Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-30
COURT PROCEEDINGS.
Gnartcr Sessions and Common rlea

Onartcr Sessions and Common Pleas.
Court met on Saturday afternoon ut half
past 2 o'clock.
Frank Bender, :. boy who was charged
with stealing 4 small sum Of money, was
released from custody, rs he has already
been in prison for forty-scven days and
this was his first oflcnsc. Ills mother cn-
tered bail for his good behavior.
Abraham S. Good, Of Rapho township,
was charged by his mother-in-L,w. Cathc-
rinc White. with having threatened to ito
her bodily harm. Abraham denied l.av-
ing made the threats and testified that the
pvosccutrix cndcavcd to cnticc his wife
away from his home. The court ordered
each party to pay the costs and tho defen-
,iant to enter into his rccosnizancc to keep
tho peace.
Commonwealth VS.. Casper DittmaI, dc
scrtion. No testimony was heard i'll this
case as everything in regard to the family
affairs was developed i'll = recent hearing
in u habcds corpus case, when the father
cndcavorcd to get possession Of the children
The court ordered the dcfil.lont to pay Sc
per week to his wife, and besides paying
the costs to give bail in the sum of $500.
Milton Goss, the small boy who plead
guilty to setting fire to barn of Wilmer
itohrcr in Strasburg township was brought
| before the court. After hearing the evil
| dcncc, in regard to- tho boys confession,
and to his previous conduct, all of which
| has before appeared in these columns, the
court ordered him to bc taken to the house
| of refuge. He was given into the charge
OF the sheriff, who will take him to that
| institution.
Iiubc.s Corpus Case.
| Mary Diana Stout, 4 nine -year-old col
orcd girl, WAS brought into court in order
that the court might decide who WAS cnti-
| tied to her. She is the daughter of Aman:
,la Stout. but since 1876 has been living
with Joseph Cato and his wife, who are
very respectable colOrcd people and reside
in Little Britain township. Cato and his
| wife claim that in the year 1876, Mrs.
Stout, who wa; then working out as 4
cook with different people, had 10 place
for her child. She made 4 verbal contract
with them by which they are to take her
child to raise. They were to clothc her,
send her to school and maintain her as
their own child. Since that time they
have kept the child and did not want her
| to leave their possession. Mrs. StOut
admitted having . ivcn the child to Cato
and wife, but she said there was 10 time
specified for Ecr to remain with them.
Since she has been living with them
she (Mrs. Stout) has bought clothing fol
her to the amount Of $1O.15. She now has
had y guardian appointed for the child and
u place for it to go. On the other side il
was shown that Mrs. Stout gave the goods
only as Il present to her child, who was moi
in need for them. Mrs. Stout also claimed
that upon one occasion tho child had been
severely whipped by Mrs. Cato. The
latter denied that, however. The court
after hearing the evidence decided to allow
the child to remain where she now is. The
little gir! upon hearing the decision seemed
us much pleased with it as did her adopted
parents.
Common Pleas Court.
This morning tho second week of com
n,on pleas court began, with Judge Pattcr
son presiding.
There were thirty cases down Oh Tho
list for trial, eighteen of which have
either been continued, settled or otherwise
disposed of.
In tho case of John Z. Campbell ant
Elias Campbell vs.. William n. Smith, tn,
plaintiffs suffered n non-suit.
AS there were nO cases ready for jury
trial this morning. the jurors were dis
charged, and court adjourned until half
past two o'clock this afternoon.
In Court.
John II. Brinton, esq.,, OF tho Chester
county bar, who is an attorney for the
plaintiffs in tho Pickering Valley eases
was in court this morning.