Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-02
:! It'd" BRIMMER.
THE ALLEGED INCENDIAKY On TRIAL

THE ALLEGED INCENDIAx On rxIA,
Charged with Setting Fire to Sanu,
fsaDck's Issrn-TestimOny oi Dr. RITZ.
patrick who Arrested Him.
Wednesday afternoon In tho case .
commonwealth Tvs. Mrs. Mary Swayne
charged with adultry tho oomnopvealtl
Offered to show by the reoOrd-tbat JOhl
Albert had been convicted Of fOrnicatiOE
with the defendant. The court Ovcrruled
the offer. g.
The defense then called tho accused
who positively denied being guilty of tn
charge, but admitted sue had been acquaint
ed with and visited by John Albert A mum
bcr OF witnesses testified to tie good char
acter of the defendeDt for chastity previ
Gus to this charge.
Jurors for Next Year.
The court yesterday directed the pro
thOnotaIy to issue precept to tho jur.
commissioners Of this county, directin.
them to place in the jury wheel names o.
electors from the several districts to tn,
number Of l., 400, from which shall be
drawn those who are to serve as jurors ir
the courts of 1888
Thursday morning.-The jury in the case
OF Mary Swayne, charged with adultry,
rendered verdict of guilty with a recon-
mendation of mercy.
Commonwealth VS.. Samuel Hoffman, OF
this city. The defendant WAS charged with
resisting officer A. G. Pyle, of the city
police force. on the night Of the 2Osb Of
May last. Tho testimony Of tho common
wealth showed that ON this night Pyle was
'srres1ng John Rowe, on North Queen
street for being drunk aud disorderly, wht n
Y>s 4 k1, J.,
s45thinS and scuified with him. Office.
Burns finally came up and tho mon were
arrested. except Hoffman, who got away.
merely assisting to take Rowe, who was
drunk aud noisy, to his home he did not
interfere with the arrest or resist the
officer, but went away after Rowe had
been taken into custody. The jury read
cred verdict Of not guilty with defend
ant to pay costs.
asri,nnIer Arson Cxse.
Tho next case attached was that of
com'th VS.. George Brimmer, jr., Of this
city, who is sllargcd with arson, in burn
isg the barn of Samuel Ranck, on the 10Th
of August, last. Mr.. Ranck's barn was
situated in Lancaster township just out
side Of tho city limits, and in a northerly
direction and just opposite the new alm:-
house buildings, belonging to tho county,
The day Of this fire the barn belonging to
the almshOuse was also set On fire AMI
destroyed.
The first witness called was Samuel
Ranck, who testified that his barn was
destroyed by fire upon tho above day. 1t
was started while he was away from home
at the poor house barn fire. II was about
3 3U'clOck, in tho afternoon that tho fire of
witness harm. took place There wore no
men at the place at the time. A horse
and several hogs, besides lot Of grain,
hay, &C., were burned in the barn.
Brimmer was we'll acquainted around tho
premises, as he worked right near the
barn at one time on some houses for wit
ness, he being painter by trade.
A map Of the premises and immediate
neighborhOod was explained by the wit
nees and exhibited to tho jury.
Adam Smith, driver of the hose cart OF
engine company Nos city fire department.,
testified that on the day OF the fire he saw
Brimmer In tho afternoon (; witness was
at the engine house when Brimmer came
along no asked where tho driver OF the
engine WAS he said am going to have
some fun this afternoon - whcn he Was
going away ke said, Look out between
this aud Irisl,tOwn ~ tho alarm for the
poSr house fire struck from box Il, at
East King and Plum streets about au hour
after Brimmer had gone.
DIR. J. A. Fitzpatrick Swnrn-l knew
George Brimmer Oh the day Of the fire 1T
Ranck's; l was on East King street whoa
the fire alarm was struck walked out
East King to the poor house; rs | was
going down the lane met George Brim-
mer coming up from the fire, and towards
the pike passed him but did not rccog-
nize him and after lie had gOno turned
and followed him [ kept on up the lane
to the pike looking for assistance. Brim-
mcr turued to tho right down tho pike and
crossed a fence into q field on the left, near
KOlhauss house met Lewis kolhauss
and he went along we went into the Kol
hauss property and through it and came
into a potato field by that tiuso Er;mmcr
had got around into L tobacco field of
BARS; he was going eastward, directly
toward the barn of Mr.. Ranck. We kept
on behind him until We got behind Clark 8
barn by that time Brimmer had gotten
to Ranks barn, back of which he was
there were some bushes along the barn
which he pushed aside, and then disap
reared from view between the bushes aud
the barn; he was out of my sight five
r.inutes soon saw him again he came
out where he disappeared; he was in a
stonp;ng position, aud walked 4 few steps
to fence, leading to the road
he got out in the road and was out Oi
sight in a few moments wc started
through Mr.. Clark residence and kept on
through tie gate on the pike !; Kolhau
refused TO 20 along asy further went