Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-21
CRIMINAL COURT.
Verdict OF Not Guilty xeoderrd In u Larceny
Case-yariOus Cases Disposed of aud


C0se-VarlOus Gases Disposed of and
lsliIs Returned.
Friday afternoon n-Com'th vs.. Henry
Haas, larceny. The defendant was
charged with stealing sl00, a watch and
some other things from Abraham Ehrhart,
Of Penn township; the evidence showed
that Haas was in the employ of Ehrhart
as hired man in June last; on the first
day Of the month Ehrhart went away
from home to attend love feast, leaving
Haas at home; he WAS seen mt the house
up to noon, but Was afterwards sseu at
the railroad station at Mauheim, where he
exhibited u watch which looked very
much like Ehrhart' $; when the prosecutor
came home he found that Haas as w.il Is
the watch and money was gone; few
months afterward tho young man returned
and was arrested.
The defense call th, accused to prove
that he had engaged himself to Bowman
s. Brackbill, OF Conu:ugSville, Ohio, and
in fultillmeut of promise went there to
work he denied taking any money, aud
when he found that hs was accused ha
quickly came east and entered suit for
SANDER against Ehrhart; the watch do
fer dent had at Mannheim, he claimed, was
his own, and he sold it. Several witnesses
testified to tho good character Of tho ao-
cused. Verdict not guilty.
Com'th vs.. James Cassel alias John
Lewis aud John Murray alias AlOnzo Mur
roll, alias Haisel, colored. Both these
men were charged with felOuiOus assault
and battery upon "Little Ike" Smith, a
.colored barber in this city. On the 14th Of
January the defendants met Smith on the
street and began to quarrel with him, in
which Cassel struck him with crutch
breaking one of his arm. Murray stood
by and encouraged his partner by saying,
"GO in Sonny" The defense was that
Smith struck Cassel first and Murray did
nothing at all. The jury convicted Cassel
and acquitted Murray, with county for
costs. Cassel was sentenced to five months
imprisonment.
COm'th vs.. Ele Scholthauer, Of Colum-
bia. The defendant was charged with
nuisance in keeping vicious dog. 1t was
lunching Oft the legs of the passers by.
he was walking through public alley
fendant when the dog came out and bit
him severely this animal was "yallOw"
in color and was quite savage.
The defense was that the dog, which did
the biting, was pot owned by Scholthauer,
but by another man. On the day that
Brock was bitten ho was boasting that he
was not afraid of any dog and the biting
was the result of his teasing the animal.
The testimony in the case was very
amusing, and witnesses were called to
provo his good character.
The grand jury returned the following
bills:
True Bills: John Utzinger, Joseph Wei
die and George Geriitzki, resisting An Of
| ticer Ellen Moore, larceny J. s. Gra-
bill, violating tho liquor laws Amos
| Slater, feloniOus assault and battery.
| Ignored Lewis Getz, felOnious assault
and battery Aaron Breneman, John Her
cleroth and Martin Shenk, assault and bat
terry, with LeauGcr j. Lindemuth for
costs.
Friday ErGn,ng-Upon the re-assembling
| of court the commonwealth abandoned
| the case of Eli SchlOtthauer, charged with
keeping vicious dog, as they were un-
able to prove the ownership Of the dog.
A verdict of not guilty was taken.
Com'th vs.. Daniel E. Howe, felOnious
assault and battery. The prosecutor was
J. NJ Ressler, of LeacOck township. The
affair which was the cause of the
suit occurred on March IA, at the
| hotel of Jacob Warfel, in Intercourse.
| The testimony for the commonwealth and
the defense agreed that on the night
| in question Ressel came into tho tavern in
| belligerent manner and asked for g that
- Howe" he went around to
where Howe was lying in threatening
manner. Howe jumped up aud knocked
him down when ResSler got up it was
found that he had a cut in his head. II
was not shown by the testimony whether
the cut was from the blow Of the assail.
| ant or was caused by falling on the floor
| a good character for the defendant was
proven, and the court charged that no
felony had been shown The verdict was,
guilty of simple assault and battery.
Saturday Morning-Com'th VS.. Christian
Sharp, confectiOner. of this city. He was in
dicted for forgingstbe rame oi lis mother,
Isabella Sharp, to a note for S1OOdated
June II, 1881. The noto was alleged to
be signed by the prosecutrix made payable
to the order OF Mary Sharp and endorsed
by Christian Sharp and Mary Sharp, by
way of transfer to Joseph Roger. Mrs.
Sharp positively swore that the name to
the note was forgery. and Il. Il. Sharp,
| a brother of the accused, swors to the
same fact. Joseph Roger testified that he
received the note from the accused for $50
in cash and q bill Of tho same amount,
which he owed him.
The defense called the accused aud his
daughter and by him it was shown that
Mrs. Sharp signed this note in their pres-
ence. The note was given for book ac-
count Of SS7.25 aud 1915 in cash tho
latter was given her by accused to make
the sum Sl0O several witnesses testified
that the signature was genuine. The
commonwealth abandoned this case also
and verdict of not guilty was taken.
The case of John B. Dennis, charged
with forgery, was continued, rs it could
not be reached.
Several old cases Of ex-District Attorney
Eshelman were disposed of by taking YER
diets of not guilty. with county for Office
costs.
Com'th VI. Henry Haughton, of this
city. The defendant was charged with
having made an unprovoked assault on
John Irwin, Oh the 10Th Of January, by
hitting him on the mouth and knocking
one of his teeth out. The testimony for
the defense showed that on this
day Irwin and David Faeglsy went
to the livery stable of HaughtOn's father
on North Queen street, where defendant
was both were very drunk and they at
once began abusing Haughton they
cursed and swore aud used very indecent
language Haughton ordered them to
leave, but they refused to go and continued
to use ugly language concerning defend
ant finally Faeglcy struck Haughton, and
Irwin, with his fists closed and his hands
up, kept following HaughtOD, and when
Faegley struck him Haughton struck him
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