Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-12-30
a SMALL TRIAL LIST.
OSlY vRyT CRIMINAL CASES sExlIx 10 BE
DISPOSED Or TINS wgEx.
A lIerss Stealing suit Engages the
court's Attention the First Morning.
Tnc Testimony or Roth sides.

An adjourned quarter sessions court, 10
anluh the cases returned during District
Attorney Weaver's term, was opened NJ ~
o'clock this morning, with Judge Living
ieon presiding. There are on the list ior
TRIAL 10 cases. The important cases are
WIN. r.. Rodgers and Harry q. McNally,
uaanslaughter; Andrew Kane ana Abram ,
Gli6Sl. violating liquor law; 3. M. Paschai
6 81, libel; Elias Snyder ct al, violating
~ fIrst case called for trial was that
nGalnse James Bryson, of Ephrata, for lar
Gay. The testimony Of the commonweaItn
wes that Bryscn, on the IGN Iar,ns4 q A%s'otf Of
Millesville, . pair OF mules for s2s,..
80. Bryspu wrote what Lintner thought
was check and handed It to him. He put
it In his pocketbook and Bryson took the
mules away. When Lintner examined tne
inote payasse in sixty days he went
before Justice Of the peace, en-
tered suit for larceny, (Bryson having
procurod the mules by n TRICK
and had search warrant issued, on which
the mules were recovered near Church.
town. At the conclusion of the testimony
fer the commonwealth District Attorney
Weaver and his associate stated to the
court that the case could not be made out,
and verdict of not guilty was entered.
James Bryson and his son John Bryson,
Wef8
entry, larceny and receiving stolen goods.
The testimony OF the commonwealth's
witnesses was that Samuel Campbell hsd n
sale os live stock at Bird-in- Hand on
August 18th, which was attended by James
Brvson, one of the defendants In the case,
and Oscar B. Roth the prosecutor: brysH'n
bought horse at this sale and Roth pair
of mules. Bryson went on Roth's note
and Roth went on Bryson's note. On the
road homo from the sale 1t was
agreed between the parties that
Bryson should have the mules at the price
horse owned by Bryson, providing he
proved satisfactory. The mules were LETT
at the farm of Ida Rudy. Roth claimed
that the horse Of Bryson he had on trial
did not work satisfactory, he returned 1t
and took the mules from Rudy's stable to
his own; on the night OF the lo.h o., o,
August the mules were securely locked IN
Roth's stable and on the next morning the
the lock of the stable door was found 70 be
broken aud the mules gone. Roth went
to Brvson's place and there learned thai
they had the mules. They refused TO give
them up and then these suits were brought
On cross examination Roth admitted thai
after he recovered the mules from Bryson's
stable he kept them few days and senl
them back TO Bryson's letting the mes
senger to take the mules to Bryson, as they
were his property.
FOR GIVING LIQUOR TO A MINOR
Charles johnson, convicted at the las
term OF the court of giving q drink o
LIQUOR to minor on an excursion train tt
Nj. Gretna, was sentenced to pay fine o
$50, costs Of prosecution and undergo an
imprisonment Of forty days.
CURRENT BUSINESS.
The petition filed for change of the 10
cation OF the bridge at Woods mill wa
Withdrawn to-day. The reason given ].
that the expense Of changing the township
road to suit the proposed location, would
be too heavy for the township TO bear.