Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-17
raE AUGUST CouRr.

fHE AUGUST COURr.
Wtdaesday Atternoon.-During the
afternoon the grand jury made returns ~
follows:
True Billa.: John johnson alias Frank
Mclaughlin, two charges Of larceny
Aaron Snyder, false pretense Henry
Herr, larceny as bailee Cbas. Myers.
assault and battery Conrad Sauers, lar
ceny.
Ignored John w. Wright, rape. This
was the medicine man against whom
Mrs. Rutter, Of the Seventh ward, brought
the charge of rape.)
Com'th vs.. Leander Lindemuth, assault
and battery, consisting Of violently shak-
ing Nathan Feierstone, . weak minded
youth, whom Lindemuth accused Of hav-
ing said he had given him black eye. 1t
was alleged that there had been no intent
to do injury and the prosecutors charac-
ter for veracity was attacked. Verdict
not guilty, but defendant to pay costs.
Com'th vs.. Leonard Schoenberger, lar
ceny, charged with stealing s. from the
drawer of D. NJ. Moore's Lamb hotel,
which he confessed to having taken and
hidden in tree box, where it was found.
Leonard denied the Impeachment but the
jury found him guilty and the court i'm
posed fine of IS and six and q half
months imprisonment.
Com'th vs.. David E. Buchter, fOrnix. ct
Get. Celia Widmyer. mother of pretty
baby, stopped at David in search for
father, but she got her dates . year apart
and Drs. 8. T. Davis and Bowman testi-
fed that wouldn't dc and the jury cleared
him of the alleged paternity, and found
him guilty of foSpication only.
Com'th vs.. John Goodheart, fOrnix. ct
Get. Kate Gelsinger, mother of the child,
made out the case and the jury found him
guilty. Usual sentence.
Chas. Rogers and Henry Wood plead
guilty to the larceny of clothing and some
spoons from the house of VIM. Feree,
Georgetown, and wero sentenced to three
months in Jail.
Harry Herr, very young man OF ex-
cellent family, from Philadelphia. who had
borrowed gun and failed to return or pay
for it, plead guilty to larceny as bailee.
Sentenced to ten days and to pay costs and
81 fine.
Com. VS.. John johnson, alias Frank Nc
Laughlin, charged with stealing the horse
of A. j. Steinman, esq.,, and the buggy OF
Philip Hess from festival at Bethel
church in the lower end of the county.
The facts of the larcenies were admitted
and the insanity of the defendant was
shown by medical and neighbOrs' testi-
mony. By consent of all parties and under
the direction of the court, verdict of
"not guilty on the ground of insanity"
was taken, and young Mclaughlin was
ordered to be sent to the county hospital.
to be kept in custody there until ordered
to be released.
Commonwealth vs.. Conrad Sauers, lar
ceny of some hides from the tannery Of A.
Wetter s. Co., on Poplar street, this city.
Mr.. Louis Potts, of the firm, testified that
the property was stolen, and recovered
from Hollinger's tannery, Columbia. Mr..
HOllinger testified that Sauers brought
the hides there to sell on June 2, and rep
resented that he was York county
butcher.
Wednesday Morning.-In the case Of
Com. vs.. Conrad Sewers, charged with
larceny, number of additional witnesses
were called by the commonwealth. One
of these shipped the hides, which were
stolen, to Weller & Co., having purchased
them in Philadelphia. He placed private
marks on the hides, and at once identified
the ones found in the possession of Sewers.
Other witnesses testified that the defend
ant told them different stories in regard to
the manner in which he came into pos
session of the hides.
The defense was that these hides were
obtained by the defendants in excha aDge
| for lot of fish nets. Sewers is q net
maker and one day in May he went to
York to sell lot which he had made. He
disposed of all but q dozen, and OH his
way home he met two men In the road
who had lot of hides. They said they
wanted some nets, and defendant made !,
trade with them. He took the hides to
Columbia for the purpose of selling them !;
he told the parties that he lived in Lam
caster. The jury rendered q verdict of
| guilty. Sentenced to an imprisonment of
six months asd two weeks.
Com'th vs.. VIM. Mowery, Isaiah
Shinton, Michael Fitzpatrick, George w.
Grawley and Michael Mack, disturbing
meeting. The evidence showed that on
the night of the 9th Of April the
defendants attended performance Of the
"Hearts of Oak" iE the opera house at
Columbia; Mack, who is known as
"Skinny," and Fitzpatrick first had a
quarrel with the officers in the building
because they were told to throw away
their cigars the party sat in the gallery
and in short time the two mokes became
disorderly and began making loud re-
marks concerning the play they were
told to keep quiet, and finally the officers
attempted to take them from the building
they were taken out on the landing be-
tween the down stairs and the
gallery and the crowd including
the three. others followed making
q great noise. The doorkeepers and
others attempted to stop the crowd but it
was of no avail, and it is alleged that
Grawley, Shinton and Mowery made a
great deal Of noise, by cursing and
swearing. and they attempted to assist
their two friends who were finally landed
in the lookup. Tho opera house men and
police officers claim that they were COM
| PEELED to use weapons in self defense and
| several parties were struck. The noise
was very great and the performance was
stopped for a time. On trial.
The grand jury returned the following
bills
True Bills: Morris Dickson, horse steal
ing and larceny; Henry Welsh, larceny ;
Miller Smith, robbery, larceny and felOni-
GUS assault and battery; Simon Furlow,
fornication and bastardy; George Bin
genstein, felonious entry Elmer Huls:n-
ger, robbery and felOniOus assault and
battery William Walker, larceny and
carrying concealed weapons Henry LID
german, assault and battery Charles
Wolf, felonious entry and carrying con-
cealed weapons Charles Myers, felonious
on%.,, NhorIoo Raonnlo fOrn;naf;on ou<l