The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-06-25

Attorneys John ]. Murphy and John
j. Manning who have been appointed
by the court to defend Edward Ken
ney for the murder of John Healey,
applied to Judge Gunster. yesterday for
continuance until the September
term to give them an opportunity to
prepare their case and look up evi-
dencc. District Attorney Jones said
he did not have such lot of time to
prepare the commemorative side of
the case, but he did not want to in
sist upon a trial If the defendants
interests were damaged Judge Gun
ster continued it until September
Criminal court will be in session
next week also. Judge Durham, of
Laporte, Sullivan county, will assist
Judges Gunstor and Edwards. 1t will
be his first time in Scranton as trial
judge.
Crusader Traver was worsted in ev-
cry one of the eight cases he prose-
cuted yesterday. In three of them the
costs were saddled on him; in two
cases the costs were put on the Coun-
ty and three the defendants were i'm
posed with them. William Maxwell,
Thomas Morrison, Thomas L. Fagan,
Thomas f. Barrett and Julia Ayers,
Of CarbOndale, and Herman Graebner,
Fred Weichcl and Rose Kane. of the
South Side, were the ones tried.
COSTS ON TRAVER.
The costs were put on Traver in the
Maxwell, Kane and Pagan cases, on
the county in the Ayers and Graebner
cases, and on the defendants in the
Morrison, Weichel and Barrett cases.
Graebner acted as his own lawyer, and
he did not have fool for a client by
any means. Travcr had no one to COR
roborate him. Judge Edwards sug-
gested that the records of the internal
revenue office be brought into court to
prove whether or not the defendants
had taken out a revenue license.
George Dmyon was tried for at
Michael Rock, of DunmOre. Dimyon
is the man who was laid up at the
| Lackawanna hospital for several weeks
| with a broken arm and a badly bruised
scalp from the injuries he received at
| the hands Of the woman's husband.
1t was alleged that Dimyon was in
| the habit of visiting the Rocks. and
one Sunday last month he went to
| tllfl llpuSt, lOulu the HuSDdtlu dD-
| sent, attempted to assault Mrs. Rock,
and upon her escaping his clutches he
| picked up the cradle containing an in
FAINT Rock and flung it out the door
| into the back yard.
The husband was only a short dis
| tance away, and i'm response to his
| wife's screams came back. broke a
| stick from the cradle and nearly ham
| mered the life out of Dimyon with it.
| The defense Was that Rock brutaIly
assaulted him without any provocation
| and set up the criminal assault charge
| to cover UP the other. The jury was
| out at adjournment.
BEACH CASE.
I The jury was out in the ease Of J..
! Brcsw!tz against Elizabeth Beach, the
! charge !'cing the breaking down of n
! line fence. They i've side 10y side n
! the upper part of the North End. bat
! do not dwell in harmony. MI; Brps-
Witz was never lacking 70" sharp
| answer to Mr.. Nosburg, wa repre-
sented the defendant. The case was
! before Judge Purdy.
F., Another fence line war was tried in
| No. before Judge Gunster. It was that
| in which Robert Judge was charged
| with assault and battery by Andrew II
| Devine. The case grew out of put
ting down post holes for a fence. The
parties are related and there was some
| pretty tall swearing done one side
or the other did not tell the truth. They
| live in CarbOndale. The jury was out
at adjournment, So was the jury in
the assault and battery case of Mary
Harmon against John McCabe and in
the same kind of a case of II. NJ. Kyle
against Patrick Larkin.
| Winifred Reap and Bridget Quinn
two South Side women, were litigants
in an assault and battery case. Tc
hear their story it would he impossible
] to tell which of the two was beaten
The costs were equally divided between
them. Sally Moore was charged by
Nary Grady with being a common
sCold. Sally will pay two-thirds os the
costs and Mary the remainder.
Arthur Luce was acquitted of beat
ing Tailor Roberts. The costs wei,