The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-25
ARGUED LAW POINTS
FIVE WEARY HOURS
Won Storch Case Is Now Being Given to
the Jury.
Mr.. scRAGd MAKES FIRST SPEECH
Doings Of the Day in Criminal Court.
Bramin Green Returned Not Guilty,
After Making Novel Defense.
Burke Keeicy Mayhem Case Is
settled - Interesting swearing
Match in a Suit Over Pigeons.
Balls Forfeited.

From 3 o'clock yesterday morning
until $3.50 In the afternoon the attorneys
In the Won Storch case wrangled before
Judge Archibald over the big list OF
law points submitted by either side.
Then the speechmaking to the jury
was begun, Mr.. Scragg for the plain
tiff speaking first. He consumed the
remaining part of the day and will take
another hour this morning to finish. He
will be followed by Mr.. Kelly and Judge
Jessup for the defense, and then Major
Warren will make the closing argument
for the plaintiff. Barring unforeseen
Interruptions the case will go to the
jury Saturday morning.
Criminal court had another big day.
an unusual large number of cases be-
ing disposed of. The jury in the
Bramin Green case believed the testi-
mony of the doctors that the plaintiff
was incapable of the crime with which
14-year-od Maggie A. Jones charged
him and after half an hours delibera-
tion returned a verdict of not guilty.
The much talked OF mayhem case
against NJ. Z. Keeley was called in the
main court room, but as the prosecutor,
James ]. Burke, did not appear, YER
dict of not guilty was taken. 1t was
reported that the case was settled upon
the payment of $4G0.
COMPLICATED PIGEON CASE.
Last November Henry winwood lost
thirty-five carrier pigeons. One day
in october following he was in the vi
cinity of the Sloan mine and discov-
cred a shooting match in progress, in
which Stephen Soloski, James Rogers
nd
pants. One of the birds that flew from
the trap looked familiar to him and go
ing over to the basket where the other
birds were kept he made an examina-
tion. He positively, he says, recogniz-
ed two of the pigeons as those stolen
from him the previous month and
forthwith laid claim to them. Rogers
secuted the idea that the birds belong
ed to anybody but himself and to prove
his assertion agreed to liberate the two
birds and let them decide where they
belonged.
In court yesterday Rogers swore that
the birds flew to his coop and exhibited
them to the Judge and jury to prove it.
Winwood swore that they flew to his
coop and like Rogers exhibited them in
substantiation of his assertion. Win
wood also added that eleven other birds
which had been stolen came home the
same day. The jury was at loss to
tell which was telling the true story
and returned a verdict of not guilty.
Attorney George Beale assisted the
commonwealth and w. r. Lewis ap-
peared for the defense.
Anna Felona was returned not guilty
of receiving stolen goods. as charged
by Chief Robling. She is a sister of
Lizzie Pietro, the little Italian flower
girl caught picking pockets in the
Leader last winter Anthony MUIR
chirki. charged by John Bogoski with
larceny and receiving, escaped through
the failure of the prosecutor to ap-
pear.
Joseph Beltromis, charged with GRIM
inal assault upon Catherine Kownes,
of Providence, was found not guilty,
the jury evidently being moved to this
| action upon it's being shown that there
was four or five people In the house
when the crime is alleged to have been
committed.