The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-02-05
GENERAL SES-
SONS COURT
A Batch Of Offenders Before Tha
Tribunal Yesterday Afternoon
Fare Badly,

A ueh6ral SESSIONS Court jury yesLerubJ
| afternoon heard the charge against
| Alfonzo Davis, the middle aged white
man. for stealing Isaac g. Sutton's herse
on December 18th Mr. Sutton told ol
| missing his horse; Henry Patterson saw
| him in this city trying to sell it and special
| Officer Davidson related his bargain for
| the purchase Of the animal from the pris-
| oner the same as they did at the morning
session.
Davis went on the stand and acknowl.
edged have taken the horse but with the
intention of returning it, The jury re-
turned verdict of guilty after fifteen
minutes deliberation. He received sen
tence of twenty lashes and two years i'm.
prisonment.
Another jury was drawn to try the case
OF assault and battery against Isaac Han
dy II young colored man. George Ii.
Wood, another colored man. as the prose.
cutting witness and told of meeting Handy
at Christiana on the night of January .;
the night Frank Thomas, Miss Carrie II.
Balls assailant was captured and CON
demned him for assisting in the capture
of Thomas. Blows followed and the
witness was badly beaten.
James McAlister, a young whito man
also gave testimony against the prisoner.
Handy called Joseph Wood, Henry Black
and Lewis Walter who helped the case but
little, then Isaac expressed desire to
speak in his own defense but changed his
mind after getting on the stand. The jury
retired without argument or charge ana
returned verdict Of guilty with recon-
mendation for mercy. The sentence was
$40 and costs and three months imprlson'
ment.
Waiter Mcbride, the colored man, who
was found guilty of having obtained pigs
nnhpr n
: Of one months imprisonment. The light
sentence was occasioned by the fact of the
offense being his first and because OF his
age.
KELLEY GOES FREE.
John Kelley, tho New Castle man who
wa, indicted for having used female
child under age for immoral purposes es-
capped punishment because Of a lack of
evidence The state was in possession of
only Emma Connor's dying statement
that the prisoner had committed the act
which ended in her death. As such was
not admissible in IL court of law MIR.
Cooper with great reluctance asked for a
nollo prosequi, which the court allowed.
AYoUNG woMAN's ORDEAL.
A Jury was drawn to try the case Of as
sault with intent to commit rape against
Roland r. Moulton. Miss Sarah Palmer,
the concly young white woman assaulted
related the shocking story which Is toe
recent to need repetition. Franklin X.
Brockson, counsel for the prisoner, sought
to break down the young woman's story
but was unsuccessful.
Moulton took the stand. In his state
ment he did not deny the crime, hut Of
fered an excuse for il. Charles Green,
Joseph Dawson, Matthew Weldin were
called and testified to Moulton's good
character.
The election cases were sent to the grand
jury yesterday. So far no true bills have
been found, but the charges against Nell
Dougherty and Charles OConnor were
ignored.
~ have been trying DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup, and l am well pleased with it. My
son had the whooping cough and q bad
cold followed. l tried your DR. Bulls
Cough Syrup and in three nights he was
Ter. Moses Yerby, Lancaster Court
House Va"