Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-16
THE GRAND JURY.
BUTTWELYB TRUE BILLS RETURNED By
IT, YESTERDAY.
The Circuit Court Opened in an Unusually Imposing
Nanner-Ths Formal Order Put on
Record.

The Circuit Court OF OnlO SouuIs S'
for the November term in the new Court
House, yesterday morning, Judge Jacob
presiding in Part One and Judge Boyd In
Part Two. Previous to the actual lnau-
guration of business the Judges, the
Court officials and the Grand Jury, togeth-
er with quite number Of citizens, assem-
bled in the court room of Part One, where
Rev. R. Rush swope, rector OF st. Mat
thews Church, offered up an appropriate
prayer. The Judges then made brief adj
dresses, complimenting the Board oil
Commissioners upon the hberallty ana
good taste displayed in fitting up the
building and especially that portion allotted
to the Courts, after which Judge Jacob re-
turned to the court room Of Part Two, and
Part One was formerly opened by Deputy
Sheriff Blanchard. The Grand Jury was at
once escorted to the room set apart for Its la
Dor, and the examination of witnesses pro-
ceeded, the work being concluded amid no
little difficulty, the Prosecuting Attorney
having trouble in keeping track OF those
called upon to give in testimony, owing
to the confusion incident to the removal.
The Grand Jury came into court about
twenty minutes past three o'clock, and re-
turned the following list Of indictments:
TRUE BILLS.
Burglary-Henry Brownlee.
Grand Larceny-GeOrge Wilson.
Shooting with intent to main, disfgure,
disable and kill-Jacob Watson.
Petit I.arceny-Henry Tut, Leon Van
Walt, Lewis Young and George Straus.
Keeping house of i'll fame-Ida HOlli-
day.
Misdemeanors--Fred Shallcross,
Daniel Lasch, Ida Holiday and John Barr.
NOT TRUE BILLS.
Grand Larceny-Michael O'Donnell and
Frank McAdams.
Felonously buying and receiving stolen
goods and chattels, knowing them to be
stOlen-Daniel I.asch.
Petit Larceny-Joseph Garner, John
Harden, Leon VanWalt, William Kenney.
The jury was at once dismissed, with
the thanks of Judge Boyd.
The docket will be called in Part Two
at nine o'clock this morning, and in Part
One at two o'clock this afternoon. A
panel of thirty jurors for each Part was
ordered for Monday, NOvember22
THE FORMAL ORDER.
In part one, Judge Jacob, the following
order was entered:
MONDAY, November Is, 1856.
The members of the Board of COmmiss-
toner's of Ohio county, consisting of Geo. w.
Woods, President, OF Triadelphia District;
John w. Nichols, of Richland District;
Daniel Maxwell, of Liberty District; Mr..
Stein, of Washington District; Thomas
Prince, OF Madison District W. F. Peter
son, of Clay District John w. Boring, Of
Union District Louis Dellbugge, of Centre
DistSict; J. c. Picket, of Webster District,
and 6. A. StOker, of Richie District, the
Judges, Clerk and Deputy Clerk of the
Circuit Court, the Clerk Of the County
Court, the Sheriff and his deputies, the
Prosecuting Attorney, and other members
of the Ohio County Bar, and large num-
Der of citizens, met in the building at the
corner of Chapline and Twelfth streets,
used formerly rs the Court House of Ohio
county, and thence marched in q body to
take possession of the new Court House,
being the north half of the building for
merly used "a the State House of
West Virginia, but which has been hand
somely remOdeled and adapted to the uses
of the Court and its officers, and of the
several officers of the county. After an
invocation OF the Divine blessing by the
Rev. R. r. Swope, of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church, and brief acknowledgment
of the liberality and taste Of the Board of
Commissioners in preparing and furnish
ing the new Court House, by the presiding
Judge, the Court was formally opened by
the Sheriff
1T appearing that the order of the
Board of Commissioners, of Ohio county,
establishing the building now occupied as
the Court House of Ohio county, was
posted for more than twenty days before
this date on the front door of the building,
and also on the front door of the old Court
House, it is ordered that the same be en-
tered on the law order book of this Court. !"