The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-21
CUSSIE HAD TO co TO JAIL
She Had No Money to Pay the Costs
in the Case Against Her.
VERDlCTS IN HENSLEY CASES
They Declare Him Not Guilty but lie VIII
Have to Pay the Costs had Work OF
Mischievous Miuooka Boys.
Other Cases Heard.

Philip Hensley paid visit to Bingham
ton with Miss Alice Robinson and there
they were married. The bride was the
daughter OF well-to-do tradespeople IN
Englan and had been IN this country
only few years. She lived with Hens
ley only short time and since then has
been leading u lively existence in this
city and Wilkes Barre. She now makes
Scranton her place of abode.
Some time after Hensley and his wife
separated he met Miss Gussle Regal.
pretty young Italian girl who resided
at Dunmore. She became very much
attached to him and last fall they were
married. When securing the license
Hensley swore he was single man and
Gussle averred that She was 90, when
as a matter of fact she was only 10.
After their marriage, Miss Regalfs
brother had Hensley indicted for big
amy. adultery and perjury. Gusse
was also indicted for perjury I'm falsely
swearing TO her age. Last spring
Hensley was tried and convicted Of
bigamy, and is now serving Il years
Imprisonment in the county Jail for his
offense.
NcTOlStS VI Not 1dkeU.
The charges of adultery and perjury
We're still on the list against Hensley
and yesterday he was brought before
the court to have the cases disposed.
AS he was convicted of bigamy, the
charge of adultery could not be pressed
for trial, and in the charge of perjury
District Attorney Jones agreed to al
low Il verdict of not guilty to be taken
believing that Hensley had been sufti-
GENTLY punished. In both cases, there
fore. verdicts OF not guilty were taken
and the costs imposed on Hensley.
Miss Regali. who left her home in
Dunmore after her marriage to Hensley
and now resides in this city, was then
called TO answer the charge of perjury
against her. 1t was explained that her
mother told her she was 90 and that
she supposed that was her age at the
time the affidavit was made. On this
showing a verdict of not guilty was
taken. but Miss Regali was directed to
pay the costs. She could not do so and
went TO Jail.
Since Hensley was committed to the
| county jail he has begun proceedings
TO secure divorce from his wife. Alice
Robihson-HenSley. on the statutory
ground alleging that she has been an
inmate Of disreputable resorts in this
city and Wilkes-Barre.
Belonged In the civil Court.
CARLY Cincavitch, Peter Bronsconski
and Peter Shimkavitch were arraigned
before Judge Gunster. charged with
breaking down the fence of John Duffy.
of Greenwood. 1t appeared from the
testimony of the prosecutor that the
trouble was really dispute over line
fence and Judge Gunster directed the
jury to return u verdict OF not guilty,
saying that common pleas court was
the proper place to try the issue.
Thomas LOTUS pleaded guilty To
charges Of assault and battery and ag-
gravated assault and battery. pre-
ferred by Constable Patrick Roach, Of
the Seventh ward. and was allowed to
go on paying the costs In each case.
Michael Lavelle. John Lavelle and
George Callahan Were tried on an in
dietment charging riot. Special officer
George Starner, Of the West Side. be-
ing the prosecutor The allegation was
that the defendants on September 4.
1893, fought with and elected several
negroes from 4 West Side electric car
and torrori2ed and frightened the other
passengers. The defendants said that
the negroes We're playing tag" in the
car and making themselves generally
obnoxious and that they simply insist
ed on them keeping quiet or leaving the
car. The colored men preferred to
leave the car. 1t was denied that they
had in any way acted in boisterous
or lawless manner. At 3 o'clock the
jury went out to deliberate on the case
and had not agreed upon a verdict
when court adjourned
Nickel.in. the. Slot Machine Men.
Yesterday morning after court con-
vened the jury in the case of Albert
Hammond and Sterling Bruce. charged
with stealing money out of a nickel-in-
the-slot machine at the station of
the Central Railroad of New Jersey, re-
turned u verdict Of guilty.
Daniel Shay. Patrick Maloney and
Thomas Brennan, three mischievous
Minooka boys, were tried before Judge
Gunster, charged with assault and bat
terry on John Hartnell. The offense
two weeks after the IIartnell boy ar
rived in the country. On the day in
question the accused gave him pipe
to smoke. telling him 1t contained to-
bacco. Instead it was filled with pow
der, and when he began to smoke the
powder exploded and badly burned his
face and almost destroyed the sight of
his eyes. His injuries confined him to
the house for about a week. All of the
testimony for the prosecution had not
been heard when court adjourned.
In the case of the commonwealth
against John Schivak, charged with
assault and battery by Abraham
Glaier verdict Of not guilty was
taken and the costs placed on the pros
ecution. Similar action was taken in
the case of Simon Mlgln, assault and
battery. Rosa Glaier. prosecutrix.
Charles Pruce. Adam Peredinck. An
drew Miller and John Milisky were ar
raigned to answer Il charge of assault
and battery preferred by George De-
junes. The trouble occurred at the
Northwest colliery, above Carbondale,
last September.
Sny They Arc Not the Ones.
The trouble occurred at a wedding,
1t being charged that the defendants.
to vary the monotony of the ordinary
wedding festivities, gave the prosecu-
tor q severe beating. On the part of the
defendants II Is alleged that they are
not the persons who did the beating.
and that it was other persons In the
crowd who made the assault. The
case was given to the jury at 4:15.
The trial of Bernard Koerner who,
with his son, Henry Koerner, was in
dicted for feloniously wounding Will
lam Miller on the Roaring brook bridge
leading to the South Side on the night
of Nov H. 1894 was resumed before