Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-06
THE GRAND JURY.
FIFIY-FOUR TRUE BILLS PRESENTEB YES
TERDAY.
Among the Indictments Were Two Against Justice
". ". Rodgers, One Against Benz, Earn
shaw and One Against Harry Temple.

The grand jury OF the Criminal Court
came in at a quarter to five o'clock yes
terday afternoon, aud presented fifty
four true bills.
There was larger proportion OF fell
onies than usual. but two of the cases
possessing large public interest were
the indictments against Justice W. w.
Rodgers, both being misdemeanors, and
both growing out OF the disposition by
the Justice of the case of Klndleberger
v. Shriver, a civil action. The second
Indictment Of the two brought yeSteB
day, sets forth THAT w. w. Rodgers,
on the eth of July, 1898, in the said
county of Ohio, being then and there
Justice of the Peace Of Centre District,
In said county OF Ohio, did unlawfully,
while be, the said w, w. Rodgers, JUS
tice Of the Peace, as aforesaid, was In
state of intoxication and drunkenness,
from the drinking OF spirituous liquors,
which rendered him then and there
incompetent TO the discharge Of his
duty as q Justice of the Peace, with
dscency, decorum and discretion, and
then and there disqualified him from a
fair and full understanding Of the mat
tiers and things before him as Justice
Of the Peace, appear at his Office and
hold his court, and issue divers war
rants and summons, and did ender d.
vers judgments ia divers civil actions
and divers criminal cases, and did per-
form divers other functions OF his Office,
and did, while In such state OF drunken
ness and intoXicatiOn, unlawtully neg
lect to keep together in one package all
the papers in a certain case, which he
had heretofore heard and tried, and in
which he had rendered judgment, In
which Samuel Kindleberger was plain
tiff and John L. Shriver was defendant,
whereby he, the said w. w.
Rodgers, Justice Of the Peace
as aforesaid, was then and there guilty
of mafeasance in his Office Of Justice
Of the Peace of the said county Of Ohio,
against the peace and dignity OF the
State.
Then follows a second count in which
other serious allegations are made. The
news of the finding of these indict-
ments occasioned a good deal OF talk
about the Public Building last evening.
The complete list Of true bills re-
turned is as follows:
Felonies-W. II. Edwards. alias W.
R. Edwards; L. ID. Scott; Harry G.
Temple, alias II. T. Griffith; Benz
Earnshaw; Susan Mulvey; James r.
Bachman; Kitty Lyme; Isaac Griffin,
alias Isaac Githern; James Cunning
ham; Albert Crumbacker; Albert Wal
chill; James Woodward; VIM. Ward;
George Bachman.and Bernard Sheekey.
MisdemeaRors-E Miller, H. Bur
lery, Alice Bradford, Thomas Duff,
Joseph Cunningham, John G.. Kline,
Edward Dailer, Harry McNamee, Ada
Foster, Geo. c. Carroll, Lena Logan,
Ella Woods, Bessie Moore, Nellie War
ner. Len McGranahan, Kitty Lee,
John Kyne, John Noon, Geo.
Mayors, James Mix, Minnie
Shriver and Nina Reed, Florence
Stephens, Mary Jones, Clara Bates,
Daisey Dalzel, Doris Kelson, Pearl
Brooks, Fanny Sheppard, Nellie Frank
lin, Joseph Chambers, Charles Butler,
Geo. Watson, Jacob Soles, Robert Null
door, L. D. Scott, and w. w. Rodgers
(two)
Not True Bilis.-W. S. Hand, felony;
Charles Morgan, misdemeanor; Nike
Condry and E. Arnet, felony; Porter
Grigsby, felony; Benz. EarRshaw, No.
2, felony.
TIE docket will be called Wednesday,
and the cases set for trial.