The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-01-14
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MONDAY.
From the Daily Times
January Court opened Monday
morning amidst the usual scenes and
surroundings. Several desertion cases
were heard by the Judges this after.
noon. These come under the head of
surety of the peace cases and never go
before jury. They are disposed of by
the Judges. This will be a light term.
District Attorney Fisher has only thir.
teen bills TO place before the Grand
jury. These are for trivial ofTenses,
excepting the charge of gambling,
brought by Jos. H. Hawk. Of Kidder.
against John Rehrig, Nathan Lafiler
and John o. Weiss, all Of Weissport.
-Four cases remain over from last term.
One Of the four Is the charge of muir
der against Mike Dudor, for killing a
fellow Hungarian, near Tresckow. last
August. The other three are trivial
The murder case will be disposed of at
this term, and will likely he ready for
trial by Thursday.
TUESDAY.
1.-THE opening Of the Carbon County
court Tuesday morning a motion was
made for the postponement of the
Dudor murder trial to the next term.
Judge Dreher heard the arguments
and quietly remarked, IL guess we will
try the case this term, get ready gentle
men" and that settled it. +. NJ. Mnl-
hearn, Esq, and the firm of Rapsher &
Cassidy appear for Dudor Mr. Rap.
sher's absence at Harrisburg was
offered as one of the reasons for post
ponement.-Messrs. Mulhearn and
Cassidy urged also in addition. that an
important witness was absent and they
would be unable to reach him for this
term; also, that for want of proper
interpreter they had not yet been able
to get from Dudor full understanding
of his side of the case and therefore
they could not do him justice
The first case heard was the charge
of assault and intent to kill, lodged
against William 2. Shingler, of lie.
highton. Shingler was employed at
Summit Hill, and on Columbus Day
he lad too much celebration on board
A rumpus occurred at the Washington
Hotel, that place, in which his brother
was one of the participants. William
waded int his brothers opponent. a
man by the name of Middleeamp, as.
saulted him, and flourished a pistol
firing it snce or twice. The Jury re.
turned verdict of guilty of assault,
and Judge Dreher promptly sentenced
him to pay fine of $40, costs of prose.
cution, and be imprisoned in the coun.
ty Jail for a period of nine months. TO
he computed from date. In passing sen.
tence, the Judge remarked that in his
opinion the jury had made mistake
in acquitting him of intent to kill. at
was clearly proven" he said, "that you
fired the pistol, and did it carelessly, in
large crowd of people. Had the jury
convicted you of this count also. we
would have had no hesitation in send.
ing you to the penitentiary for several
years
Com. VS. John Davis. Indictment, AS
sault and battery. Prosecutrix, Mrs
Sarah Jones. Guilty. Sentence: pay
a fine Of 81 and the costs of prosecu
tion-no imprisonment. The boys
father was present in court and paid
the costs amounting to some fifty dol
lars. That was dear visit to Summit
Hill.
Patrick Lafferty and Peter O'Grady
plead guilty of stealing blanket from
the front of George w Fleck's sloth
ing store in Lansford They were sen
fenced to pay fine of 81, restore the
stolen goods on the value thereof, pay
the costs of prosecution, and be i'm
prisoned in the county Jail for tern
of two months from date.
Com. VS.. Charles McClafferty. In
dictment, larceny Prosecutor, c. +
Brundage. McClsfferty is not ye
twelve years of age He was charged
with stealing apples from car on
siding of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
at Audenried. The jury returned
verdict of not guilty. There wer
four other boys, Lawrence SouraB
Tony Rock, Jacob Badock and Mix
: Morady, involved in this apple case
They were tried separately, Their iur
was not so lenient It returned a ver
I dict of guilty.