Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-06-04
CRIMINAL COURT.
we n THE HaBECxER DuRCLARs Sen.
IExCED 10 THE PEMrExrARY.
they VIM serve seven Years, separate
asA solitary Confinement, a. Hard
TAbor-Two are Acquitted.

Monday AFTERNOON. the re-asseu-
bling of court At 2:90 o'clock, the trial of
Isaac Craig and Washington Cole, for
burglary, was resumed.
Tho defense proved that they were at
home on the night ofthe burglary by In
mates Of their houses, and they went onthe
Stand and denied all knowledge Of the at
tempt made to rob the Habeckers.
0eoFge Watson and Horace Dorsey, who
pleaded guilty.t to the burglary, testified that
Craig and Cole were not with them at Ha-
beckeS's and that they were induced by
/, CouseAble Wittick to say at the hearing that
the prisoners were with them by the In
6lucement made by that officer that II they
would swear that they were with them
they would get of free and II they did not
they would be sent 10 prison for nineteen
Z years.
In rebuttal the commonw ealth proved
by Justice Evans and Constable Wittick
that the statements made by Dorsey and
! Watson, at the hearing in the Habecker
case, duplicating the prisoners in the bur
plary, were made voluntarily and no In
ducements, hope or reward were held out
to the prisoners.
vERDICTs TAKEN.
A verdict of not guilty was taken in the
case against Hiester kieffer He was
charged with tho paternity Of Ellen Geiber-
ling's child and since the case was returned
TO court he righted the wrong by marrying
the prosecutrix.
A similar disposition was made of several
larceny cases sagainst David p. Locher,
Harry Holman and Amos Dyer. These
defendants were arrested for completely In
the Diller robberies, but there WAS not snfii-
cient testimony to ask jury to convict and
ON the motion of the district attorney, the
! above disposition was made of the cases.
AN INTENT TO KILL.
George Ammon was put on trial for
assaulting with intent to kill Harry i.
Iaverty, and with carrying concealed
deadly weapons. The commonwealth
proved that there was a gathering at the
White Horse hotel, Salisbury township,
after fox chase on February ~. Iaverty
was engaged In a quarrel with a man
named Harman at this hotel, and while NO
engaged Ammon, Without any provocation,
pulled revolver from his pocket and dis
charged It at Iaverty. The ball struck
LAverty on the head, but glanced of and
did not seriously injure him.
The defendant admitted that he had q re-.
volver In his hand on that night, and while
Iaverty and Harman were quarrelling
he discharged revolver I'm the air. Itwa,
claimed that .Laverty received the cut OF
his head by being struck with lath, In tn,
y hands of Harman. II was also shown tina
Ainmon's reputation for peace prior 10 thi,
charge, was Of the very best. There wa
no defense made IN to the charge of carry
ing concealed deadly weapons. ON trial.
Tuesday Morniag--Court met ut O'Clock
and the jury In the Cole aud Craig burglary
case rendered verdict Of not guilty. Geo
w. Watson and Horace Dorsey, who plead
ed guilty 10 the offenss, were each sen
fenced to undergo an IMPRISONMENT o
seven years In the Eastern pententiary
Dorsey got AN additional three months fo
sssaulting his wife.
David Dellinger was tried for stealing
coat from Frank b. Kendig. The thief
was committed two years ago, after whicl
Dellinger skipped out and was fugitive
He returned to Lancaster ~ an employe O
Barnum and was arrested by Constabl
BarnhOld.
The defendant denied stealing the Goa,
He claimed that no bought the coat frol
kendig, fHrlwhom he worked at that time
sh1lle III Welsh was charged with com
mitting an assault aud battery on Mar
Hteiger She testified that on tho "a ,
April, when she went To the stable ,
Welsh and demonstrated with him for teal
ing of boards from that building whic
she owned, he caught her by the arm an
also choked her.
He denied choking her and said that tn
stable was his by lease. When she cam
there and began cursing him he oriere'
her out, aud when she refused to 90 h,
n. L. n. "a. n III n.