Evening journal., 1894-02-05
FEBRUARY TERM BEGINS
The Criminal Court is Now
Sitting in This County.
NO CAPITAL GASES TO BE TRIED

Five Cases of Assault with Intent TO
Commit DIurder-"PoIicy King" Levy
VIII BE Presented to the Grand Jury.
Classification of the BIns Presented TO
the G rand Jury.
The February term of court began this
morning. AS there are no capital cases
the Court of Oyer and Terminer will have
nothing to do, and Judge Grubb will not
sit in an official capacity. Singularly
enough, all the judges Of the state were
in the Court House to-day Chief Justice
Lore, Associate Judges Marvel and Cullen
sat in the Court of General Sessions Of
the Peace and Jail Delivery and the
Superior Court, while Chancellor VOL
colt and Judge Grubb presided over the
destinies of the Orphans Court in the
Levy Court room.
This week will be devoted to the
criminal concerns of the county by the
Court of General Sessions, and the dis
pensatlon Of this class of justice my ex-
tend into next week. 1t is safe to
| predict, however, that some civil busi-
ness will be taken up and disposed Of
next week.
The same grand and petit jurors who
served during the November term will
serve in February, while the additional
jurors, drawn for Oyer and Terminer
business, will have nothing to do.
Criminal Cases 20 Come Up.
For a week or more Attorney. General
Nicholson and Deputy Attorney General
Giles, the able state prosecutors, have
been bnsiy engaged in preparing for the
term. They found the bills handed up
to them for presentation to the grand
jury to be classified as follows: Larceny,
Is; carrying concealed deadly weapon,
8 assault with intent to commit murder.
5 chicken stealing, s; obtaining money
under false pretenses, 2; bastardy /
har boring and using a female child
under 10 years old for purposes Of
sexual intercourse, / assault with in.
tent 10 commit rape, / abortion, / ;
keeping gaming table, ?; interest in
policy writing, three bills against one
man; barnburning 1 burglary, 2;
assault ard battery, B; forgery, l. en-
bezzlement, 1; highway robbery, l.
The Case Against DIR. Cameron.
The interest Of the term will centre in
the efforts of several women to secure
the conviction Of DR.. Cameron, accused
of having performed a delicate and un-
lawful operation upon Retta Burnight,
west side domestic. of prepossessing
appearance, whose youthful lover had
ruined her. For two or three weeks her
lover and others have made strenuous
Efforts TO get her out of the jurisdiction,
even, offering 10 go her bail in the sum
of 500. but she has steadfastly refused
to leave the home for wayward girls. e
which she was, in default Of bail
asst med by Sheriff Gould. Even tbs
efforts of her father, who came here
from Pennsylvania week before last
were unavailing She declared that she
would appear upon the stand against the
doctor, even though he performed the
operation at her earnest solicitation and
it was not attended by illness which al
any time endangered her life.
The state prosecutors have no option
They must present the bill 70 the grand
Jury Dr. Cameron is very old and in
firm; man whose children are highly re
spected and who feel keenly the disgrace
attending the legal proceedings Every
thing possible will be done to save the
parent from Imprisonment AS abortion
is a felony. continuance can only be obtain
! by law is from 500 to $500 fine and from
one year to FIVE years Imprisonment, in
the discretion Of the court. 1t has beer
several years since case has been tried
in New Castle county.
Attempted to XIII Their FelIowmen.
Five cases Of assault with intent Z,
commit murder is an unusually large
number The accused men are JohI
Leary, Charles r. Carter, Duckery John
son, Charles w. Laws and William
Frisbv
Eight persons who desecrated aud de-
I vastated the hen-roosts of New Castle
7 hundred farmers, are among the unfor-
I tunates Schooner" Long and Mix
Carney never seem to get enough o
, other persons property or the court
Justice This term they come up smil
2 ingly to answer TO the charge of obtain
I ing money under false pretenses, b,
representing themselves as collectors o
subscriptions for the Water Witch Steam
{ Fire Engine Company. John White will
I answer to the charge of harboring
e small girl for the qualification Of hi
passions. He has a companion in mis-
s fortune in the person of Thomas Riley
J. charged with attempting to rape littl'
$ girl who lives in Newark
Thomas Potts and Minnie Blake, tw'
9 oolored persons who know more abou
5 Hoyle's games than they do about wha
. their sentences will be, are presented fol
keeping gaming tables. Samuel ]. Levy
a slick and dapper PhilRdelphian, VIII
s has been in the tolls before, will have
= chance to tell the judges what he know
q about his interest in lottery pol licl
writing done in this city.
4 Must BE Tried for Barn Burning.
IS The prisoner who will answer to th
" charge of barn burning is a negr
named John Smittlx. The prosecuting
: witness will be Alonzo Whittock, OF nea
> Townsend Several weeks ago his barr
ten horses, seventeen cows and quan
| tty of proveDder were burned. The au
thorities think that Smittix applied tn
match.
Clarence Huntly aud James Fleming
both colored, are accused of burglary
William +. Brown is accused of forger
by the Delaware City National Banh
Highway robbery is attributed to JOsep
! I