Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-24
MONDAYS AuJit List,
Lines From Legal Quarters.

L. II. SMITH, the Sixth street mantel dealer,
whose store was closed by the Sheriff, on Fri
day, yesterday confessed judgments in favor Of
William ThaW for $3.50.
A MOTION was made yesterday for new
trial in the case of Elizabeth Kerr against
Joseph Elborne, the Allegheny saloonkeeper,
for damages for the death of her husband.
]. D. WATSON filed with Juge Slagle yester-
day, an amendmept writ in the suit of s. M.
Decker against the National Baseball League,
The League in this writ is treated as partner
ship. Service may be secured on w. A.
Nimick as one of the partners of the organiza-
ton.
CHRISTINE HoRNBERGER. the bewitched
Southside girl who imagines that Peter Kleist
las her under spell, was before Judge Magee
yesterday and, in default of $500 bail to keep
the peace, she was committed to Jail. Warden
Berlin will have an examination made as to her
sanity, and she may be sent to Dixmont
SUBPGNAs in divorce were issued yesterday
in the following cases: Nora Heckel vs. Charles
G. Heckel, for indignities to her person; Kate
Little vs. Walter Little, desertion; Jacob Retter
granted in the case of Annie Ferguson against
William Ferguson, and Peter M. Rolling
against Catherine Rolling.
JUDGE MAGEE yesterday made an order ad-
mitting to bail in the sum of $500 each two
boys named William Sloan and Doc Boden,
who are in jail on FIVE charges of larceny. The
boys were committed by Alderman Mullin, of
Mansfield, on the suit Of J. w. Love, detective
of the Panhandle Railroad, who charged them
with breaking into cars and stealing goods.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY Az
LEN presented a petition in Common Pleas
Court, No. 2, yesterday, asking that a commit
tee of three disinterested persons be appointed
to place value on the land of Jacob ]. Van
dergrift located near Herr's Island, which is
wanted by the Government for dam at that
point and for which an appropriation of $35, ,00O
has been made.
In the Criminal Court yesterday Judge
Magee sentenced Perry Bailey the Lawrence
vile detective, two months to jail for criminal
assault. Samuel Brady and Edward Courtney,
who were found guilty of robbing the store of
one year to the workhouse and six months to
Jail. John Schwab pleaded guilty to larceny
and was sentenced 80 days TO the workhouse.
JUDGE MAGEE yesterday filed an opinion on
the motion to quash the Indictment against
Colonel George s. Griscom for voluntary and
involuntary manslaughter, which grew out of
the killing of two boys on fire escape at the
Monongahela House. The motion to QuaSh
was granted on the grounds that the verdict Of
the Coroner's Jury, upon which the Indictment
was found, would not support charge of man
slaughter. This does not affect the indictment
against H. Wilson, the owner of the fire escape
upon which the boys were killed.
A DECREE was made in the Orphans Court
yesterday ordering the partition of the estate
of Mrs. Elizabeth Agerman, of the Twenty
eighth ward. Mrs. Agerman died in 1850, leav-
ing her property to her children. A petition
was presented in court by them, stating that
her husband, John Agerman, had deserted her,
and nothing has been heard of him for three
years past. 1t was ordered that he be declared
to have forfeited all right and title in his wifes
estate by reason of his conduct and the parti-
ton of it among the children was ordered.