Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-11
A WATER HAUL!
roc the yisiIant Railrnad Detectives

roe the visiIant Railroad Detectives.
Before Judge Patterson, on habcas
corpus, on Saturday afternoon was heard
the case Of George Keller, tne OF the boys
from this city who was arrested by Z. X.
Il. Detective Brady near Columbia for
riding on trains, and committed to Jail by
Squire Frank. lie was represented by
A. +. Shenck, esq.,, and the judge dis
charged him. This morning, ut his Office,
Judge Patterson also heard the cases of
William Costello and John CtzinSer, of
the same party. represented by Il. r.
Davis, cs.I ,anl they were also discharged.
Squire Frank, Officers Brady and Kcccl,
Mcssrs. Struck, Peck and Gilbert, were at
the hearing and their testimony was
taken by the judge. From this it ap-
,s.:,rcd that on last Friday evening quite
4 large party Of lads and young men from
this city boarded the freight train west
drawn by locomotive No. 80 at Dillcr-
vile, to 90 to Columbia to take 4 river
swim. Some Of them got into an altcrca
ton with brakeman and assaulted him
with :. stone, il is alleged. Word of it
was sent from Dillcrvillc to PhiIa
lclphia and orders were sent by
the officials there to Columbia to the
officers to arrest the party 1t seems that
they had gone to the river by this time,
had their swim and We're making their
way back to Lancaster Oh flcights.
Brady nablpcd three Of them and handed
them over to Kecch. At Mpuntville the
officers captured about 4 dozen more and
all were taken before Squire Frank. They
were identified only in general
way and were all committed by
the squire to the county Jail
for disoricrIy conduct: Charles Thomas,
Thomas Fisher and Thomas Prifl, all men,
hailing from Philadelphia, for ten days
each. Charles Leibley, aged II, for ten
days; George Borne, aged IL, for eight
days; John Utzingcr, aged II, for ten
days; George Keller, aged 10, for fifteen
days; VIM. Costcllo, aged IS, for fifteen
days; Frank Maynard, aged II. for eight
days Charles McLane. aged II, for fifteen
days; Harry Saunders, aged 16, iOr eight
days; Andrew Rutter, aged II, for five
lays-all these boys being from Lancaster.
IL WAS manifest that the grab for these
men and boys was somewhat indiScrimi-
nate. tie officers tcstifying that the whole
party comprised b or 40: little or no di-
rect testimony was lr"lnccd against those
arrested, and ali that the:e was related 10
their riding on freiShts and not to dis
orderly conduct. 1t was charged by
counsel AID it looked rs if
the commitments were SO made,
to heap up big bill Of costs in the
twelve different cases, for complaints,
warrants, hearings subptrnas, witnesses,
commitments, &c; rs in the case of viola
tions II the railroad law there is no prOvi
sion for costs. The commissioners will
likely resist the payment of costs in any of
the cases, where the commitments
were for Il different oifcnse al
together than that laid i'm the
complaint. Judge Patterson decided them
T." have been altogether irregular, and
those who arc in Jail can doubtless get cut
rs soon us they get a hearing. Justices
may learn that they cannot commit per-
sons charged with riding Oh .frciShts for
diso',lcrIy conduct simply to get costs not
allowed under the railroad law.