Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-02-11

'eo rsrker the committing Justice to pa
costs. r"
Oom- vs.. John CambelI and Frank Rec
luuictmenf tramps, prosecutor Samuel Lam
OH ignored and committing justice to pa,
costs.
Com. VS.. George Funk, indictment NOV
ing wood. prosecutor D. B. Doty. Settled
Com. vs. W. W. Rsylor, indictment for
nication and bastardy, prosecutrix, NJ. K
bittner. Rscognrzance renewed.
A. j. Patterson, E. D. Parker and E. s
oo'y' COMMITTEES acting under an order o.
Oourt examined the new indices recorded
oy the outgoing Prothonotary. George s
Conn., considered his bill and reported it a,
quite moderate, and the work most .ati,fac.
torily executed.
(. d. Parker filed a motion to sat ss;d,
the finding of the Grand Jury in the tramp
cases imposing cost on committing q iustic.
Leave was granted S. S. Sample to trans.
Ter license to John Crownoner.
The resignation OF 5. B. Loud on as Courl
Orier was accepted and J. b. NJ. Todd wa.
appointed.
License was granted to Shields at Meal.
istervllle, and Stevens at Port ROYAL, bu,
refused TO Sample in Patterson.
Petition Of john N. Moore and Jacob
beidier to assess damages for a road in
Walker and Della ware township. John Shel.
iy, ID. l.. Smith, and Joseph Long ere ap-
pointed damage viewers Petition for view
ers.
Petition for viewers for a county bridge
across Mohon tongo crock near Skaters saw
mil. Lewis Drgan, A. &. ShelIenberger.
ana John Musscr were appointed viewers.
fetition of citizens Of Patterson for view :
ers to assess damages occasioned by the al
teration of an alley in the rear OF the burn.
ed district on the north side of Main street
d. X. Suloutf, 7. J. Middah, F. F. Rohm.
Geo. Wyble, W. w. Copeland, VIM. Hart
man and H. c. Gable, were appointed.
The first jury case was that of Israe, C
Caldwell VS.. Joseph Bell and VIM. P, Bell.
II was case of ejectment TO move ex-Sher-
itf Joseph Bell from the farm that was own
ed by his father who had six children count
ing the first named defendant. Years ago
after the death OF his father Joseph Bell
took the farm at the appraised value, and
in the Orphans Court gave recognizance to
the other heirs. Somewhere between l5
and 20years ago action WAS brought against
Joseph Bell and Joseph Deeriug for a debt
incurred by them as merchants, S. B.
Straker and company of Philadeiphta,
brought the action. To satisfy the
claim, Bells farm was sold BY Shcr-
iii John Deitrick, Thomas Murphy became
the purchaser. The heirs came onward and
lamed that their brother Joseph had not
paid for the farm, their claims were reco.-
nlzed under the law, ana Bel! re'aained in
peacelble occupancy OF the land under the
sale to Murphy and the recogniz Incc ofthe
defendants co-heirs. At the tim. that Bell
ahd Dcering merchandised they contracted
a debt with Caldwell-Plaiutiff in the suit
OF Philadelphia. By action Caldwell oo-
tanned Judgement against defendant aud
was again sold al Sheriff sale, Caldwell be-
came the pure haser, but Bell as indiff-renS
to the sale and continued TO live on the
farm till 1882, when the present action for
ejectment was begun. Tue action VAS re-
sisted by defendant on the clam that the
title is not vested in him but in his son
Murphy all the interests that became vest
cd in Murphy through the first Shsriff's
sale and by the reconizance OF the other
heirs Verdict Ter Defendant.
Jury suit numbS TWO was the Common
wealth vs. Calvin aud David Gloos with
hm. 2. Bell as prosecutor Tor having burn
ed North Point school house in Lack town
ship, on Sunday night, December 2S, 1854.
1t was alleged that the boys while on their
way from u Methodist meeting held at Reeds
Gap stepped from the road and fired the
building. There Was snow on the ground
and the prosecution relied mainly gu shoe
prints in the snow as the strongest evidence
the boys were equal Tor the shoe print evi.
dence. On Wednesday night they asked
The Court to allow them in company with
the sheriff TO walk the b1ls in the snow
The Court granted the request. The Sheriff
would not accompany the boys and wanted
bail for their return. II was a quiet process
sion that filed out of the Court House, and
the two prisoners with lawyers Parker, Ly-
ons aud Jacobs, marched noislessly across
the street into Parker's yard and ther: on a
piece of untrodden snow, the boys with the
same boots or their feet that they wore on
the night that they attended the meeting, at
Reeds Gap, were required to walk and make
shoe prints in the snow. The prisoners
were again lodged in jail and tho lawyers
went 10 bed satisfied that they hal lot o.
tracks that witnesses could not identify
On Thursday morning witnesses were ia
ken over To Parker's yard to see certain shoe
prints in the snow. OF course they Were in
blissful ignorance OF the fact that the
tracks had been made by the prisoners on
trial. When the Witnesses took the stand to
testify they could not say that the tracks
that they saw at the school house ali the
tracks that they saw in Parkers yard were
made b. the same people with the sa me
boots on. Verdict not : uilty and county TO
pay the costs.
The third jury case was that Of Common
wealth vs.. Vim. Mccoy. Prosecutrix Mrs.
Mary Wise. for assault and battery. Mrs.
wise is a kin TO the McCny's by her husband
and she and her husband live in Milford
township, where they are keeping several
Mccoy children as paupers on the township
nf F.ru,apaph The care of the children