The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-15
TAILOR GREAVES
FOUND GUILTY
Fired Two Shots Into D.. J. r. Newton S
Shoulder on March 28.
RECOMMENDED To MERCY or COURT
Jurors Deiiberated a Long Time on
to Acquit Him. Out Of sympathy for
His Wife aud Famiiy..Hc Will BE
Sentenced Saturday..Othcr Cases
Heard Before Judge Archibald.

w. III. Greaves was tried yesterday
and found guilty of feloniously wound
ing DR.. j. X. Newton, but the jury rec
commended him to the mercy of the
court. He will be sentenced Saturday.
Greaves has been in Jail the greater
part of the time since March ~ last.
the night of the shooting. He fired
two shots at the doctor and they took
effect in the right shoulder. In a few
days he was out of danger. as the
wounds We're not serious ones.
The would-be murderer was caught
by Patrolman Saul and was in Jail for
several weeks until Michael Gibbons
Of Minooka. bailed him out. After
awhile Mr.. Gibbons surrendered him,
and then William STEELE went his BAIL
but also surrendered him in a few
weeks.
Mrs. GreaveS and her two small chill
dren sat beside the prisoner. and it
was a pitiable group to gaze upon. The
jury had been selected and sworn the
day before and when court convened at
! o'clock, District Attorney John X.
Jones made the opening address To the
jury. John +. Scragg was attorney
for Greaves.
STORY OF THE SHOOTING.
The evidence on the part of the COM
monwealth was that DIR. Newton and
Grea> es, who is a tailor. had rooms on
the second floor on the corner of Penn
, avenue and Spruce street. The door
of the doctors Office was directly op-
poSite the tailor shop, and complaints
were made by the doctors patients that
Greavcs was in the habit of carrying
beer into the building and getting in
ioXicated very frequently.
As some Of the doctors patients
stopped coming To his office because
they did not want to run UP against
the tailor with his beer pail, the doctor
complained to the landlord, who order
! ed the tailor either to quit the building
or change his habits. He decided to get
another place. but he called at the doe
tors office to quarrel before leaving.
and as he was intoxicated he did not
| find the doctor ready to hold any con-
versation with him. AS the doctor was
moving away Greaves fired two shots
at him.
| DIR. II. u. Gardner. who attended DR..
| Newton at the Lackawanna hospital.
testified that the wounds We're not dan
gcrous ones. The bullets entered the
shoulder. where they are now imbedded,
| giving their bearer no trouble whatso-
! ever.
The defense was weak. Ii was tn the
| effect that the tailor was being pursued
| by the doctor and the former picked up
a revolver that had been taken from
a suit of clothes brought to the shop
| to be cleaned. and that he just pointed
the weapon to scare the doctor and de-
ter him from laying hands on him, and
that in the excitement the pistol, which
| was Il self-acting one. exploded.
JURORS WE'RE SYMPATHETIC.
District Attorney Jones didn't leave
much of the story together when he
got through cross-eXamining Greaves.
The charge of Judge Archibald was fin
ished at noon and the jury retired but
did not bring in a verdict until nearly
adjourning time in the afternoon
Scme of the jurors were inclined
through sympathy for the defendants
wife and two young children to acquit
him. considering that he has been a
long time in Jail now, and the doctor Is
all right again.
George Traub, the 19-year-old Wes
Side youth who confessed haNlns
stolen a watch from w. II. Wright
jewelry store, was called up for sen
tence and Judge Archibald handed
down an order sending Traub to tn,
Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon
for three years.
Mary Mehalko. of PriceburC. was
tried for assault and battery ON nub
lie officer and obstructing the execu
ton of a legal process. She was de-
Tended by Judge stanton and the com
monwealth was represented by Distric
Attorney Jones. assisted by AttOrne!
Charles f.. Oliver. Henry Dierks wa'
the prosecutor. He had warrant fo
man in the house where Mrs. Ne
| l,. 90,
it he claims that she interfered will
the arrest and assaulted him. Th
jury was out deliberating upon a YER
diet at adjournment.
BROKE A WINDOW.
John II. Thomas. of Olyphant wa
called To answer the charge of break
ing window in the front of a buildin!
owned by a. Schultz. Il clothier. Thorn
as was represented by Attorney JOIN
T.. Martin. Schultz was put on tn
stand. and after he told that the win
dow was in his clothing store that wa
an end to the case.
This was a peculiar case. ThOma
was caught in the actsof smashing il
the window with stone, and he wa
arrested then and there: but as loni
az it was not dwelling house h
| could not be prosecuted i'm crimina
w
it necessary that a building must b
a dwelling house before any damag
done in the way of malicious mischie
can he set up as a criminal offense. |
a person takes a notion to go dow
| LackaWanna avenue and send a cob
blestone through one of the windows q
any of the business places along it. II
is only responsible for civil damages
| When the indictment was drawn u
Schultz told the district attorney h
was living i'm the house
Daniel Farrell. of Throop. was pu
on trial for stealing geese from Cath
crime Kallata. Mr.. Jones representc
the commonwealth. and Attorney NJ. j
Walsh the defendant. There was no
enough of evidence to convict and
verdict of not guilty was directed.
QUESTION OF VERACITy.
Frederick NJ. Decker. of the Yves
on Thomas Phillips. Mr.. Jones wa
| for the commonwealth and Attorne
! George $. Horn for the defendant
Decker's father and Phillips occup
the same building. the former as
blacksmith. and the latter as q wheel
wright. A farmer from the back roa
came i'm one day and had some repair
made on his wagon. Phillips charge
dollar for the part of the work h
did and that brought on dispute be
tween him and young Decker. He sal
, the result of it was that Decker struc
him a hard blow i'm the face.
Two witnesses ga He'd by tho nrocac,,