Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-04-19
GUILTY, AND NOT.
The DAY FOR PLEAS BY PRISONERS IN
COURT.
A Couple Of Dozen or More UniOrtunatsS
Arralgnsd A Number Given
Light Sentences in Jail.

A motley crowd was assembled in Part
Two of the Circuit Court, Judge PAUL,
yesterday morning, the Sheriff having
rounded up about thirty prisoners from the
county Jail that they might enter plea of
guilty or the reverse to the findings Of the
grand jury, according to the well-weighed
probability of a summary conviction or of
dismissal. The procession from the bas
tile to the Public Building attracted good
deal of attention, and there was quite a
crowd in the court room TO witness the pro-
ceedings.
The defendants first called were Lily
Bending, Mollie Rolla and Maggie Conroy,
indicted for misdemeanor. They prompt
| " plead guilty, and fines of $40 and costs
were imposed for selling liquor.
The next criminal cause was that of the
State v James Rider indicted for felony
James said he was not guilty, and the cause
will come on for trial soon.
Thomas O'Brien plead guilty to INSIDE
meanor indictments Nos and ,, and was
| fined S25 and costs in each and sentenced
to be confined in jail for three months, on
which term he is entitled TO credit for the
period he has been in the institution.
guilty TO a misdemeanor charge, got five
months in jail, with credit for time spent
there.
Thomas McGoven pleaded guilty and
got three months, and Anthony Conner
entered like plea and got five months,
both with credit.
Sherman Woodson, indicted for misde-
meanor then varied the monotony by
pleading not guilty. George Wilson then
pleaded not guilty, as did Patrick Murphy,
indicted for burglary, and Ed Carroll and
VIM. Church, indicted for robbery, and
John Kelly and Thos. Murphy for the
same.
Edward Collins, charged with misde-
meanor, got five months on plea of guilty.
He got ten days credit. John McTrane
also plead guilty and got two months,
with credit for the time he has been behind
the bars. On her No. lndictment Chris
tina Brown plead guilty, and got SO and
costs On Nos. ! and , she plead not
guilty.
William Ecker, indicted for a INSIDE
meanOr, thought the best way out of II
would be TO 'fess up, and he got four
months, with proper credit.
Benz Frazier, charged with stealing a
gold watch, thought he was not guilty, and
his counsel put it in express terms. On the
contrary John McCloskey, indicted for a
misdemeanor, said he was guilty, and the
Court made three months, with time spent
in Jail to be deducted. Charlotte Mccain
plead guilty, and was let off with six
weeks, with credit. Bruce Ray plead
guilty, and got seventy-five days, with
credit, and Ella Pemberton got $40 and
costs and one day in jail.
William Miller and VIM. McKeech-
ing, for highway robbery, plead not guilty,
and the case is set for Monday.
Rodney DickersOn was released in $500
on his own recogniZance, with the under
standing he was 10 behave himself. II
again caught in trouble the old charge
will be brought up.
In the way of civil business, in the case
of Ellsworth Eikey's administrators ".
the Wheeling Railway Company, the de-
murro was overruled, plea of not guilty
entered, and the case was continued until
next term.
In the case of Lawson and Laughlin's
executors, "A motion TO set aside the verdict
was overruled and an exception taken.
In Part One, Judge Judge Campbell,
twenty-three cases brought by the city V.
Conrad, garbage contractor, and appealed
from Police Court, were set for trial IN
patches of two or three to day.
| In the case of the city V VIM. Blattner,
an order of dismissal was entered.
| In the case of the city V. John Robinson,
appeal from Police Court, there was plea
| OF guilty and a fine OF s. and costs.