The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-03

pectcd, viii BE Tried Today.
Various Cases Disposed ofin Crim-
inai Court--The Tramp Marksmen
Sent to County JGil.
Pleas of guilty were yesterday entered
by Mrs. George Wescott, Mrs. I'll
len Randall. Mrs. Fannie Gritiths
and Mrs. Evan Thomas, four OF
the seven women indicted for
shoplifting. There were three charg-
rs against Mrs. Randall, GOLD
smiths Bazaar, Hyde Park Ia
zaar and Globe Warehouse being the
places she is accused of having taken
articles from. she confessed to the
Globe Warehouse stealing, and the
other charges were dismissed. Mrs.
Wescott had but one charge against
her, that preferred by Jonas Long
Sons. The only accusation against
Mrs. Grifiths was the taking of silk
waist from Jonas Longs Sons store.
William Welker. Goldsmith's Bazaar
and the Globe Warehouse preferred
charges against Mrs Evan Thomas.
She pleaded guilty OF the Globe Ware
house theft and the other two cases
We're withdrawn. Sentence will be inn
posed Saturday.
The trials Of Mrs. Susan Bos-
ton. charged With taking goods
from clemens, Ferber OMal-
ley. and Of Mrs. Maggie Thomas,
who. it is charged, was guilty of shop
lifting in Goldsmiths Bazaar, will
probably take place today.
Mrs. H. NJ. Williams trial has been
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owing to the absence of one of her
material witnesses. She is charged
with six different thefts Clemons, Fer
ber G. O'Malley, Weichel Bros, II. II.
Beidleuan, :. G. Kerr Son & Co, Mil
lar & Peck and the Goldsmith Bros.
being her accusers. Sixteen charges in
all were preferred against these de-
PENDANTS.
TRAMP MARKSMEN.
James AK and Robert Morrison. two
tramps, charged with wantonly shoot
ing into a crowd of boys in Taylor,
were found guilty of wantonly dis
charging firearms and sentenced TO
four months each in the county Jail.
The crime was committed Dec. 22
last. About 8 o'clock in the morning
two drunken tramps who were going
along the Jersey Central tracks, fired
a Volley of shots from revolvers at a
crowd of boys who were at play on a
culm dump alongside the track. The
terrified lads ran into Taylor and re-
ported the outrage. Chief of Police
Evans and a squad secured the neigh
borhood and during the afternoon
found a gang of tramps at the lower
steel mill.
After an exciting scrimmage the
tramps We're arrested and locked up.
In the evening, when they We're ar
raigned before Burgess Grifhths. AK
and Morrison were identified as the
pair that had done the shooting. -
the trial yesterday they swore that they
had never been in Taylor until taken
there under arrest and tried hard to
make it appear that it was a case of
mistaken identity. 1t was the doubt
thus aroused that probably caused the
jury to lower the degree of crime from
'felonious attempt to kill" to want
only discharging firearms" Attorney
j. +. Watkins assisted District Attor-
ney Jones in the prosecution and At
torney John L. Brown was assigned to
the defense.
NOT GUILTY.
Frank Eitle, hotelkeeper. Of Austin
Heights, failed to make out a good case
against Martin Comminsky, whom he
charged with having thrown a stone
through a window of his hotel, and the
jury said mot guilty: costs divided
1t appears that a stone was thrown
through the window and the people in.
side hurrying out, esped ComminskS
in the immediate neighborhood and ar.
rested him. He claimed that some
driver boys who were passing by threw
stones at him and that it was one o,
these that crashed through the win
dow.
George Betcavitch was arraigned [,
answer for stealing $40 from Michae
Unnerzevitch; $37 from Michael Gaou
and an oVercoat from Alex Nareika
He denied the first charge. admitted
the second and regarding the third sait
that the overcoat i'm question was ther
and there on his back, but it had beer
loaned to him by NOreikas wife. II,
claimed that he borrowed it and whel
he wanted to return it some weeks late
the owner would not accept it unless
he paid him for the rent of it,
n verdict of not guilty was taken IN
the first case; in the second a sentenc,
VI SiN il'llliS Was iHlllcleU, ana IN I'M
third, the oyercOat case, a nomina
sentence of three months, to run con
current with the other term, was i'm
posed. Attorney Clarence BaIentin
was assigned to the defense.
A jury was out at adjournment de
liberating on whether or not MartiI
Mangan had been guilty of beating hi
wife and daughter.
CASE FROM THE RIDGE.
Paul Gommary, his wife, Mary Com
mary and neighbor, John Houdock
Of the Ridge, were on trial at adjourn
ment for larceny and receiving.
Middleman, the prosecutor lost som
ducks and geese and a quantity @
clothes, that were hanging on the line
on the morning of Nov. 2l 1897, II
traced the property to Gommary'
house and found the clothes in Mr..
Gommary's trunk. He also learne
that Houduck had sold the property I
Mrs. Gommary. Attorney +. "