The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-11-22

Ia UfnerAl h94atQne Court thin morning
u wss Vas sitsed e
bail In tho sum of $4,000. John MMy. John
Doordan and james GsJley are his bondss
men.
Ipe Oyer and Terminer Court jurors
EsIs 1 lsn I. re antl! x Herrow morning.
Tho ease against q. *, Drake for selling
goods under false pretences. waa upon
motion Of William +, Lyman. continued
until the February term OF court y. q.
Stldham lie his bondsman.
Attorney General White withdrew from
tbs grand jury the bill against David
Grinnage. who Is suspected OF numbering
bis great grandmother. Harriet Lewis. at
Glasgow.
Tho case was then continued until the
February term when the evidence will be
again submitted to tho grand Jury. tbs
bill against. Francis NJ. King was also
withdrawn. This iinahed their work and
they vera discharged from any further
attendance 1t this torn after instruction
from the court 10 make a thorough tu-
the next term.
Waiter Nicholson was then placed on.
trial for driving from tho stable Of Geo.
| q. Whiteman q team beinnglng to s. D.
Il Townsend On October g. Wnlter Hayes
appeared Tor the prisoner and Attorney
General White c2ndneted tho prosecution.
After the jury was drawn MIR. Whitsmau
the team at the Nicholson home.
Mr.. Townsend did not give Nicholson
| permission to use tho tenn.
Sir. Hayes askod for an acquittai Oh the
oner by Mr.. whiIeman. also that Nichols
son wds so drunk at ire time that he did
not know what he was doing.
Nicholson took the stand. He gave his
residenee as Rethel township. Delaware
| county. Pa. while hero he became tntox.
icated and know nothing until the even.
Ing OF the day when he found ehlimaslf
near Perry's Tavern on tho Concord Pike.
| Out OF $lS SO he had but ~ cents.
He testified to assisting the officers In
finding the team and driving to this city
with hieasrs. Whiteman and Thomas. His
testimony was corroborated by bis
m other.
She thought her son was weak minded.
| number Of witnesses testified to chs
I prisoners previous good character.
Mr.. Hayes then addressed the Jury.
| Offering drunkenness as an excuse Tor the
| crime. The jury then returned o verdict
OF not guilty. and the prlsoner was dis
charged.
nUNTLEy's ALLEGATION
The case OF Clarence Huntley. who Is
| indicted for breaking into tile shoe stores
OF p. j. 0Iiara and James Menrns on
| April and 4, added spice to the morn
ipga session. Josiah Marvll represented
MIR. O'Hara swore to the robbary aud
that he had missed small sum, of.
| money. ~ IL a.
prisoner came to her house between and
| O'Clock on the morning of April a and
| she allowed him to stay ut the house He
| voluntarily told her that he and another
young man had robbed three places dur.
HOPKINS and James Mearns' stores, At
| OHara's they got SO cents.
He boasted OF tho work and told her TO-
watch the papers.
| At this point Mr.. Marvl asked Mrs. Tat.
| nall II Huntley had not lived with her as
| her husband.
She became indignant and denying it
appealed to the court to protect her from
| such questions.
| for The defense said he desired to prove
that Mrs. Tatnall held malice against the
| prisoner
| He obtained from her an ad ission that
she had prosecuted him on previous
occasion on the charge OF larceny. She
denied having threatened the prisoner.
Detective M:Eey swore to hearing tho
confession made to Mrs. TatnalI by the
| prisoner.
Edward TatnalI, son of Mrs. Tatnali
| swore that ne heard Huntley confess that
| he robbed the stores.
| Mr. Maryll tnen addressed the jury
| saying he would show mat there was ma
| lice on the part OF Mrs. Tatnail.
| Huntley was then sworn. For the great
| err part OF tho time previous to his arrest
| he lived with Mrs. Tatnall, who. he atleg-
| cd, supported him. He gave his age a.
u. lie denied moklng the confession to
| her. They had words and he was ordered
| TO leave. but he did not lie said that he
and Mira Iatnall were In the habit of
| drinking together.
Mrs, Alico Huntiey. mother of the pris.
oner, said her son spent nearly all his
time at the Tatnall home, but ON the hight
| OF the robbery was at his home. She
thought her soc wgs not guilty, and IL
wns case OF persecution. Court recessed
after she left the stand.
/ Mfs. Tatnall and Mrs. Huntley utter
| ward had words In the witness room.