Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-24
COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS,
Regular April Term.

Frsd0y Attern0on.-COm'th VS.. Michael
Lentz, dlias Shenk, horse stealing. Thomas
Jackson testified that he lived in Chester
county; on the night of the 1st of April
he had gray mare stolen, which was re-
covered seven days afterwards at Leaman
Place, in the hands of George Diller :;
George Diller said that he met Lcntz at
Leaman Place, who gave the name of Mi
chael Shenk and said he was son of Chris
tian Shenk he offered to sell witness .
mare. After bargaining for some time
witness bought the mare, giving Lentz a
check for $50 becoming suspicious from
the actions of defendant, Mr.. Diller asked
him if he wanted the money for the check;
defendant said he did under pretense of
paying him, witness counted down some
money, got possession of the check and
then arrested defendant. The horse was
afterwards identified by Mr.. Jackson and
| surrendered to him.
For the defense, the defendant was
called and testified that on the night of the
1st Of April he bought the mare for $45
from Howard G. Wheatly, friend of his
| whose parents live in Chester county. He
paid him So on account. He told Diller
his name was Shenk because his middle
name is Shenk. The jury rendered ver-
dict of guilty.
Com'th VS.. Harvey Longenecker, forni-
cation and bastardy. The prosecutrix,
Lizzie Yeager, of Mannheim borough, swore
that defendant was the father of her
bastard child, begotten June and born
February 10. No defense was offered, and
defendant received the usual sentence.
Com'th VS.. John Campbell, indicted for
practising medicine without license.
The commonwealth summoned witnesses
to prove that defendant had violated the
act of 1877 for the suspension of quackery.
Drs. Bolenius, Compton, Carpenter and
NJ. L. Herr testified that defendant had
out a sign on which he announced himself
as DR.. John Campbell, and had seen him
| vend his medicines on market mornings in
Centre square. Drs. BOlenius and Carpen-
ter testified that they had seen patient to
whom Campbell's medicine was said to have
been administered whose brain was highly
congested, and who was lying extremely
low, evidently from the effects of \ mar
cotic poison. None of the witnesses had
ever seen him prescribe medicine for
patients. Deputy Prothonotary Slaymakcr
testified that he had not taken out a
license to practice medicine, nor filed an
affidavit until after the present suit was
brought. Geo. V. Reynolds testified that
he had seen him vending his medicines in
Chambersburg in 1878. and in York in
1879, and the district attorney to prove his
itineracy offered in evidence Campbell's
own affidavit that he had been manufacture
ing and selling his medicines in York.
Dauphin, Lebanon and Lancaster counties.
For the defense witnesses were called to
show that Campbell was not an itinerant,
but a permanent resident had lived in
Lancaster between one and two years. The
defendant himself being called. deposcd
that he had lived for more than a year at
ia South Duke street; that he manufac-
sugar." and "liver pills - that he makes
no liquid medicines such as DR.. Carpenter
described that he never heard of the
patient to whom it was said the liquid had
been administered, and that he did not
prescribe medicine for anybody. He man
ufactured his patent medicines and sold
them done up in packages with United
States stamp on them, and had been man.
ufacturing and selling them for years he
did not pretend to be graduate of med
ical college, or practice medicine, but was |
called doctor in the same sense that cow |
doctors, horse doctors and thousands of
others are called doctors. On cross-exam-
ination the doctor proved himself to be
very illiterate, not being able to read man
uscript or oven print placed before him by
the district attorney. He claimed that his
eyes were bad, and the light bad, and ad-
lnitted he was not much of a scholar. jury
out.
Com'th VS.. Daniel Miller, assault and
battery. The prosecutor, Martin Miller,
is brother of defendant. Both men are
we'll advanced in life, and respectable look
ing people, residing in Providence town.
ship. The testimony on part of the COM
monwealth was in brief that Martin Miller
had sold small tract of land to Samuel
Wallace, reserving number of posts that
we're cut and piled on the land, and
which were to be- removed by the 1st of
April. On the 31st of March he went to
remove them and found two of them sunk
n the ground ON either side new well
which had been dug for Mr.. Wallace and
vailed up by defendant, who had not
luite finished the job. The posts had been
lsed for the purpose of supporting wind
ass used in constructing the well. On
eaching the ground, Martin Miller began
o remove the posts his brother Daniel
high words ensued, and
inally Daniel struck Martin across the face
With piece Of lath, nearly knocking him ;
lown and badly backing his eye, and fol-
owed up the assault by raising an axe and
threatening to split his head.
The testimany of the defense was to the 6
fleet that Martin came to the we'll to take
way the posts before the we'll was fin
she'd Daniel demonstrated with him, and
S the controversy grew warm Martin adj c
trike him, and then Daniel used the latl :
, self-defense that he did not knock him !
own, and did not attempt to strike him '