The daily gazette., 1881-12-24
COURT PROCEEDINGS.
A Dull Session Yesterday After
noon.

On the reassembling Of Court, yester-
day afternoon, the general jury was dis
charged until Monday, January Both,
1881, when the Delaware City p. E.
church case will be taken up.
Harry Sharpley, Esq, represented the
case of Mary Bleyer, on certiorari from
the judgment of Esquire Cole. Miss
Bleyer was fined SO and costs, by Justice
Cole, on a charge of using abusive and
insulting language towards one Clara
Moore. Mr.. Sharpley took the case 10
the Superior Court on writ of certior-
ari, on the ground that the offeuce al
legged does Lot come within the criminal
Jurisdiction of justice OF the peace.
The Cour' susl aimed the appeal aud re-
Court, imposing the costs upon the
Justice.
After turning down a petition for q
new roa In White Clay Greek Hd., on
account OF inform alities In the applica-
tioD, aud spending an hour in idleness,
Court adjourned.
Thi, morning Judge Wales will de-
liver lhe opinion Of the Court on the
MOTION for new trial Of the Harriean
case, alter which Conrt will sejourn
until January 80 b.
Judge Wootten then alluded to
Harrigan's offence, and to the full,
faIr trial which he had enjoyed, which
ended in his conviction, aid said :
"The sentence of this Court il that
you, jeremiah Harrigau, be commit
ted to the custody of the Sheriff, and
be taken from this court room to the
county prison, there kept in close
confinement until Friday, the Gath
day of March, on which day, between
the hours of ten O'Clock in the fore
noon and two O'Clock 10 the afternoon,
you be taken to some convenient place
within the prison enclosure and there
be hanged by the neck until you are
dead. And may God, in his infinite
wisdom, have mercy upon your
soul"
Harrigan listened to his awful sen.
tence with no sign of emotion save a
slight twItching of his lips. He was
at once removed to his cell.
| All the Courts then adjourned, the
Superior Court going oyer until Mon
day, January Both.
| The commissions asked tor by Mr.
/ ~ tbO otooloh " hsoOo'
damages for the Baltimore s. Ohio Rail
road Co.'s right OF way through Soutl
ChTisiiana Hundred, were upon the pro
perties of Edward Crsnston, Reuber
Satterthwaite, James Brown, Benjamin
Cranston, Pusey Pennock, William
Powell, George q. Evans, Samuel Find
ley, Fannie Bowers, Patrick Burke
Vincent e. Flynn, and the.heirs at'laW
of William Ii. Derrlckson, Samuel Scot
and Jackson G. Lewis, deceased.
ADJoURNMENT--H HARRIGAN sENTEN.
CED TO BE HUNG MARCH PATH.
Immediately after the opening, thi
morning, Judge Wales delivered tn
opinion OF the Court on the motion o
the defense for a new trial of Jeremial
Harrigan, convicted of the murder o
Dennis Shea. He refu ed to grant tn
motion, holding that the reasons of tn
defense-the improper separation of tb
jury, the lack Of vigilance on The par
OF the bailifis and the use of liquor il
the jury room-while they were lrregu
laIities, were not sufficient in extent t
aft ct the verdict.
HaIrigan, from the prisoners box, lis
tened to this opinion with his usua
stolid indifference Judge Wootte
then ordered him to stand up, and sal
to him, "Jeremlah Harrigsn, have yo
anything to say why the sentence @
death should not be pronounced upo
youP"
81 thought this man Dennis Shea brok
my place and ruined my family, wa
, Harrigan's reply.