The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-12-27


Court Proceedings.
At the Court of Quarter Sessions, held
last week, the following indictments were
tried
dictment for Assault and Battery upon
Samuel F. Gary. At the hotel in Rim
goes, on Caucus day, the defendant struck
Gary. The defence was that Gary was
attempting to strike and kick the defend
ant, and that the blow was given in self
defence. 1t appeared that both the de-
PENDANT IA young colored man) and Gary,
ian old white mani were partially intoxi-
Gated, as were many others in the crowd,
aud the testimony as to the occurrence
was very conflicting, no two witnesses
agreeing as to details. Verdict, guilty
Sentence, sixty days in County Jail.
The State v. Samuel P. Hodgkiss-In-
dictment for selling Liquor on Sunday.
On the part of the State the evidence was
that ON Sunday, November 10th last,
Aylmer Nye, who resided at High Bridge,
and who was then at his home in state
of intoxication, sent his son Joseph, boy
IA years old, to the hotel of the defend
ant, at Annandale, for some liquor that
Joseph and his brother Charley, aged 12,
and young lad named Morgan, walked
to Annandale, when Charley went in the
hotel, leaving the other two boys on the
outside that Charley told the defendant
he wanted some liquor for his father, and
handed him a note written by his father,
whereupon the defendant brought him a
bottle with some liquor in that he then
gave the defendant five dollar bill, re-
ceived the proper change, Joined the other
boys and gave the bottle and change to
Joseph, who took them home to his
father. On the part of the defence it was
claimed that Charley did not give the de-
PENDANT any note from his father, but
stated that his grandmother was sick and
had sent him for some whiskey that the
defendant put small quantity of liquor
in bottle, and gave it to him that the
boy offered him a five dollar bill, which
he refused to take, saying that be would
take no money but that it was all right,
he should take the liquor and 60. YER
dict, not guilty.
The State v. Elias Morgau-Indictment
for Assault and Battery upon Samuel
Ripple. In the bar-room of the hotel of
Samuel P. Hodgkiss, at Annandale, on
the night of political meeting at that
place, several persons struck Ripple, and
it was claimed that the last blow was
struck by the defendant. The defence
was that at the timo of the ARRAY the de-
PENDANT was lying in the stable-yard of
the hotel dead drunk, and was therefore
not present in the bar-room at all. Sew
eral witnesses were positive that they saw
the defendant strike the blow, while 9TH
ers were equally certain that the man who
was lying in the yard drunk, was the de-
PENDANT. Verdict, not guilty.
Patrick Fox retracted his plea of not
guilty to two indictments for Receiving
Stolen Goods, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to State Prison for six months
James Cumerford and James Maggie
each pleaded guilty to an indictment for
Assault and Battery upon Samuel Ripple,
and were each fined 81 and costs.
In the Court of Common Pleas, the case
of John Foran to the use of Lambert Ser
geant v. Joseph Sproat and others, Ex-
ecutors Of John Sproat, was called. This
case was twice tried heretofore, and in
both instances the jury failed to agree.
1t was suit upon duo bill, and the Court
held that the plaintiff had not proved
title to the due bill sufficiently to permit
it to be evidence, and directed the jury to
find verdict for the defendant.
The jury was discharged for the term.
-Hunterdon Democrat.