Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-25
THE QUARTER SESSIONS



Accouns Of the lllness os the Dssssds.s
Miner Gases Disposed Of.
T1ursday afternoon -Com'th vs. Jacob
Wiegand. The defendant was charged
with adultery with Annie Sips, single
woman. He 10 . resident of Baltimore,
Nd, and the girl (who plead guilty to the
crime Of fOrnicatiOn) il from York. Some
time last spring the two came to this city
and lived together at the SOrrel Horse
hote. as man and wife. They Afterwards
went to BroWnstOWn, where they lived to-
gether at tho house of Josiah Adams.
Finally tho defendants wife came to this
county and found her husband. At Al.
derman McConomy's Office under oath he
admitted that he was married man. Tho
crime was also proven by tho testimony Of
Miss Sipe. The jury rendered . verdict OF
guilty and he was sentenced to pay . fine
of 80, costs and eight months imprison-
ment.
COm'th W. Walter Rogers, Walter
Deem and Frederick Loidenberger, cruelty
to animals. It was charged by the com
monwealth that on the 21st Of May last
Walter Deem hired q horse and buggy
from Thomas ]. Houghton, liveryman, on
North Queen street this city. He said he
wanted to 20 to Columbia and would bo
back in the evening. About or O'Clock
HoughtOn met Rogers, who was walking
on the street. He said he had returned
from Columbia early and had the horse
out at his fathers where he was having
him fed. About o'clock Mr.. HOughton
met Rogers and Leidenbcrger ON North
Queen street driving the horse. Rogers
jumped out Of the buggy and Leidenberg-
or was made drive the horse to tho stable.
The animal was in . bad condition, having
been driven very hard !; he was covered
with welts and foam and was so tired that
he dropped over in the stable a. soon as
the harness had been takcn from him
he could not be driven for . week. 1t was
shown that Deem was seen driving with
two girls in q buggy in this city about
the other two men were seen driving the
horse very fast ON Plum street, this city
Rogers was whipping the horse during
the afternoon Rogers and Leidenberger
were seen with the horse ut Intercourse
and Bird-in-Hand. They were driving
fast and the horse was tired.
After the commonwealth testimony
was in, counsel for the defense asked that
Deem be discharged, az there did not ap-
pear to be any evidence against him. Tho
commonwealth officer stated that they
would not press the charge against him.
For the defense Rogers and Leidenber.
ger were called, and they testified that
they did drive the horse to Intercourse ON
this day they did not drive fast nor beat
tho horse, they only touched him with
tho lines, a. he could not 90 fast. At
Intercourse they put tho horse in the sta-
BILE and fed him. Roge rs also testified
that he saw the horse ON the street two
days after they had him, and thero was
nothing wrong with him. Witnesses tes-
titled to Leidenberger's good character
previous to this charge. In the charge to
the jury the court instructed them to find
a verdict of not guilty as to Deem. Tho
jury acquitted Deem with county for costs,
and convicted Rogers and Leidenbcrger
with recommendation Of mercy for the
latter.
COm'th vs.. Barton YOhn, fOrnlcatiOn
and bastardy. The defendant was charged
with being tho father Of an illigitimate
female child, which was born to Rebecca
G. Barclay, Of Beartown, in May last, and
which died in two months. Barton upon
was the father Of tho child aud attempted
to prove that it had another father and TO
show that the prOsecutrix had made state
ments to that effect. On trial.
The grand jury returned the following
bills
True BiNs-Cyrus Fctter, ct Gl., assault
and battery WIN. Smart, defrauding
landlord Percy Shock, libel; Virginia
Robinson, common scOld Eugene Hum
phrey, false preteDse; Wilhelm Krug,
false prctenso Samuel Hoffman resisting
an officer.
1gn0red-JOhn Il. Huber, assault to rape,
with Caroline Miller for costs Ernst
Miller, false prctense, with Oscar Kuieg
for costs; Isaac CARRIER, adultery, with
Harrison Seip, for costs Mamie Thomson.
assault and battery, with county for costs.
Friday Worning.-When court opened
this morning counsel for VIM. Finney,
charged with manslaughter, asked for q
continuance of the case on the ground Of
Mr.. Finney's illness. Although ho was in
court yesterday afternoon and ready for
trial, he could not have borne up under
the excitement for more than an hour. uo
is now so prOstrated rs to be unable to get
out of bed and could not possibly attend
court. The counsel said that they did not
object to the appointment of q commission
to take testimony as suggested by the
commonwealth or to a board of physicians
being selected to report upon the state of
the accused's health at present.
The commonwealth did not object to
these propositions. They were ready aud
anxious 10 go to trial, but n0twithstand-
ing that they did not desire to be inhuman
towards Mr.. Finney.
The conrt then appointed DR.. John L.
Atlee and DR.. George Il. Welchans to ex-
anime the accused and report the state of
his health to the court. In about an hour
the doctors came into court. DR.. Atlee
stated that with DR.. Welchans he had
made an examination of Mr.. Finncy.
They found him very feeble and breath
ing with great difficulty. He had an affec-
tion of the right lung. He is very mucle, !,
emaciated and has a poor appetite. Unless
he was brought into court on q cot or a
settee which he would be allowed to lie
down upon, he could not bear the fatigue
of trial. DR.. Welchans fully concurred
with DR.. Atlee.
Mr.. Reynolds of the commonwealth
counsel, stated that ho would not ask to
try man in that condition. The court
also thought he should not be tried and
the case was continued.
Walter Rogers, who was comm itted of
cruelty to animals, was sentenced to six
months imprisonment.
In the case of Barton YOhD, charged
with fOrnicatiOn and bastardy, tho jury
rendered q verdict of not guilty. Tho child
being dead. he was sentenced to pay the
lying in expenses, >1 per week for tho
support of tho child up to the time of its
death, and costs of prosecution.
In the charge of William Heston and