The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-01-07

ed with tho Larceny of an 1usured Policy
Set for Trial Tedny-Proc-<disss Of Yes.
tsrdayt. Session of the Criminal Court
Failure or the jury TO agree upon a
verdic. yesterday in The criminal court
| made a second mIs.r.al in the case
| against III. c. Hays. cotored. charged
J with abortion
The Jury in t.his case remained u
| until noon. but faIied utterly To agree
| upon a verdict. the nearest vote ID an
! agreement being eight for conviction
! and four for acquittal: w~he-eupon the
| court ordered a juror withdrawn and
a mistrial had
Solicitor Richardson then. with per
mission of tire court. entered A mol
pros in the case against Hays. who Ia
| The wei known ~janitor at the opera
house. and also mol pressed the case
| against Carter Peamon. coaorsd.
| charged with abortion.
The Jury in the Hays case YVES con-
stituted as follows: E. II. Il. Sorunck.
Randall Allen. T. w. Wood. 1. Shrser.
]. u. Sidberry. Simon Richardson, w.
B.. Harker, J. II. Howe. r. NJ. Mot:, j.
j. Jackson. Geo. Graham and J. orr.
George Williams. the colurei boy
Who stole a bicycle from the establish
mert Of Mr.. w. =. Morrison on the
| 26th OF last month AMI who was cap
tured near Rocky Point, was conv!cted.
Williams counsel. Lawyer Henderson.
| requested the court 10 be lenient in its
| sentence, owing to the good character
| Of the boy'sm on account or
the boys, never before having1 been
| charged with larceny. A sentence III
four months in the county house OF
| correction was entered in the case.
WITH the proviso that the court would
| reconsider the sentence If the defence
cou.d show that Williams. the ddfen~s
dant. was a boy Of good neral charac-
ter.
a verdict Of not guilty was render
ed in the case against Willie HarTi-
son, a colored boy, charged with steal
ing a coat from The store Of an Assy-
rian woman. on Front street. between
Dock and Orange. Trouble was ex-
perienced in this case by the court in
getting the evidence straight. as The
Assyrian woman. from whom the coat
was alleged to have been stolen, could
only give vuice in her native language.
SO an interpreter had to be called in.
John D. Kerr, Esq. of Clinton, repre-
scented Solicitor Richardson in the
prosecution and Lawyer Moore. col
ored, appeared for the defendant.
Other cases were disposed of as fol-
lows:
William Bolton, colored. charged
with assault with a deadly weapon,
was sentenced to six months in the
county house OF correction.
II. F. Bell, colored, charged with lar
ceny, was declared not guilty.
John Sanders, colored, submitted in
two cases Of larceny. and was SIT
fenced to twelve months imprisonment
in the penitentiary in the first, ase
and judgment was suspended in the
second.
Willie Wilkinson, colored. found
guilty of larceny, was sentenced to
two years imprisonment in the pend-
~tentiary. The same defendant was
adjudged guilty in another case OF
larceny, but Judgment was suspended.
&. At $50 O'Clock court took a recesss
until 10 O'Clock this morning.
"A true bin was foundKfn the case
against Sam Living4 pm, color~d.
charged with secretly as2aulting A. Il.
Lamb, also colored, but not a true bFIf
was found I'm the case against David
George and Caleb Henry, chargedwfth
assault and battery.
In the following cases true bills were.
returned: Richard Herring, Edward
Cause. Moses Williams, Son Clark and
Amos Willie. charged with larceny:
John Fairc.oth, Arthur Brown. Alex.
Rome and Jas. Eddie, charged with as
sault with deadly weapon; Son Clark,
charged with house breaking.
The case against Mr.. Edwp~g~F.
Hanna, charged with the larceny of an
insurance policy, is Set for trial to y,
and Giles Anderson. white. the esa r
Of the fireman of the British steamship
KirkhiH, Will probably be a-raigned to