The daily gazette., 1882-10-25
WILMINGTON, DEL. OCTOBER %, 1882.
LONG SESSION.
Two Hours at the city Hall Trials Last
Evening,

Two Hours at the city Hall Trials Last
| Evening.
Bernard Daley and Thomas B. Campbell.
both of whom had been laid out by that ter
rible mixture known as Front street light
ming, aud had TO be wheeled to the Hall 10y
officer Vickers, were fined 81 and costs each.
Michael Haughey, he of the four suppeis
recorded last week, was fined 81 for being
drunk and disorjerly. His companion, an
old soldier. who was not drunk was released
QUARTETTE OF sHARPERs.
Edward Asbury and j. w. Stewart were
| held as suspicious characters. Harry Brown l.,
! the Front street coal dealer, and Patrick
smith, his driver, testified to the two men,
with two others, have visited the formers
coal yard and acting in suspicious manner.
They came during the absence of Mr.. Brown.
aud while Asbury engaged the driver Smith
In the yard, discussing coal, Stewart was
seen 10 be dodglng around the Office. After
they lett 1t was discovered that an attempt
had been made to pry open drawer In the
| Office. Brown followed the men and both
he and Smith saw them 20 into the mill of
w. G. Valentine, on Front street near West.
| They also visited the coal Office of Hession.
Stewart and Asbury, who left the other two
strangers, were arrested at the instance of
Brown In Captain Shaws restaurant, Sixth
Il
Asbury came into his mill and began to
make arrangements for the proprietor to
take care OF o couple of horses for him IN
the stable near by. Finally, he and Valen-
! tine went out into the yard, the man leaving
In short time, promising to be back at 5
| o'clock. Some time after, when Mr. Brown
called to see Valentine, he found the latter
examining his money drawer, which had
| been pried open and robbed of nearly $50 in
/ n nd eiIu N an
| In gold had been left untouched
James Pennington, a colored man employed
| by Valentine, recognized positively Stewart
| as the man who came into the mill soon after
| Asbury had taken the proprietor into the
yard. Stewart engaged Pennington In con-
| yersation about the wheat the latter was
handling, and suddenly left. AS Penning-
ton turned around, In a minute or two, he
| saw another man with red moustache and
| side whiskers coming from the direction of
| the Office. The stranger exclaimed "Tell
| your boss to send me that bran," and in re-
| ply as to what his name was, added, she
| knows me; its all right" and left hur-
| riedly. The witness identified both Stewart
and Asbury as having been in the mill.
Asbury, who is slick, dappcr little fel-
low, with bald head, piercing eyes, smooth
face with the exception Of slight NOUS
taehc, thin and tightly set lips, and dressed
| brief fcross-eXanination but failed. When
| asked to give an account of himself he de-
! elincd to do SO. Stewart, who was also
| well dressed and wore dark chin whiskers
| and moustache, said Asbury was stranger
to him, and that he, Stewart, had como here
to sec brother who was working at one
time on the Commercial, but had left the
city, he had discovered on his arrival here
lie said he had been drinking for couple
of days.
Three of the witnesses sworc positively
that the defendants had been seen together
with two other men, acting in suspicious
manner, at tAress.diiFeTrtf places. PEN
nlngton's tcstmonywas particularly sharp,
and the decisive manner in which he
answered questions put by one of the
prisoners as to whether the three men had
been seen together, by replying, "No, not
together, but you only came in five minutes
apart" created smile among the specta-
tors.
BuNKOED OUT OF HIS MONEY.
Joel Woodward, an old man, who said his
post Office address was Newark, Del, told
how he was inticed by stranger into the
back room of G. ID. Harner's cigar store,
2l5 East Front street, yesterday afternoon.
he said he was under the influence of liquur
and was induced to bet on three cards. He
lost 500, but on another bet he won $500,
the two men he was playing with stating
that unless he showed up $500 they would
not give him his winnings. Going out Wood
ward procured the cash and returned and
laid it on the table. As soon as he did so
the men seized it and refused to give 1t up.
As they were quarrelling young man, who
had been sitting in the store proper, opened
communicating door and exclaimed
''Gct out of here, you are gambling and will
be arrested" WoodwaIdPs companions one
whom assumed to be cloth merchant and
the other a drovcr-ncd, one over the back
fence and the other by the front door.
Woodward claimed that he was delayed In
his efforts to get policeman by the young
man in the store, whom he had arrested,
and against whom he appeared. The victim,
whose stery was told in very ingenious
manner, said the arraigned party had moth
ing 10 do with the game, but the latter was
put under $500 TO appear aG court.
FINED FOR MAINTAINING NUISANCE
Miss Louisa Smith, living on Orange
street between Fifth and Sixth, appeared
against Mrs. Catharine McGrenra, owner of
the Delaware House stables on Shipley
street, with maintaining nuisance Mrs.
Smiths premises, which are back of the
stables, are about five feet lower than the
McGrenra property, against which wall is
built. The charge made was that there was
not sufficient drains and pipes to carry off
the stable and manure water, which ran on
Mrs Smiths property, particularly when it
rained. 1t was proven that the stable yard
had long been nuisance aud was neglected.
Mrs. McGrenra was therefore fined IS and
costs.
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