Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-23
NOVEMBER SESSIONS.
TIL. WHEELS OF JUSTICE IN MOTION.

NUV ENlDCN OEOO1O4NOs
TIL. WHEELS OF JUSTICE In MOTION.
.c.... Bsfors the Regular Term OF Grim
,nsl cvuft.-A Verdict OF Not Guilty
In the Stuo1eahOif1 Case.
Weduesdav aftsrnoon.-Com'th vs.. Fanny
Gibbons. larcenv, Harry j. Nathsns OF
philadelphia, testified that he Keeps
pawn Shop at 80 Race street on tne 1su
Of August the defendan. came 70 MS omoe
and pawued the watch a.IeSeu 10 na'o
been stolen she received 90 "poH ~.
detective afterwards came aud iuQ>
the witness had q watch Of q certain D.
Der ; he looked at his books and found th,>
to he tho one witness was then subpGueo
to como here with tho watch witness
afterwards saw the defendant who came
to his office and wanted the watch. which
he refused to give up; the watch was
pawned In the name Of Mrs. Pusey.
Alderman A. X. Spurrier testified that
after the warrant had been served ON tho
defen;,aut. she told him that she knew
nothin. If Stuskcnholtz's watch; she said
she had not pawned the wasch tn Ph'ia-
delpha.
For tho Defense.
The defense called tho defendant, VINO
testified that she slept AZ Mrs. Stoc9on.
hOltz's house Oh the night Of the SSa O'
May, at the invitation OF his we tne
next day they started to PhiiadeiPn,a,
whore they were two days. While Id sne
Broad street depot, waiting for tho tram
for Lancaster, Mrs. Stuckenh0atz pro
duced the watch, which she asked witness
to purchase from her or sell for her; sno
did neither, and witness saw tho waecn
several times asterward in Mrs. Stuckon-
holtz's possession she asked witness 20
sell it for her. One day in August witHess
intended to 20 to Philadelphia. The day
before Mrs. StuckenhOltz came to her
she said she needed money badly aud her
husband refused to give her any at that
time witness had sold an organ, which
she bought In Philadelphia, to Levi NJ.
Stoner, Of Mountvillc, vino paid S6o for 1t;
Mrs. StuckenhOltz proposed that witness
take the watch for the amount OF the Dill,
which she would collect this she agreed
to do when witness started for Philade!-
phia Mrs. StuckenhOltz slipped the watcS
into her hand :; she took it to Philattet-
phia. and as she needed money pledged IT.
ut NatLan's. receiving sij upon it whelr
she returned to Lancaster sho told Mrs.
StccI,enhOltz what she had done Or
cross ex animation witness stated that sho
had not pawned the watch under tho ramo
Of Liszie Pussy.
Levi Stoner testified that in June Mrs.
Stuckenholtz and tho defendant came to
his house and sold him All organ for S65
Oh August no paid Mrs. Stuckenholtz
the money for the organ.
| William B. Flynn testified he hoard
StucknnhOliz say that he thought his vito
had taken the watch.
| A number of witnesses. who testified to
the defendants good character previous 10
this charge, were called and the defense
then closed.
the commonwealth, III rebuttai called
Mrs. StuckenhOltz, who testified that she
did not show this watch t., defendant in
Philadelphia or any other time nor did she
ask her to buy it or sell it for her; wit
NJ IS did not give the watch 10 dsfendant
in August before she went to Philadel-
phia there was no arrangement BY which
witness was to receive the amount Of Mrs
StoDer's bill for tho watch witness did
not see the watch from the timo it was
stolen until it was brought to Spurr~rs
witness did collect s6j OF MIR. StOner, hut
it was not for the watch.
The defendant was recalled and she
stated that at tie time Mr.. StODer paid the
money she owed Mr.. StuckenhOltz no
money. Mrs. Stuckenholtz was recalled
and she testified that she had an arrange
msnt with tho defendant by which they
wera To- divide the profits on tho sale Of
the organ; defendant owed witness as
much as MIR. Stoner's bill at the time il
was paid
On cr,,ss-exa,ninatiOa tho witnOSs was
asked to foot up the amount owing her by
defend ;ut, but she was unable to make IT
as m,ic!, as the amount claimed.
Tho jury rendered n verdict Oi net
: guilty.
Lewis Morris, Hebrew, who looks ex
actly like "Saln'l CT POsen," wal
] charged with stealing shirt, some none,
/, | a silver watch and o gold chain from JOhI
. Houser. Of DOrwart street, this city. To-
, whom J.. worked. He was arrested In
Hiris:.i.e with the watch in his posses
: sion. Ills defense was that HOuser owed
him money and he took the watch until
,, he paid him. Verdict, guilty. Sentenced
to six mouths imprisonment.
, James Henderson plead guilty to The
charge of open lewdness, and was sell
fenced to three months imprisonment.
The grand jury returned tho following
bills.
, True 6iUs.-James Stewart, Jesse Gable
+ rank w VclUlSI 8uO W III. IL OAOosAA AoA
cation and bastardy Martin Miller, AZ
sault and battery and resistinv an officer
d. f. l.. Wilmer, Michael Burns and Joh'
;. Drachbar. resisting an officer Lancaster
: city nuisance B. B. Albert, defrauding
:, hotel keeper S. Hackenberse- and n. +
:, Arnold. false pretense Robert Pressbury
!, Fred Grotwald, James Moore, assault an'
battery James Miller and John l.. Jones
- felonious assault and battery; Am0
: | Brown, Amos Fl. Kaufman and McnrO
# Buch, trespass.
al gaored.-Cbarles Fell, assault and bat
terry, With Charles Mooney for costs job
:, Drachbar, assault and battery, with count
. for costs John UtsiDger and John BriEl
> mer, malicious mischief, with county e
costs.
Wednesalay ecening.-In the follOWin
cases verdicts Of not guilty wero taken 10
>. want of evidence Jesse Cable, foruhc'
# ton and bastartly Elias Aumens, larcsn.
d AZ bailSe; George Braiule, assault ant
n battery Virginia Robinson, commo
v scold.
Com'th vs.. Samuel Gall. The defendan
n was charged with keeping disorder
: house at iIagcr and Beaver streets, tn
"a city !; it was shown that At night th
Ia neighborl,ood has been frequentl
% awakened by loud noises, such ;
g cursing, swearing and fighting. Sever
women of bal character ais
visited tho house. Gall denied havin
kept a disordsrly place ; if any noise
were made they were By his wife an
It women who went with her while he W.
Tho efspv rendered