The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-12
NUMBER OF Gases heard
Frank Bruner Convicted Of Aggravated
Assault and Battery.
FRANK MORROW PLEADS GUILTY
lie VIII Be Sentenced Saturday for Shoot
ing Constable Dougher, of Archibald.
Hair Pulling Match at Little Eng
land Ventilated in Court.

NO. l, Wnlcn was on tllal MONDAY was
finished soon after court opened yester-
day morning and the jury returned late
in the afternoon with a verdict acquit-
ting him of felonious wounding and
carrying concealed weapons, but find
ing him guilty on the charge of ag-
gravated assault and battery.
Frank Morrow, of Archibald, charged
with burglary, larceny and receiving,
and aggravated assault and battery,
was called for trial before Judge Ed
wards. Morrow is the desperate youth
who was caught in the act of burglariz-
ing store in Archibald last summer,
and when Constable Dougher attempted
to arrest him, fired and struck the con-
stable with a bullet from his revolver.
The constable to this day carries a
bullet in his side. Morrow escaped to
New York and made a desperate at
tempt to escape from two policemen
there who tried to arrest him., He
kicked one of them in the stomach,
knocking him down stairs, broke away
from the other officer and fled to the
roof of the building, but was finally
captured Sheriff Fahey went to New
York and brought him back to the
county Jail.
Morrow Pleads Guilty.
When his case was about to go to
| trial Morrow had no counsel and court
| assigned Attorney George w. Beale to
defend him. Morrow, after a short
consultation with his counsel, plead
guilty to aggravated assault and bat
| terry. He will be sentenced on Satur-
| day. The next case before Ju, re Ed
wards was another of those exasperat-
ingly trivial ones and the verdict ought
to have been that Of the imposition Of
Thoman and A. Walchesky were
charged by Robert Ditmore with steal
| ing pool balls. There was no evidence
to convict and the jury went out, but
had not returned with verdict when
court adjourned.
The same jury was again sworn to
try John Moshnock on two charges;
malicious mischief and carrying con-
cealed weapons. Michael Colish was
the prosecutor. Attorney A. w. Bert
holf assisted District Attorney Kelly
in the prosecution, and II. L. Taylor
represented the defendant. One Sun
day,"a year ago last August, Moshnock
observed the Lords day by filling him
self up with Winton whisky. Both
parties live in that borough. About II
O'Clock that night the defendant round
ed up in front of Colish's house armed
with a revolver and began to disport
himself by firing shots promlscuously
Asleep on the StoOp.
The prosecutor was asleep on the
front stoop of the house and one of the
bullets imbedded itself in the window
sash few feet above his head, arous
ing him from his slumber When h(
went on the witness stand Judge Ed
wards asked him if he could talk Eng
lish and he shook his head with &
sorry shake.
The defence was that fight was ir
progress outside Colish's house, the
defendant was being assaulted, and ht
fired the shot to protect himself. An
tonic Luenzo was included in the in
dictment as an accessory. The jury
retired to deliberate upon a verdict {
few minutes before court adjourned.
In court room No. 2, before Judge
Albright, the first case called was onC
of assault and battery in which three
women We're involved. Mrs. Mary
Fuery and Mrs. Lena Decker were thu
defendants and Mrs. Teresa Jones tn,
prosecutriX. They are neighbors ant
live in Little England" in the Tentf
ward. The two defendants are sisters
The allegation of the commonwealth
is that on June 6 the prosecutrlX, whC
then rented half of the house in which
Mrs. Fuero lived, was coming dowr
stairs and shouting "Robberv' ant
"Thief!' at the top of her voice
When she reached the hallway, tn,
prosecutriX looked out from her room
and Mrs. Fuery caught her by tn,
throat and pummeled her with he
fists. The other defendant, Mrs
Decker, came over to assist in the as
sault.