Evening journal., 1893-02-08
PETER MORAN FREE.
Grand Jury Ignores The Bill
For Murder Against Him.
NJ. A. MOONEY WILL STAND TRIAL

ne Pleads Not Guilty and Says He WIN
he Defended by DIR. Biggs-Famny
Bible to be Brought Into Court.-The
New Trial List.
Nearly two hours OF the session Of
Superior Court this morning were con.
sumed In going over the revised trial
list and putting down the cases for trial
at this term. The new list Is very ex-
haustive and includes cases that have been
before the courts for ten years back.
Some OF those suing and being sued have
long ago died OF quit the state and there
was frequent suppressed laughter when
the cases were announced from the com
plete list Of pending cases as read by
Prothonotary Horty.
II is the intention Of the new bench to
dispose Of all these cases In some way
and in consideration Of this, the work OF
going over the lists was postponed until
10 o'clock tomorrow morning. A num-
ber Of the cases reached this morning
were set down for trial at this term Of
court.
A Bill for Murder Ignored.
Early in the day the grand Jury
| ignored the bill of Peter Edward Moran.
OF New Castle, charged with the murder
Of Daniel Rordan. II is said that from
the FIRST the charge was found to be very
light aud had the case ever been
brought into court jury could
not have been obtained from the special
panel OF Oyer and Terminer jurors as
nine out Of every ten had expressed
opinions on the case. II was found that
Moran had cork leg and could not
have kicked his victim as at first alleged.
and that the man was also a sufferer
from heart disease and ganrene.
He gave Rordan. whom he found In
his own house, late at night, two or three
severe punches and pushed him into the
street. Afterward the fellow went about
for several days and seemed TO forget
that he had been assaulted.
Moran Goes Home Happy.
As soon as the action Of the grand jury
became known, Peter l.. Cooper, Eiq,
counsel for Moran, requested the court
! TO discharge his client from custody, he
hav ngsbeen imprisoned for several weeks.
| The Attorney General agreed to che
discharge and the court ordered
sheriff Gould to release his prisoner.
, The sheriff had brought Moran
over In his private carriage and when he
4 carried the good news TO the prisoner,
3 offered to take him back but Moran was
soon surrounded by friends who took
1 him out of the Court House and thence
D TO New Castle Moran was very happy
because he did not have TO sit In the
j. dock.
Mooney Pleads ''Not Guilty"
The grand jury brought in true bills
j. against Charles Saunders, for larceny
J. samuel Sewell larceny; William Dorsey,
d highway robbery; Thomas Kennedy,
larceny: Mary Bayard. larceny; and
< Louis Kline. criminal intimacy. Sewel
II and Saunders were arraigned and each
d pleaded guilty sewell is the negro who
entered Il. S r. Buffers store and stole
8 pocket knives and other counter goods
!, while the clerks attention was called te
II something else
Michae A Mooney was arraigned for
n forging a check for $50 on the Corn Ex
change Bank, Philadelphia on the
Farmers Bank of Delaware He pleaded
not guilty and stated that he hae
arranged TO have ex-Attorney Genera
0e John Biggs take his case and defen'
him. Mr.. Biggs was not present but th'
81 case was set down for 10 morrow
N Thomas Kennedy pleaded guilty o
"a larceny, asking for the mercy OF tn
40 court.
Elk Deputy Attorney General Thoma
AZ Davis was assigned TO defend William
10 Dorsey, charged with highway robber,
a on the Philadelphia. and Wilmington
A turnpike near Claymont
n. KIine's Test Case.
H. H. Ward. who was assigned to dc
fend Louis Kline, a neat-looking youn
white man who was arraigned for crimins
L. - - i
application that experts be engaged {
examine certain family records, includin
~ the family Bible. Il il claimed that tn
~ girl is over 10 years old. Attorney-Ger
q eral Nicholson objected TO the applicatio
IN on the ground that the girls father ha
11e sworn that she was only 10 years ole
10 and 1t would be establishing a preceden
0y to have the family Bible brought int
court.