Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-30
QUARTER SESSIONS.
ApJouRsru TERM or MAY oouur
'"oop W. Ebsrscio Convicted OF Burgiar,-
hcauitth OF Edward GolE All beiney

VS. Np'rscio convicted OF BurgiarJ-
hcHnitel OF Edward Gol. an beiney
~, round Nuiity on seven Charges
=, inaFsddy Afternoon, ,--COm'th VS.. Jacob
NJ. Ebersolo, charged with burglary Mt
the house of John a. Brandt Mrs.
brandt, testified that on Tho Cd of Dec.
1857, sho saw two strange men at her
homo and spoke to them ono man looked
aud spoke like Ebersolo about niue
o'clock two mon came to tho window of
tho house, ono carried a dark lantern, and
they discharged pistol through the
window, breaking four pancs ol glass aud
u lamp which was inside tho husband of
witness at once goU his gun aud discharged
" NJ tho men, who ran away, ono of them
eroaning loudly soon afterwards two
mon oamo out of tho stable with two
hOrneS on which they iUdo away tho
horses wcro afterwards recovered at tho
homo OF Henry COblc about a mile and n
half away. Henry COblo testified that
between . aud 10 o'clock Braudts horses
were lett at his house and u team consist.
ing OF horse and buggy, belonging TO
Allen Coblo were stolen tue team wn1
traced as far as Milton Grove, aud wa,
afterwards recovered near Middletown
blood was found In tho buggy.
DR.. Charles ToOmbS testified that he
lived In West Hanover, Lebanon county,
10 miles from EbcrsOlo's homo. About .
o'clock on tho night of tho robbery wit.
mesa was sent for to attend accused no
found him suffering from very bal gun
| shot wound IN tho breast; he was unable
to speak aud witness CUusidCICd his wound
dangerous. EbeIsu,c tdId he was about
six feet away from the man who shOt him
| and began to tell OF the affair when tho
witness stopped him saying that he waut-
| cd to know nothing about II.
DR. William T,tnha t,gftHpI tk.t hc
| attended to EbCrsolo after tho night of
the robbery, making number of visits
from thu nature OF the wound tho man
shUuld have remained In tho hOus5 for
several weeks.
Isaiah WillCs, constable, testified that
he received Il warrant iur the arrest of
EbcrsoiC for this burglary with another
| man no Went to arrest him at his home
| they heard . noise down Slaiis, but when
they got in the house ho mad disappeared
| leaving 5Omo OF hiS clothing behind. Sew
| eral other attempts wclg made 20 take the
| man, but hO VAS nUs captured until Sep.
| tcmbcr, 1888; ho WAS then attending the
funeral OF his mother aud was arrested in
| the church.
Tho deteuao was that of ~ alibi. John
| EbersO.C, tho father Of tho accused, testi-
| fled that bis son was at homo all day on
tue 81 OF December ~ 3 O'Clock ia the
| evening, witness w,I, tu bed, and his son
said he intended to 20 out coon hunting
| between II aud IL O'Clock the wiio OF
! the accused wakvnCd ny witness and told
him that Jacob had boon shot, which was
found to be true. The court would not
allow tho witucss 10 O., wha; his son said
at tho time ia regard 60 how the shooting
| occurred
| Ellen EOcrsolc, n sister Of the defendant,
testified that her brother left home on this
night about o'clock and returned shot
between II aud II o'clock.
Wm. Williams testified that Ebersole
came TO his homo on this evening /; he had
q qua ard dog and said ho was going to
hunt COOKS. The jury ICLGeTCd verdict
Of guilty.
In the cases Of larcUry against Edward
Getz, tho jury altor boiuS out four hoLrs,
rendered a yerdic. of Mt guilty.
| IRursigy EcsUiHq -- The casos against
| Eli Heiucy, for felou.ous entry ard lar
ceny (sCyCn lGdl' mCuts) wcro taken up.
George r. BaTth l)mGw, tho Philadelphia
detective, was upon the witness stand
ard related how Lo became o member of
the Ephrata mountain gang, The witness
| described several raids N de by him Ia
| company with tho delondan. on the nights
OF January and 1854 The first was to
| the tool house Of the Reading Il Columbia
railroad near Ephrata. lle;uey opened
the door with 4 switch key and went in
ho stole duubc barrcllcd gun the
| switch key was uumb5s . sO7, and 1t and
the gun wc!o produced IL court and iden.
titled by witness the accused showed
witness the key after lcayiug the tool
house ard said ho could unlock any train
on the V!iiryad.
On this night witness aud Heiney went
10 tho chicken rOust OF Jacob p MOhlGT (;
When near tho place H-luuy told witness
he should wait and 10 would bring him
some chickens when he returned he had
tArCc chickens, which 10 took home and
put in pen on a second trip TO this
place lrnoy took two Ch,ckcus. On tho
night ol January Il lIriney and witness
went on another raid toward SchUleck !;
they entered Stoinmetz's E meeting house,
as HONEY said ho wanted 10 get poker /;
he took nothing, however, aud when he
came out said, That's . id poor place
to 90 for anything Iley next entered
Daniel Steey's barn aud ueiney searched
for q sack, but got mona they thou went
to Adam Frey's barn, Ouj took nothing
they examined the chicken roOst at Fcey's,
but Ieuey said it vas too cold to carry
any OF the chickens without bag.
Before these larCeuie6 Bartholomew kept
Squire KrSatz and Constable Jones Ia
formed in regard 10 them. Other wit
nessCs were called who cOTrobOratcd the
detective.
The delenso called Daniel Hornborger,
who is also indicted for numerous
larcenics, aud ho swoge to facts con-
Trajectory to thuso given by Bartholo-
new and other witnesses. lhe defendant
was called 10 testify IN IA: own bolaII no
denied having had anything whatever to
| l., "a ,b.g. f., IT that ln INnF