henry Rappe, indicted for in
cest and adultery. His daughter, Lizzie
Rappe, rather simple minded girl of Is
years, who is subject to falling fits, testi-
fled that during the absence Of her mother
at church heriather came to her room and
perpetrated the outrage. The girls
brother testified that he saw his father
with his clothes off in the girls room.
The jury found him guilty and the court
sentenced him to two years imprisonment
for the incest and five months for adul-
terry.
Com'th VS.. Amos Albright, larceny.
three indictments. The commonwealth 5
testimony was to the effect that defendant
and Frank Blair had stolen about 100
pounds of iron belonging to the Pennsyl-
vania railroad company and sold it to Fritz
GOtwald, 4 dealer in old iron, who in turn
sold it to the Penn iron company where it
was identified rs belonging to the railroad
company. The defendants claimed that
they found the iron in q pile below the
rolling mill, so or 1CO yards away from
the railroad. The jury returned verdict
of guilty, and the court sentenced the de-
fendant to four months imprisonment ON
each indictment-One year in all.
Frank Blair pleaded guilty to two in
dictments of larceny in the above transac-
ton, and the court sentenced him to four
months imprisonment.
William II. Butler colored, pleaded gull
ty for larceny and false pretense. 1t ap-
pears there is another colored nan named
Butler, and defendant introduced himself
to him and claimed to he his uncle The
alleged nephew was very glad to see his
uncle, took him to his home, made him
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lars in money and 4 watch, and then the
bogus uncle disappeared. He was cap
tured, however. pleaded guilty as above
stated, and for the larceny was sentenced
to s. fine and three months Imprisonment,
for false pretensc to 81 fine aud two I,onths
| imprisonment.
The tavern license OF John Fox propri-
etor of hotel on the New Holland pike,
near tho Asricutu raj park, was trans
ferred to L. o. Eaby.
| Thursday Morning.-COm' tn VS.. Thos J.
Arment, larceny. The indictment charges
defendant with the theft of iron,
the property of the Pennsylvania railroad
company. Fritz Grotwald and Joseph
Bostick testified that they had bought rail
road iron from defendant, and A. G. Hall,
an employee of the Penn rolling mill,
identified the iron as belonging to tho
Pennsylvania railroad company. For the
defense, defendant was sworn and testi-
fled that he was a dealer in old rags. iron
and bones. The iron that he sold to Mr..
BOstick he had bought from Amos AL
bright. He borrowed Mr. Bostick's team
and hauled the iron from along the pike
near Col. Pciper's farm. Albright told
him that he had bought the iron, and that
! his wagon had broken down. He paid
| Albright s. for the iron in pres
ence of Alonzo NJ. Westwood. WestwOod
| corrOborated this part of defendants testi-
| mony. The jury returned 4 verdict of not
guilty.
Commonwealth VS.. Chas. ii. Wilmer,
| assault and battery, with intent to commit
rape on Mrs. Mary Taylor. Mrs. Mary
Taylor testified that on the 18th of Feb
ruary last, she was member of the family
of Rev. w. G.. Cairnes, of the OctOrarO.
Presbyterian church, Bart township. 1t
had been determined by some of Mr..
Cairnes's friends to treat him to a surprise
and donation party on the night of the
18th Of February. The party was to as
semble at the church and 60 thence to the
parsonage. A few friends, including Josiah
Byers, John NJ. Good and some others had
arrived at the house to assist in making
preparations for the party. Between seven
and eight o'clock Mrs. Taylor went to All
clubhouse a few yards from the residence
AS she was leaving the clubhouse man
stood before her &; he threw the loop Of a.
rope around her neck, chOked her and
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