The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-10
CROOKS GET SIX YEARS
Burglars Receive a Dose Of LackaWanna
County Justice.
SENTENCED BY JUDGE EDWARDS

Judge Lynch. of Luzerne, Holding
Court in No. 2-verdcts of Con-
viction Rendered Against Robert
Robinson, John M. Burke and
Thomas Cavanaugh-Case of Ag-
gravated Assault and Battery Against
Fred Peck.
The two crooks. George Smith and
Frederick Cotton, who were arraigned
on the charge Of burglarizing the resi-
dence of F. II. Connell, were found
guilty and when court opened yester-
day morning the verdict was an
nounced and Judge Edwards ordered
the prisoners to be brought before the
bar for sentence. The penalty Of the
court was that each pay fiue of $500,
costs OF court, and serve six years at
hard labor in separate and solitary con-
finement at the Eastern Penitentiary in
Philadelphia.
James Foy, who plead guilty to steal
ing chickens from the hennery of Ber-
nard McGreevy, of Chinchilla, was
sentenced to pay fine of $1O0, restore
the value Of the stolen property and
spend six months at the county Jail
Robert Robinson was found guilty Of
immoral conduct and aquitted of the
two other serious charges against him.
and John M. Burke, of Dickson, was
convicted Of keeping tippling house.
Both will be sentenced on Saturday
Thomas Jordan was acquitted OF
assault and battery on Frank Heffron
and the costs of court were equally de-
vided between prosecutor and defen-
dant.
He SLAPPED HIS wIFE's FACE.
Judge Lynch, of Wilkes Barre. was
presiding magistrate in court room No.
2 The first case called was an assault
and battery offence, placing Thomas
Cavanaugb, of Archibald. in the role OF
defendant and his wife Hannah was
prosecutor.
Mrs. Cavanaugh is handsome young
woman of spirited temper and was
married to her liege lord two years ago
One morning last April while at din
ner she furnished desert for the meal
in the shape Of collection Of rather
pointed epithets against the landlord.
Her husband told her shut up, but she
paid no heed to him. and at last he
threatened to slap her face If sne didn't.
She armed herself with the frying pan
and defied him, and the result was an
encounter that ended in her defeat
The jury found him guilty.
Ezeda Petrack Is Polander and re-
sides in Green Ridge. One evening,
with few companions, he paid his re-
spects to the bartenders of several sa-
looms in the central city. Mrs. Anna
Paskas alleged that Petrack kicked and
assaulted her -year-old son who was
playing in the street. Her daughter
Mary, 10 years Of age, told the same
story and proved to be bright wit
ness. Judge Lynch's charge leaned to-
wards the defense, and the jury, after
being out half hour. returned with a
verdict Of acquittal. but placed one.
half the costs on EACH
A sHoEMAKER'S TROUBLES.
Fifteen minutes before adjournment
Attorney Joseph O'Brien, assisting Mr..
O'Neill for the commonwealth, in
court room No. 2 opened the case OF
aggravated assault and battery against t
Frederick K Peck, jr., prosecuted by
julius Betzold Attorney George S.
Horn represented the defendant. The
prosecutor is an old man and is a shoe
maker by trade He lives at the foot
Of the mountain on the outskirts of the
Twenty-first ward, and his shop is on
the West Side.
On May II he was returning home al
10 o'clock he met Peck, a young mar
who does not appear to be able to as.
sault anybody but an old man. Late
the plaintiff was ovsrtaken near tn,
Sloan Patch. in a lonesome spot By
Peck, whom he alleges murderouslJ
assaulted him.
DR.. franklin Douglass, of Jackson
street, who attended the injured shoe
maker, described his condition. Ac
cording to his testimony, the shoemak
er's head was mass of cuts and bruise
and his back and chest were discolore,
from blows. Upon cross examination
Dr. Douglass admitted that the condi
ton Of Bstzold might become possibl
through falls received from being help
, lessly drunk, With the ending of tn
. doctors testimony court adjourned.
ALL ABOUT PLANK
Before Judge Edwards in No. I coul
! room the case Of William R. Shedd
> prosecutor. against George S Root
for assault and battery, began befor
noon and was given to the jury at
Q o'clock. Both men were employed q
(: the Rockingham theater when tina
l structure was in course of completion
Shedd was stereo relief finisher an
had large plank that Rooty wanted
and wanted 80 bad that he used fore
to possess himself Of 1t. The jury ha
not agreed on verdict when court az
journed.
, The case Of Michael Augustin againl
a Jacob Hirshe was called. but the pros