Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-21
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| tuesday AtternOOR.-When court reas-
sembled the case of the cOm'th VS.. George
Wahl and others, indicted for malicious
mischief, came to a sudden end-verdic.s
OF not guilty, county for costs, being taken
in all of them, the authorities of Washing
ton borough agreeing not to tear down
lr. Shutzs fence. providing that within
four weeks suit be entered in the court of
common pleas in order to determine the
proper line of the street. Several surety
OF the peace cases growing out of the same
transaction i'll which B. X. Shultz, VIM.
Shultz, Stephen Shultz, Milton Shultz and
George Wahl We're defendants were dis
missed, each party to The suits paying his
own costs. In the cases of felonious as
sault and battery, also growing out of the
above difficulty, verdicts OF not guilty were
taken, county for costs.
Com'th VS.. John kOchel, indicted for
fornication and bastardy. Defendant
plead guilty to fornication, but not bas-
tardy, and the child being dead the plea
was accepted, and verdict rendered ac-
| cOrdngly. Defendant was sentenced to
pay a fine of SO and costs.
! Cont tn VS.. Samuel johnson, Seilia &.
johnson and Smith Graham, malicious
mischief. The defendants are small boy.,
and are charged with having placed a rail
across the railroad track, and then sat ON
the fence to see the locomotive jump. As
| application has been made to have the
Johnson boys placed in the soldier orphans
school, they being children OF a deceased
soldier, the case was continued until the
May court, to enable the boys to get into
the school.
COm'th vs.. Henry Wright, fornicatioH
and bastardy. Harriet d. Lutz of Manor,
prosecutrix, swOre defendant was the
father of her bastard child, besotten June
7th and born March 4th. The jury re-
turned verdict Of guilty, and the usual
sentence was imposed by the court
Com'th VS.. Henry Myers, assault and
battery. Defendant and Isaac March had
Il difficulty at tho house of defendant, in
C;ernarvOn township, on Sunday, Janu-
ary II, regarding bill of tobacco. Mr..
March testified that he had grown tobacco
on the shares on Myers's land visited
Myers house at the time stated in COM
| ptthy Win Two IlcIltiS, dSktu uOW
much Mr.. March's share of the tobacco
weighed defendant told them he thought
it was over 800 pounds they asked him
to show them the bill, and he did so;
March demanded the money due him for
the tobacco. and Myers would not pay him
because it was Sunday. High words
passed between Myers and March, and the
latter says the former struck him three
times and threatened to kill him. In this
| statement he was corrobOratcd by two
other witnesses. Myers acknowledged
that he ordered March out of the house,
and when he would not so pushed him out,
but struck no blows. In this statement
he was corroboratcd by his sou. The jury
returned a verdict of not guilty, and di-
rected that the prosecutor should pay one
fourth and defendant threc-fourtIs of tho
costs.
Com'th VS.. Bernard Shill, three indict-
ments, two of them charging burglary
and one larceny. The evidence was to the
effect that on the night of the 4th Of April
inst, the residence of Mrs. Elizabeth
Ginter, Columbia, was entered and robbed
Of two hams, two shoulders, a keg Of
wine, all belonging to Mrs. Ginter, and 4
skillet belonging to Mr.. John 3. Miller,
who boarded with her and on the night
of the 10th of April the hotel of Peter
Better, Columbia, was broken into and
robbed of = copper kettle, two hams, a
quantity of potatoes and other articles. On
Monday, the 18th Of April, 4 search war
rant was issued and at the residence Of de-
fendant was found Mrs. Ginter's wine ke.,
empty, portion of her stolen meat, MIR.
Miler's skillet. and Mr.. Bitner's potatoes
and one of the hams.
No testimony was offered by the defense
to show how defendant came into possess
sion of the property alleged to have been
stolen, but the Identification Of it was dis
puted and an alibi was set up, one of the
witnesses swearin. that he was in COM
pany with Shil 1T 4 saloon until 12 O'clock
on the night of the robbery at Bitner's,
and another Ga wOman) swearing that Shill
came home shortly after midnight blind
drunk" and that she slept in the same
room with him and his wife until morning.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and
the court sentenced the prisoner for the
Ginter burglary to one years imprison-
ment, for the Bitner burglary to ono
years imprisonment, and for the larceny
to ten days Imprisonment.
Iuesday Ecening.-COm'th VS.. John
Walledge, of Mount Joy, felonious assault
and battery, two indictments, one of which
charges him with shooting with intent to
kill his wife, and the other with shooting
with intent to kill his son. The particulars
of the case are familiar to most of our
readers. The defendant, a colOred barber,
broken down by sickness and impellsd by
jealousy, shot and seriously wounded his
wife, and slightly wounded his son by the
discharge of gun. When arraigned he
pleaded guilty to the felonious assault on
his wife on condition that the complaint
charging him with assaultin. his son be
withdrawn, which was done. The court
sentenced him to pay fine of $1OO and
undergo an imprisonment Of three years.
Commonwealth vs. Jacob Woods, color
ed, assault and battery on Lydia Pinker-
ton, also colored. 1t was shown that in
January last the parties to the suit had
quarrel in a saloon on Middle street that
Lydia slapped Woods two or three times
over the mouth, and that then he knocked
her down. The jury returned a verdict of
not guilty and ordered the prosecutrix to
pay one-thrd and the defendant two thirds