Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-18
COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS.


First Week Of the New Year.
Monday Aftsrnoon.-In the case of John
Montgomery, charged with assault and
battery and surety OF the peace, mol. pros.
| was entered on the first charge and the
latter was dismissed, the prosecutrix Har-
riet Gregg being too old and infirm to ap-
pear in court, and being satisfied with this
disposition Of the case. . .-.,
Clara Smith plead guilty to the charge
Of larceny Of several articles OF household
goods from Clara Kautz and was seutenc
ed to six months imprisonment.
Jacob Moore, colored, plead guilty to
the charge Of carrying concealed weapons
and resisting an officer. He was sentenced
to five months imprisonment.
George Peck plead guilty to stealing
toy rocking chair from the front Of a %
cent store in Columbia. He was sentenced
| to six weeks Imprisonment.
Comth VS.. Alpheus Turner. cOlOred,
larceny. The defendant was charged with
stealing revolver from p. G. Sebastian,
coioied, OF Columbia. One day in Octo-
Der last, while Sebastian was aWay from
his boarding house a revolver was taken
from his trunk. The revolver was found
and traced to Turner, who admitted that
| it belonged to Sebastian and that he had
taken it he gave it to one witness to sell.
Turner'S defense was that he found the
pistol in the street. The jury rendered y
verdict OF guilty. Sentenced to five
months imprisonment.
The grand jury returned the following
bills:
yaored.-Francis Barkley, attempt to
ravish, with Susan Hess for costs John
Helter, with David Martin for costs Jerry
Green and George BOisley, entering store
house to commit felony.
Tuesday Morning.-Com'th VS.. John
Thompson, colored, larceny. (tWO charges)
and entering 4 hotel to commit felony.
The defendant was in the employ of Harry
Myers, proprietor Of the hotel in LOcher's
building, Centre square, this city, in the
winter Of 1879 and 1890. In the month Of
January defendant was discharged by Mr..
Myers; soon after that lot of towels,
muslin, two blankets and some napkins
were stolen from the residence of Mr.. N.Y.
ers, on East King street. On the night Of
the 22d Of January, the hotel was entered,
and all OvercOat, belonging to Harry
Greenawalt, bartender, in the employ Of
MIR. Myers, was stolen In November last
search Of ThOmpsOn's house, on DOrwart
Several towels and the OvercOat were
He
and Greenawalt as their property.
Thompson's defense was that he bought
the OvercOat and other goods from man
whom he met ut the Pennsylvania railroad
depot he did not know the man, but he
had seen him before in the town of Gettys-
burg. The jury rendered verdict Of
guilty. Sentenced to nine and a-half
months imprisonment.
COm'th W.. Henry Murray and Rudolph
Fry, neglect Ofduty. The defendants are su-
pervisOrs of Manor township and they are
charged with neglecting to keep a road in
repair. They are charged with refusing,
after being notified by \ number of citi-
zens, to cut down the steep ascent known
as . Prospect Hill,' which is on the road
leading from tho Lancaster road to the
'' Blue Rock" road. 1t is claimed that
this hill is so steep AMI abrupt that it is
impossible for teams to pass it, especially
1T this season Of the year.
At the outset Of the case the defendants
counsel stated that they could only be
held for neglect of duty, in case the road
had been Obstructed or had not been
kept in good repair. With the elevation
Of the road the defendants had nothing to
do as the road is now as it was laid out by
the viewers and confirmed by the court.
Their duty was only TO keep the road in
repair rs it had been laid out. The court
decided to hear the testimony to ascertain
whether the supervisors had neglected
their duty.
NJ. n. Brubaker, surveyor testified
that he made Il survey of the hill! ON We'd
nesday last. He produced map, which
was shown to the jury. 1t was shown by
this survey that on the south side of the
hill, in distance of 300 feet, the elevation
was 31.62 feet, and Oh the north side, in u
distance Of204 feet. it was &c feet.
The grand jury returned the following
bills: Is s.
Irue Bills. Milton Misher, violating
election laws David G. Shaeffer, receiv-
ing stolen goods o. ii. CoOver, larceny
Jacob Weimcr, felOniOus assault and bat
terry T. F. Carruthers, assault and bat
terry.
In the case of John Nj. White, charged
with larceny, mol. pros. entered for want
of evidence. III,
Death of John r. Helene. O..
John Philip HELENE, a resident of Read
ing for the past 12 years, breathed his last,
of old age, at the residence of his daughter,
Mrs. Elizabeth Iebzelter, No. q South
Eleventh street, aged 81 years. 5 months
and days. Deceased was born in Hesse-
Darmstadt, Germany, on the nth of
August, 1897. and emigrated to this coun-
try in 1880. Previous to going to Read
ing he. resided in Lancaster, where he
kept store for many years. He was
blind for the past 10 years, but found
much consolation in his afflictiOn by en-
gaging in religious worship. He was
the grandfather Of the boy Charles Leb-
zelter. who met with such sad death on
the Hill coastins grounds last week. His
wife was buried ON the 9Th of last July.
He was the father of ten children, six Of
whom are Tiving-Jacob Helene, Benj.
Helene, Mrs. Henry Shenk, Lancaster;
Mrs. J. ID. Killian, Schuylkill Haven;
Samuel Helene and Mrs. Elizabeth Leb-
.elter, Reading. In consequence of being
N business in Lancaster for SO many years
nc was we'll known here and had many
riends. His body will be brought here
or interment, services to be conducted by
aevs. Neitz, Leopold and Lchr.
BRAKEMAN SERIOUSLY INJURED
Another Columbian Has lsoth Legs Brokes.
Yesterday afternoon at Villa Nova sta
ion, on the Pennsylvania railroad, Samuel
Norris, brakeman, met with sad mishap.
shift of freight cars was being run at
'retty high speed along siding. Morris