National Republican., 1883-07-14
THE LEGAL MILL.
A Largo Amount Of Business Transacted in
the Courts Yesterday.
An indictment For Criminal LibcI-Five
wills FiIcd--Other Legal Business.
FIVE WILLS FILED.

$1,000 TO her neice, Ida Stone lnee Barbour;
5000 left to Miss Mary A. Robinson and May
l.. Overton, each.
The will Of Robert r. Pywcll bequeaths to
his wife, Ann Maria Pywell, part of lot s,
square 43l lot 26, in square 43l; lot 3, in
square 457; part of lot IL, square 400; part OF
lot g. in square 400; parts of lots 13, IA, 40,
and 46, in square 1865. lie directs that sew
eral membranes be removed from the title
of the real estate, and that on the death OF
his wife tho residue of tho estate IS to be
divided between his eight children. He nom
mates his wife and Robt. T. and f. +. Pyweu
executors,
The last will of Catherine Miller was also
filed. She leaves all property of every de-
scription TO her children, Chas Howard and
Frederick William and leaves estate in trust
TO the executors for education and support of
children. George and Elizabeth Schwab are
named as executors.
The will of the late Jane +. W. Kelly was
filed. Sho leaves all property, including
house 3l3 Tenth street northwest, TO her
father and mother, should they survive her.
INDICTED FOR CRIMINAL LIBEL.
The indictment against Edward G. Mason
for criminal libel reported yesterday by the
grand jury is based on four counts. 1t is set
forth that Mrs Mary +. Hill, widow of the
late f. T.. Hill, lodged ut the Dunbarton
hotel, 623 Pennsylvania avenue, for oen
month prior TO March III last, and during that
timo one Dc Witt Stearns, otherwise known
as Judge Stearns, n citizen of New Mexico,
lodged there and was an acquainta ance of
Mrs. Hill. Mason is charged with having
maliciousy, with the intention to defame
Mrs. Hill, and to bring her into public scandal,
on the day set forth composed and wrote
certain false, scandalous malicious and de-
famatory libel of and concerning Mrs HILL
['rhe letter on which this count is based is too
indecent for publication.
The second count sets out that Mrs. Hill
lodged at the Dunbarton three months prior
to May 8 last and Judge Stearns also lived
there and Mason at this date wrote to Mrs.
Hill a letter in which he says: " If you had
come down stairs the other night just after /
saw you kiss the judge good night it would
have been better for you than sending that
sucker When you shake him will let up.
But if you think you can annoy me- much
longer and kiss him in the parlor when you
think you are alone, you are wrong. Have
your fun with the judge now, just as you do
with every sucker you catch, but my time
will come soon, and then You can kiss that
Texas sucker farewell. He is going to have
some awful truths told him soon"
The third count sets forth that Mrs. Hill is
the widow of tho late +. T. Hill, of the Ire
mont house, residing at the fremont house,
and that Mason, ON the seventeenth of May,
wrote n libel OH postal card and sent it to
Dewitt Stcarns as follows: Judge, saw the
widow in Harver's tonight, drunk. Take
better care of her with dummy. Yours
truly. $. b."
The fourth count sets forth that Mason on
May II addressed her postal card containing
linellous matter, rs follows; widow Hill
drunk again. Harvey's, 10:30p. III. s. b."
1t is charged that these publications have
caused Mrs. Hill the greatest publicity aud
disgrace, and that they We're made for the
purpose of iniuring her. The witnesses are
Mrs Hill. DnWitt StparnS and George w.
Bunker.
On the presentation of the indictment in
court the district attorney asked for bench
warrant for the indicted man.
No NEW TRIAL.
Tho motion for II new trial of Olmstead
Ward, who was tried with Alfred Warren,
Joseph Marshall, and Washington Curry for
the killing of James Creek came up in the
criminal court yesterday. Ward was con-
victed and the others were acquitted. Judge
Wylie heard the motion and overruled it,
saying that there were no grounds for it. He
then sentenced Ward to two years in the
penitentiary.
AN INJUNCTION GRANTED.
An injunction was granted by Judge James
in the equity court yesterday restraining
Commissioner j. II. West from dsposng of
100 bonds of il 900 each of the New Orleaus
and Baton Rouge railway alleged to have
been entrusted to him by Mary Jane and
Charles Stipde. Judge James granted the
injunction until the final hearing in the case,
and said he felt bound to make the order as
the defendant had admitted that the bonds
were in his possession, and that he had bor-
rowed money on them.
OTHER BUSINESS TRANSACTED.
In the criminal court yesterday James alias
Shanty Collins and John alias Skip Skiving-
ton were called for trial The district attor-
ney said that he desired to nOlle pross the case
against SkiVington, which Judge Wylie or
dered to be done, saying that he remembered
the three card monte cases well and Mr.. Skiv-
ington had helped to break them up.
John Amber Smith and John Cruikshank,
as attorneys for James Berry, yesterday en-
tered suit against John Sullivan for $1,000
damages The declaration states that the
plaintiff lived in house No. 12l X street
northeast, and the defendant was the occu-
pant of the next house, that between the
houses wasan alley which the defendant OBJ
structcd and interierred with the traffic
through so that plaintiff was put to consider
able trouble.
A Baltimore detective was in the city yes
terday with requistlon for Edward Lilly.
The requisition was based on the larceny Of
$3.50 from person in Baltimore. Judge
Wylie said he could not act on the requsi-
tiOn, as the man had been convicted and SEN
fenced here; but he suggested that the Off
Ger hold the indictment until his sentence
nau expired.
Isaac Frazier yesterday entered suit against
Soloman Hunt to get release from deed of
the first house erected north Of Boundary and
Fourteenth streets northwest
The grand jury yesterday came in and re-
ported true bills against Jeremiah Costello,
forgery; John j. Alley, violating pension
law, and Edwin C.. Mason, libel, and ignored
the charges against Mary Koehler, grand lar
ceny, and Robert Robinson, housebreaking
Browning & Middleton, through their at
torney, l.. G, lIine, yesterday entered suit
in equity against William Il. Hunt ct al to
enforce payment of Judgment against lots "a
and 25, square sol.
After the grand jury had finished their
duties yesterday Judge Wylie thanked them
for the satisfactory performances of their
duties, and discharged them until Oct 8.
Walter McKenney pleaded guilty of break
ing into tho house of Ezra w. Leech in May
last in the criminal court yesterday, and,
being under age, was sent to the reform school
during minority.
Judge Wylie overruled the motion for a
new trial of Andrew Harris and William
Foreman for assault with intent to kill Dan
iel Shehan, and sentenced them to three
years in the penitentiary,
Judge Wylie yesterday appointed United
States Commissioner Mills TO take Judge
SHELLS place while the latter is away on his
summer vacation.
THE PrcoRn