Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-02-05
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and were discharged until next
waiter Apderson. who was found |
guilty OF the larcepy Of an overctat at |
the Washington House, Newark, was
septenced 70 pay the costs Of prpsecu-
tiou. $50 restitution money, and be i'm
prisoned three months. In conaidera
lion of the Jury pending him to|
tae mercy Of the Court, the lasheb vera
remitted.
A Jury was then drawn and the case
Of Joseph Kommlngs, charged with the
larceny OF . bOrse, buggy, set Of bar
ness and goat robe from George II.
Burroughs, was taken up for trial, with
Attorney. General BiRRs for the State.
and Harry sharpley, Esq, for the de-
tense.
After brief opening by Deputy At
torney- General Bisgs, he commenced
the examination OF witnesses.
George X. Burroughs WAS sworn, and
! festified that he resides at the Ebbitt
House. January Goth, the prisoner
| applied at his place Of business, No
Ills French street. and hired q horse
valued at $40. O buggy valued ~ $i25.
q set OF harness valued at $18 and o goat
skin robe worth $40. This was on
Tuesday, and the man promised to re
Turn the team In few honrE, but he
Ibid not hear anything OF IL until the
following Suuday, when Chief 0f Police
tDougherty sent him word that u was
lcaptnred in Washington.
He went to Washington the next day
with the Chief, and found the team at
the officers.
John Pilby testified that ha 10 em.
ploy ed by Mr.. Burroughs at his stables
No 1l8 French street. On the evening
Of January 25th, the prisoner came 10
him and said he wanted TO hire 4 team
the next morning to 20 out TO the neW
railroad bridge, TO collect some money
q man owed him. He came around the
next morning about 10 O'Clock and the
witness hooked up the team for him.
, When be got in the carriage ne handed
, the witness the price. ~, and after say
ing he would De back in couple OF
hours drove off, and the witness did not
see the team again until to-day, when
he went down TO the cars and got it
|, The horse was In good condition, bui
, looked little rough. All the articles
were there except . whip.
Al Chief of Police Dougherty testified
that he had been informed OF the thef
4 of the team. From information which
: he received last Sunday from Wash
inRton, he went to that oity on Mopda,
/. with Mr.. Burroughs, and he identihet
, the team rs his.
, Richard A. Arnold WAS sworn an,
testified that lie 10 Lieutenant Of polio
in Washington, and was informed b,
one OF his aubord mates on Saturday
January 30,h, that q stranger was Try
ing TO sell buggy and harness for
saddle and tl5, on Eleventh. street, Il
y that city. He went 10 the place an
found the prisoner who said that b
was the advance agent for Josepl
O Komming's Dime Museum, on Wash
ington street, Boston, and that he wa
= travelling 70 make arrangements 70
the company to 10 on the road In tn
II spring. He also said he drove frou
Boston and was going to North Care
lima.
,el When the witness examined the hors
he found that IL did not bear avidenc
y OF having been driven that distance
N and he arrested the man on suspicion
He then teleRraphed to Boston, 10 tn
,i Chief OF Police, apd received word tina
there was no such dime muAeum Il
" that city. The prisoner afterward
confessed that he obtained the hors
N aud buggy in this city, and the Wit
ness then telegraphed TO the Chief q
Police and received word 10 hold th
prisoner. On Monday morning Chic
IN OF Police Dougherty came TO Washing
ton, and identified the team.
orI Siegmund Block was sworn, and tes
titled that no is an officer on the detet
Ar tive force OF Washington. After Kon
~ minRs was arrested the liehtentAu
10 told him to talk TO him, as he was
81 German. He took him out Of the CO
Of and into the lieulenant's room.
erI Kommings told the witness that
81 had onl y been In this country nbou
nt seven weeks, and that while be was /
to Boston, the proprietor OF dime muse
um had met him aud took him into or
"A of the private boxes. He then engage
Id him TO travel for the company, an
ve provided him with the horse and bugg
TO travel with. He concluded TO 80
al the buggy and ride horseback, and tn,
et was why he had disposed OF 1t,
70 The witness examined the bugg
Al afterwards, and found that the pla
Ir with the makers name on had bse
wrtnched of. He had another tai
If. with the prisoner, when he Admitte
ce that lie had got the team from ma
ev iu Wilmington, but did not kno
liz what his name was. The witness the
q a corroborated the statement of the pr
er vious witness in reference 10 Chi
Ia DouGherty, and Mr.. Burroughs visi
av ing Washington identified the tear
When he concluded, the jury was di
hv charged until this morning, and Uou