Bridgeton pioneer., 1890-10-30

next sworn. His testimony was prac-
tically the same as given by johnson.
He admitted that he told Watchman
Leary that he had a couple of women
he wanted to slip in the factory. He
said this because he wanted toI slip in
the cars and drink the beer. In the
cross-examination Bogar was much
confused by the questions of the Prose
cutor.
A. Lincoln johnson said he went to
julie Freeman's house with Bogar
after the pocket book. julie was sus
picioned, because when Bogar asked
Charity for the book, julie promptly
spoke up and said she would not give
up the pocket book for dollar.
Squire Riley was called to prove that
coal cars were always where julie and
Charity said the box cars were, on the
corner of Pearl and Laurel street.
This ended the defense.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
The rain fell incessantly and the
Court room had more dreary appear
ance than ever. The attendance,
however, was not diminished because
OF the storm.
Before taking up the case of Bryant
johnson, who is charged with the
same offence as Bogar, Prosecutor
Logue sandwiched in a case of chicken
stealing, with William Dorsey, quite
we'll known in Court, as the under dog
in the fight.
A. R. Fithian was at the helm of
Dorsey's craft, and he endeavored to-
steer it to safe haven.
On July last, Samuel G. Ayars, of
No. 1913 South Pearl street, said his
coops were made more roomy by the
sudden disappearance of several chick
ems. William Stiles, a night watchman
at the Cohansey glass works, found
one of the chickens and returned it.
His suspicious had been aroused by
certain information, and late the night
of the thieving, Mr.. Ayars went over to
WIN. Dorsey's house on Orange street,
and found the family had not retired.
The next morning a search warrant
was secured and he in company with
Constable johnson, visited the
dwelling of Mr.. Dorsey, and there,
strange as it may seem, were three
chickens, one a Leghorn, the others
Plymouth Rocks.
Mrs. Ayars, wife of the preceding
witness, added her mite to the case of
the State. She shut up her chickens
the night of the thieving. The chick
ems brought back from Dorsey's by
her husband the next morning, she
thought she could identify.
Constable johnson told of his search
ing the home of Dorsey, where he
found first in closet young chicken,
with its neck evidently having been
wrung. The chicken was dead, but
not picked. Mr.. Ayars identified this
fowl. Another chicken was found in
a box outside, and a third running
about the yard. The fowls were taken
back to Ayars' coops, where they
seemed to be perfectly at home. Mr..
johnson said he had warrants in his
possession for the arrest of two other
persons for this offense.
Watchman Robt. Leary said he saw
three men coming from the direction
of Ayars' coop. He could not recog-
nize them.
The State rested, and Mr.. Fithian
addressed the Court, saying that the
evidence produced showed that this
offense was committed on the night of
the 31st of July, and the Indictment
specified that the date was the 3Oth, a
very material difference, and he
thought the indictment should be
quashed. The Court said an indict-
ment could not be quashed at this
stage of the case, and even if it could,
that was not sufficient ground to quash
an indictment.
William Dorsey then went on the
stand. Denied the stealing of the
chickens, declaring the fowls taken
from him by the Constable and Mr..
Ayars, were his personal property.
Dorsey brought forth from bundle,
bag, which he said his wife had found
in the coop, the morning he was arrest
ed. and he pulled out a couple of
feathers, which William thought were
feathers from Ayars' chickens. In an
swer to the Prosecutor, Dorsey said he
plead guilty to an indictment about
fifteen years ago in this court.
Mrs. Dorsey said the chickens taken
from her home by the constable were
mis- property.
That was the case, and when the
lawyers had summed up and the
Judge had charged, the jury went
put to cogitate.
Five minutes later the jury returned
N the room and rendered a verdict of