The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-20
CADDEN ENTERED
A PLEA OF GUILTY
Was One Of the Young Men Who Burg.
larized howley Brothers Store.
HUGH J. RUSH WILL 60 TO TRIAL
Eugene HUFF and Benjamin Wilson
Returned Not Guilty of Stealing the
Personal Property Of william ii.
Johnson, Of the Oriental Club.
Adam Sadlusky and Wife Tried
for Assauiting Peter Chapel.

The second and last week of criminal
court began yesterday morning. Judge
Edwards is presiding.
Michael Cadden, of the West Side.
who with another young man. Hugh
| j. Rush, was caught in the act of bur
glarizing Howley Bros hardware store
On Penn avenue. at an early hour of the
| morning on July u last. was called for
trial and he had his mind made up To
| acknowledge his guilt He will be SEN
| fenced Saturday. Rush will be tried
| during the week. He was found in an
| outbuildng on the premises, and hopes
| to be able to prove that he was drunk
and wandered in there. fell asleep and
| had nothing at all to do with the bur
Slary.
Edward Kolsky. of Simpson. was put
| ON trial To answer the charge of steal
| ing a mine drill from Thomas Crogan,
| of that place. The evidence was not
sufficient to convict and Il verdict of
not guilty was returned.
William O'Hara. of Dunmorc. was
called to answer the charge of being
| the father of Mary O'NeilIs child. The
| proSecutriX was at one time an inmate
of the insane department of the Hill
| side home and her mind is not very
strong. She failed to show beyond
reasonable doubt that O'Hara was the
| found him guilty only of unlawful con-
| duct.
HUFF AND WILSON ESCAPE.
Eugene Huff and Benjamin Wilson.
, two gentlemen of color, We're put on
| trial charged with loOting the Oriental
club house of William II. Johnson in
Oakford court Mr.. johnson went
away on a vacation in the early part
of the summer and left Wilson and HUFF
| in charge of the club. When he came
| back his clothes. raZors, mandolin, re-
| volver and jug of whiskey We're gone.
| He had very large wardrobe and a
very loud one. and his loss altogether
amounted to nearly 5000. The goods
were afterwards recovered. One of the
| thieves had shipped them to North
Carolina. There was not a strong de-
sire. apparently, on the part of the
| prosecutor to prosecute and the jury
returned both defendants not guilty.
Fred Herman, of First street, was
| tried for stealing $l1 out of Jacob Kie-
! fer's trunk. The only evidence to at
! tach the crime to him was that about
| the time the money disappeared Her.
man also vanished and was careful to
| keep out of sight for three or four days.
| The jury found him not guilty.
Adam Sadluskey and his wife Mary
| were tried for beating Peter Chappef
| All three live in what is Familiarity
! known as Jones Row." on Price street,
| West Side. Some time ago they had
| fight and Mrs. Chapel was beaten. The
| case came to court and Sadluskey was
| convicted. He got off easy however
and since then bad blood has existed
| They Quarreled over the other case and
| Mrs. Saduskey this time took hand
| in to help her husband. The jury was
out at adjournment deliberating upon
| verdict.
SEVENTH WARD CASE.
The last case of the day was one in
| which Martin LOTUS is Defendant ana
| Mrs. Bridget Kelley is prosecutriX. At
| torney Joseph OBrien and District At
| torney John X. Jones represent the
commonwealth and Attorneys Il. w.
| Thayer and NJ. j. Walsh are for the
| defendant.
The Loftuses and Kelleys live in a
double house in the Seventh ward. 1t
is owned by the Lackawanna Iron and
Coal company. The rear part is occu-
pied by LOTUS. He complained that
| Mrs. Kelley used to take the carpets
out on the line under his window and
beat them until the dust came into his
| kitchen and covered the furniture an
| inch deeD. To stop II he went out on
June ] last to sink a few postholes and
put down posts to prevent her from
| having the line where it was.
He had sunk the first hole and had
gone around the corner of the house
for post when Mrs. Kelley's 15-year-
old boy, Johnny, came along, took the
| spade and was filling up the hole. Lof-
tus came upon him unawares and
trouble resulted in which Mrs. Kelley
| alleges she was severely bruised with
a shovel in the hands of Lotus. The
defense opened at AIS and the case will
be resumed this morning. 1t was At
tOrney Thayer's first appearance in a
| criminal case. and he acquitted him
self with ability and credit.