Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-09-18

mornings session OF court, which con
vened at ten O'Clock.
The case Of the State vs.. Edward Red
Iden, alias Edward French, indicted 70
the larceny of . horse, was taken a,
tor trial. and jury drawn. Thoma'
Davis, Esq, appeared for the State, bu
the prisoner was not represented.
Jacob Kroner was sworn, and testi
fed thas he In engaged in business il
this city last Saturday some one tool
his horse, valued 1t 500, and he wa
nna6le to ascertain anything about 1t
On Sunday morning he again started II
search of the horse, and found lie In !,
stable over Third street bridge.
Charles w. Nickerson testified tina
last Saturday the prisoner came to hi,
place of business, at Front and Tatnal
streets, and wanted totrade him q horse
He wanted the witness to give him hil
horse and - TO boot for the one he had
and the witness went with him ovei
Third street bridge, where the witness
horse was. He said that he had pur.
chased the horse from colored man
about five hours. previously, and did
not know much about him. The wit
ness traded horses with the prisoner,
aud gave him 81 to boot.
On Sunday morning he learned til Al
the horse WAS stolen from Jacob Kro-
mer, At BrowDtown, and told the priso-
ner nabout 1t on Monday ing, and
also that officer Marques was after him
for stealing 1t.
William Peters, boy, saw him
leading the horse along the pike from
toward Browntown, and William
Myers, another toy, testified that Mr..
KRONER told him TO take care OF the
horse, land the prisoner came and took
it away from him.
This closed the testimony for the
State, and the prisoner had a witness
called named John Porter, but his tes-
timony had very little bearing on the
matter. The case was submitted to the
jury, and at 10. 40 o'clock they retired.
Immediately after this jury went out,
the Grand Jury came in, and after
reporting that they hsd attended 10
all the business presented to them were
discharged from further attendance nj
this term.
jury was drawn and the case of
Joseph Martin, colored, indicted for
an assault and battery on officer Can.
non, while he was arresting the priso-
ner's brother on the night of July 26th.
was taken up.
George K. Cannon was sworn, and
testified that on the night of July 26th
he saw crowd of colored men at Front
and Market streets, making considera-
ole noise; he told Them TO go away, and
upon their refusing look hold of one TO
arrest him. When on Market street
above Second, the prisoner resisted and
the crowd closed around the witness.
and he was struck on the side Of the
head.
Two other witnesses testified to the
facts as related by the officer, and that
the prisoner was the man who dealt
the blow. The prisoner made no de-
feace, and the case was submitted 70 |
the jury, who, without leaving their
seats, rendered verdict of guilty. The |
Court sentenced him TO pay the costs of |
prosecution, a fine of $50, and be i'm
prisoned six months.
The jury In the case of Edward Red. |!
den, alias Edward French, returned at |
ll.20 O'Clock with verdic of guilty.
and he was sentenced to pay fine oil
500, the costs of prosecution, 500 res.
titution money to Jacob KRONER.
undergo an imprisonment of Is months.
and on next Saturday, between the
hours ofs 10 o'clock in the morning and |
2 o'clock in the afternoon, stand one
hour in the pillory, and be whipned
With twenty lashes.
w hen the sentence was pronounced
the prisoner turned pale, and his lips
moved as though he would speak, and
after he was removed TO his cell he
cried as though his heart would break.
The case of George Stewart, indicted
Tor the larceny of quantity of harness
from David X. Lyman. was taken mn
Tor trial, with j. X Bradford, Esq, for |
the State.
David Il. Lyman was sworn, and tee-
titled that ne resides inChristiana Hun
dred, and that quantity of harm ess /
was stolen from him on Saturday, In |
the early part OF July. He did not see
1t again until the following Tuesday,
when seeing in the daily papers that a |
man had been arrested with some har-
ness in his possession, he came in and /
identified it as his property.
Officer John Moore testified that ON
the twenty first of July he received a
telephone message TO come 10 Charles
Nickerson's at Front and Tatnall |
streets, as there was man there irving
to sell some harness which Nickerson
believed was stolen he went TO the |
place and arrested the prisoner.
Charles Nickerson testified to the
fact OF the prisoner offering TO sell the |
harness TO him for So, and of bis send |
ing for the police.
This was the last witness called, and |
the prisoner made statement that he |
was given the harness by another man
" sell for him, aud that he did not
know where he got 1t.
The case was submitted to the Jury |
without argument, and they retired at |
IL O'Clock, but they returned i'll ten |
minutes with verdict of guilty, and |
he was sentenced to pay the cost OF |
prosecution, s25 restitution money, be |
inpri soned three months, and on l
Saturday next be whipped with ten
lashes
John II. Rodney, Esq, made appli-
cation to the Court to Quash ali indict.
ment against George Fehrenbach for
selling lager beer without license, on
the ground that The law passed by the
General Assembly, establishing the
Municipal Court, gave it exclusive
Jurisdiction over such cases. Attorney
General Gray said that while he was
very much in favor of unfolding
the Jurisdiction of the Municipal
Court. he felt called upon to resist this
application, a. the case had been sept
to the Grand jury by that Court.
After discussion lasting for some
time the Court said the matter would
be held under consideration, and the
WITNESSES were discharged from further
| attendance at this term.
The witnesses in the case of Alexnn-
der Wilkins, indicted for an assault
with intent TO commit rape, were dis.
charged from further attendance until
the November term.
The ,,asa Of Eard n.