Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-18
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The April Term q Qsartir ssss,en

The April Term q Qaaxtir sssssens.
Monday Atternsos.- u Reuben
Batdorf, horse stealing. ThoOyidence
showed that on the 9th Of March last the
defendant procured horse, wagon and
harness from T. C. Pritz of Mannheim, for
the purpose of buying rags; he was to
have been gone ten days. Instead Of that he
was away for over two weeks. He took
the team to Baltimore and sold it and was
afterwards in Harrisburg: He was found
in that city by Constable Gipple. Of Man
helm, and admitted that he had sold the
horse and had done wrong. The team
was afterwards recovered by Mr.. Pritz.
The defence was that Batdorf was buy
ing rags which he sold to Pritz every
evening. On this day Pritz told him to
take his team and do the best he could
he went to Baltimore and sold the horse !;
the money for which he received when
arrested in Harrisburg he telegraphed to
Pritz, who went to see him ; he then told
Pritz that if he would 60 with him he
would recover the team for him and pay
expenses. This Pritz refused to do. The
jury rendered verdict of guilty with
recommendation Of mercy.
NOM III W.. JOS6pu hcooS JouCS SSuiAA
and Charles Coulman, larceny. 1t ap-
peared from the evidence that some time
in March Coulman, who is a boot black,
went to the Office of DR.. J. .: Boyd:
He was shivering with cold, and
he could sleep in the chair in his front
Office if he would make the fire in the
Office. One morning, after Coulman had
ham fhoro eouoro1 davc tho fmn other
boys came to the Office and left an
order for the doctor to 90 down to
Mr.. Eberly's, a clothing dealer on South
Queen street. The doctor said he could
not 20, and gave the three boys valuable
coat to take to Eberly's they said they
would do it, but instead sold it at store
on Middle street for 60 cents.
The defendants counsel asked that .
verdict of not guilty be taken, as they
could not be convicted of larceny as bailee
as it was not shown that the boys were to
return the coat, but were only entrusted
to carry it. The court ordered a verdict
of not guilty, which was taken.
Com'th VS.. Frank Lutz, VIM. Long,
Harry Resh and William Hoover alias VIM.
Wilson, of this city, larceny. Tho de-
PENDANTS are boys who reside in the north
western part of this city. They were
charged with taking between 700 and 900
pounds of iron from the Pennsylvania rail-
road company. 1t was shown that the
iron, which was identified by the officers
of the company, was sold to J. A. Bostick,
junk dealer, on North Christian street.
1t had been brought there and sold by
the defendants who mostly came at differ
ent times but were several times there to-
gether. Bostick testified that all the iron
of that kind was brought there by the de-
PENDANTS. Officer Pyle testified that when
he arrested Long he stated that he and
Lutz had taken iron and Hoover was with
them.
For defense Lutz was called and he tes-
titled that he sold no railroad iron to Mr..
Bostick that he knew of. The iron he
got at Fingers coal yard with permission
of Mrs. Finger. Long testified to the same
facts. Hoover swOre that he never sold
any railroad iron to Bostick. Resh testi-
fed that his father deals in iron in tho
winter. He took some iron to Bostick,
Under instructions of his father, but none
of it was railroad iron.
All of the boys testified that they stole
no iron from the railroad company. A
number of witnesses testified 70 the good
character of the defendants previous to
this charge.
Tho grand jury returned true bills
against Eliza Masch for murder and Joseph
A. Bostick for receiving stolen goods.
Tuesday Morning. the cases OF Frank
Lutz, VIM. Hoover, VIM. Long and Henry
Resh, charged with tho larceny of railroad
iron, the jury rendered verdicts of not
guilty.
The Masch Murder Case
The first. case attached this morning
was that of Elizabeth Marsch, the woman
who on the 18th of February last, mur-
dered her mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary
Marsch, who resided with her at
No. 4O4 East Orange street, this city.
The prisoner was brought into court this
morning from the hospital and was in
charge Of Superintendent Spurrier. Upon
being arraigned she plead "not guilty."
A jury was then selected as follows, there
being no challenges D. B. Becker, War;
wick A. Scott Clark, Drumore !; Israel
Carpenter, city w. H. Enck, Warwick {;
David P. Frankhouser, Brecknock A.
II. Howard, Manor f; Henry A. Kern,
Brecknock a; Christian N. Mayer, Dru-
more George Miller, Upper Leacock !;
Henry Rill, city Joseph Wolf, city J.
Fred. Yeager, city.
All the facts in regard to this case have
been published in tho INTELL1GENCER be-
fore and the public is familiar with them.
The following is brief history of the case'':
On the morning of the 18th of February last
Augustus Masch went to his work at
Best's boiler works. leaving his wife, the
children and his mother at home. About
a half hour afterward he was sent for and
when lie arrived at the house. he found his
mother lying on the floor she was un-
conscious and was covered with
blood, which was flowing from several
terrible wounds on her head. She was
carried up stairs and died in a few mo-
ments. The defendant was before the
coroner's jury she stated that she had
struck the old lady with a hatchet and
boot jack and afterwards stamped upon
her. When asked why she had murdered
the old lady she said that she had great
trouble and believed if she committed that
deed some one would kill her as she
wanted to die.
Drs. Compton and Welchans testified to
having made post mortem examination of
the body and they testified to the nature Of
the wounds, giving a minute description of
them. They also told of the statements
made by the woman. DR.. Welchans is
also a physician at the hospital, and both
he and DR.. Compton testified that she
is insane now and was at the time of the
murder. She was so insane as to be un-
able to tell right from wrong.
The defense offered several witnesses to
show that the woman was insane when
the murder was committed by her and has
been since. George Spurrier, superin-
tendent of the hospital, was called and he