The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-27

whose case was the first called NeStpT-
day morning was acquitted. The costs
were placed on the prosecutor in these
two cases. The two cases i'm which the
iuries are out are those against Jacob
KoCk and Christian Kline.
The story of the prosecution in yes
terday's trials was substantially the
same as that of the day before. Traver
told of buying intoXicants for himself
and his man ANGEL At the places kept
by the accused and described in detail
the saloon-lke appearance of each
place. County Detective LcyshOn was
| called by the commonwealth in the Nc
| Guiggan case and testified that he
| bought drink there. MCGuiCgan's de-
| fenSc was that he was not the propri-
! ctOr Of the place which TraVcr alleges
! is 2 speak k-easy Koch and Kline de-
/ MED selling anything intoxicating
/ Kline under cross examination admitted
| that he had n beer pump rigged up back
/ Of his bar but Contendcd that 1t was
| attached to a barrel of root beer. In
| his charge To- the jury Judge Archibald
suggested, in a general way, that Kline
/ had better take out his beer pump or
! get license
TRAVERS ATTACKED.
Attorney John j. Murphy added
new and sensational feature to the de-
! fense in Yesterdays trials, 1t was owl
dcnCe to show the bad character of the
| prosecutor. Under the rules, VeraCity
! is the only thing that can be attacked.
| hut Mr.. Murphy in an inferential way
turned the light on the various other
sides of Travcr's character
Colonel James II. Orr. of Wilkes
Barre. was Mr.. Murphys star witness.
From the question asked. rather the
| answers given, it was made to appear
| that TraVer wasn't nice kind of
man at all. Colonel Orr wanted to tell
that Traver was bad all over, but court
ruled out most Of the interrogationS
along that line among them one as to
whether or not Traver was proprietor
OF "a house of i'll repute, in Wilkes
Barre. some five or six years ago About
the only thing of consequence he tes-
tifed to. in Il direct way, was that
Traver's reputation for Neracity was
bad in Wilkes Barre.
Prompted by Traver, District At
torncy Jones asked questions which
brought ont the fact that Colonel Orr
not long ago had Traver arrested for
libel for printing an article charging
him with arson. and that TraVer in
turn had Orr arrested for hiring two
cOlnreG men to waylay and beat him.
There We're SoIne very lively tits while
orr was on the stand. Clerk of the
Courts Walter Il. kOons, of LuZerne
county also testified that Traver's rep
utatiOn for VeraCity was not one of the
proudest boasts of Wilkes Barre.
TRAVER ON THE STAND.
Travcr went on the stand after each
| I, ic cl, nt or u N
endeavored to set himself right in the
eyes of the jury and particularly TO
deny one of Orr's many startling state
ments, to the effect that he had ad-
mitted to Orr that the Scranton prose-
cutions were nothing more or less than
a scheme to make little money.
? The case now on trial is that against
Frank Grambo. The case against
Frank Rose is scheduled to be taken
. up next,
In an interim between the McGuig-
gan and Koch cases, Judge Archibald
tried the speak-easy case, in which T,
II G. MalOney was the prosecutor and
| Andrew KominSki, of PTiCeburg, the
defendant, and another of similar
character in which John Seiss was ac-
! cused by John +. Davis In the first
named case the jury disagreed and was
. | discharged in the second a verdict
of guilty was returned and the usual
= sentence of $500 fine and three months
in Jail, imposed.
Mrs Nellie Palmer was found guilty
of the heinous offense OF drugging q
young girl and standing by while she
was subjected to the grossest indigni-
. ties Her only defense was that she
was drunk and did not know anything
. that she was doing at the time,
/ The re-trial of the case against Gui.
a seppi Longo, charged with a murder.
GUS assault upon Giovanni Gilbert al
n Little England last September, tool
n place before Judge Edwards in cour'
10 room No. .. The re-trial was granted
on the strength of the capture of one
= Of the runaway eye-witnesses PhilipC
: BianCo. His evidence did not effec
" any change in the verdict rendered las
week and Longo goes down to the pen
: itentiary for three years.
ON TRIAL FOR ROBBERY.
S John Walsh, James Dacey and vii
;. liam McNicholas, charged with way
- laying and robbing Martin Milcavit2
- at the Continental, Sunday evening
Nov. 2l are on trial before Judge Ed
wards. officer stephen Dyer repre-
;, sents the police department as prose
: cutor.
; 4 jury went out at adjournment ol
Il the case of Bramm Green, a grey
r haired Keyser Valley man, Charge'
l. with criminal assault upon Maggie A
Jones. a ffteen-year-oIu girl. He wa
acquitted Of a similar charge preferre
by this same girl, June "a last hi
n defense being that an injury receive
in the war precluded all possibility q
his guilt The offense with which h
is now charged was, il is alleged, com
mtted i'm the month Of September
following the former trial.
> In the case of Constable Joseph j
=. WOelkers charged with aggravate
- assault and battery on Constable Ere
Mink, the jury said not guilty an
divided the costs.
T., George Littlcjohn was acquitted G
the charge or stealing n pocketboo
ia from the home of Michael McGuir,
Of Providence.
, At adjourning time Sarah A. Rus
40 sell of Providence was on trial befor
20 Judge Oimstead on the charge Of ben
=, scold, the prosecution being Maggl
=, Morgans.