Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-30
THE C0VRTS.
CIRCUIT COURT No. 0-Judge Hagnsr,

SlkCUlT COCRT mo. Z)-Juuye duyfteT.
plaintiff sis,so. Clements eagt. sipes; in9uisi-
ton and verdict for plaintiff for poss ession and
81 damages Studds agt Alexandra G Fred
erick Railroad Co.; motion for new trial. Gray
q Page agt. Falls; verdict for plaintiff for s5N.
Thomas agt. Johnson: inqu1sition and verdict
for plaintiff for $3.50. Kendall agt Mccartney;
motion to quash overruled Adjourned til
Monday.
EQUITY CouRT-Judge Cor.
Yesterday, Arundel agt. INLAY; sale f1rall7
confirmed and cause referred to auditor. Mar
shall agt. Marshall; same, and loan created.
confirmed and c. H. Cragin appointed trustee
to sell. Bozzell agt. Turton: guardian ad litem
appointed. Peugh agt. Davis; on hearing.
PROBATE CoURT-Jidge Coz.
Yesterday, in re estate OF Thomas Lewis.
liam c. Lewis requiring administrator to file
adequate bond, waS hled. Estate OF S. d. Scaggs;
letters OF administration granted to SAlle b.
May and George Koob appointed appraisers.
Estate OF Francis Golden; petition of admins
tratrix to sell certain articles aud to rent
others. win Of Martha E. Addison; letters tes-
tamentary, issued to II. c. Addison: bond. 81. 500.
Estate Philip A. Sellhausen; Ernest A. Sell
hansen appointed executor; bond In $4,000.
Estate Of Charles E. Ritenhouse: inventory
returned. Last will of Jacob Arth filed for pro-
bate Estate OF Josephine Coethen: citation on
Babit keefer returned served, Edward M.
wright: inventory returned. Estate OF L. w.
tate of F. Schafhirt; inventory returned. Isa-
bella NJ. Bittinger; guardian authorized TO pay
a note. Estate. of George Savage; agreement
of counsel filed. Estate Of James ESiin; order
or publication issued. Eliza III. Garner: will
admitted to probate and letters testamentary
tn issue to Charles E. Fraser. Estate OF Anna
T. Laub; order permitting executor to sell 81 ,000
District of Columbia 65 bond. Estate of Will
liam G. Valenttn; order of publication issued.
Will Of Lucy B. Mankin; will admitted to pro-
Rate and record. j. c. Lay; guariian'5 bond
filed. Several accounts by the register of Wills
were approved and passed.
CRIMINAL CoURT-JudGe James.
Yesterday, VIM. Randall, burglary and lar
oeny: trial resumed, jury resp:ted. Patrick
darlington, convicted Of assaulting police
officer, october %; recognizance in $1,000
taken.
To-day, James Berry, larcency; pleaded guilty
and sentenced to six months IN jail. Albert
Dodson John Green alias Mitchell. and Alfred
Minor, burglary and larceny; pleaded not guilty.
Chas. Murphy. assault with intent to kill and
resisting Officer Connolly; pleaded not gully.
James Stokes, convicted OF manSlaughter: mo-
ton for new trial arged and continued.
POLICE CoURT-Judge Shell.
To-day, Elizabeth Seaton and Thos. Terry,
yagrancy: bonds or 80 days each in the work.
house. Michael Landhady, do; 90 days. Au-
gustus Sietz, profanity; S or days. Chas.
Mansell, do; 81 OF I days. Jenny Day and Maria
Smith, charged with maintaining nuisance:
PERSONAL bonds to abate the nuisance. John
larceny OF set OF harness from Frederick
Hermann; 80 days In jail. Rachael Broom. as
sault on Maud Acton; $40 and costs. George
Burchard; forfeited. Margaret Kennedy, va
grancy; bonds or Workhouse.
EXECUTION IN VIRGINIA YESTERDAY. - Peter
Wright, colored, was hanged yesterday at
Liberty, Bedford county, Virginia, for the muir
der OF Robert Maupin, white youth, IN June,
1879. The execution was in accordance with
Virginia law, strictly private, only the neceS-
sary guard officials, ministers and three repor-
tiers being present. Wright came out from jail
singing I'm going home to die no more;'' sril;!-
iogly donned the black cap, gazed complacently
upon his coffin, declared his innocence, and
said he had no statement to make: gave his
body to his family, and was delivered to them
after death. He hung thirty-One minutes. His
neck was not broken, death being By strangu
lat1on, but no signs of pain were perceptible
On the 2sth day of June, 1879, Wright. who was
employed On the farm of Carr NJ. Maupin,
farmer, residing three miles south of the town
OF Liberty, Bedford county, Va, murdered
Rotert Maupin, aged Is years, son OF his en-
ployer. breaking his skull with dogwood pole,
three feet long and three inches In diameter
When it was discovered that the boy was dead.
Peter said: Eyes. he is dead, and I'm id glad
OF it, In July he was tried and convicted of
murder in the first degree. After all efforts to
save his neck had proved abortive, the prisoner
became shouting Christian. declaring his full
preparation for death, and denying that he had
committed the murder, saying that old Maupin
threw a stone at him (Wright) which struck
young Maupin and killed him.