The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-09
LITTLE MARGARET KLINE.

ter, Margaret Kline. The crime is al
legged to have occurred July u last.
Both parties live in the same house on
Cedar avenue. Drier lives in the up
per portion of the house and the little
girls folks on the ground floor. On the
day in question it is alleged that both
families with the exception of Drier,
his 9-year-old daughter and the Kline
girl, We're away from home. Drier
called the Kline girl to his apartments
and sent her for beer. When she re-
turned he induced her to go to his
room on the promise of giving her 10
cents and kept her locked in there for
half an hour. A few days later she
told her mother what had happened
and she summoned Drs. Longstreet and
Kolb to attend the child.
After the girl and her mother had told
their story the two doctors took the
stand and testified that the worst in
dignity the girl had suffered of any at
all was an assault
Drier took the stand during the af-
ternoon and gave his version of the af-
fair. He said he was kept to his bed
that day by sore feet. The two chill
dren, the Kline girl and his own daugh-
ter, who We're playing about the house
ran into his room. They We're making
so much noise that he could not sleep
and somewhat angrily drove them out
That is all he did, he claims. His lit
tie daughter was put on the stand and
corroborated him in every particular.
LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE.
Mrs. Stein, who lives in the same
tenement with the Driers and Millers
testified that Mrs. Miller told her she
was going to have Drier arrested be-
cause his wife talked sassy" to her
She also said that Mr.. Miller admitted
to her that her daughter was incorrig-
ible and she could do nothing with her
| on another occasion Mrs. Miller said
to her that she would have Drier taken
before an alderman anyhow as it
| wouldn't cost anything. Other wit
| nesses We're called to show further
| that the prosecutrix was actuated by
spite and a number We're called to tes-
! tify to Drier's good character.
| Judge Gunster instructed the jury
that it could not find Drier guilty of
| outraging the girl and at the most
could only return him for assault and
battery. He remarked during his
charge that 1t was very easy to bring
a charge of this kind against any man
and that no matter how good his char
| acter might be and though he might
be perfectly innocent he might have
a difficult time disproving the charge.
| He virtually advised the jury to ac-
quit Drier, The verdict will be rem
| dered this morning.
The most interesting case of the day
was that of William Allspaugh against
Timothy McNultv, tried before Judge
| Edwards in court room No. 2. The al
| legation of the ulaintiff was that Nc
| Nulty, with one John Campbell, who
has skipped his bail, broke into the
| defendants barn April %, 1895, and
stole sixty valuable pigeons, the most
of them carriers of great value. All
| the parties live on, the West Side
| When Allspaugh missed his pigeons he
Immediately began a search, and the
in the possession Of Sim Davis, the
well known wing shot, Davis told that
he bought them from Campbell and
McNulty, Allspaugh forthwith got out
warrants for their arrest, but the ac-
cused got wind of their impending ar
rest and skipped out.
THEY RETURNED RECENTLY.
They returned a few months ago
thinking the affair had blown over
but time had not assuaged Allspaugh's
grief at the loss of his pets, nor soft
ened his resentment towards the de-
spoilers of his pigeon loft. They were
! taken into custody, but managed tc