Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-09
MARIETTA DAILY LEADER
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1893
GRAND JURY REPORT.

Seven Indictments Presented, Including
One Against Morgan Mcsweeney For
First Degree Murder.
The grand jury for the April term of
Common Pleas Court, the first un-
under the direction of Prosecuting At
torney Brenan, completed its work Fri
day and sent in it's report to Judge
Ooultrap. The Jury reported having
examined 80 witnesses, covering eleven
cases, four of which were ignored.
One of the four was the case against
Principal A. M. Farlow, of the Third
street school, who was charged with
inficting undue punishment on pupil.
Concluding its report the Jury says:
+ During our session we have visited
the County Jail and find that it's condi-
tion is better than we haye ever before
seen it, and its sanitary condition as
good as can possibly be under the pres
ept arrangement and number of rooms
and cells. We find, however, that
there is urgent need for larger, safer
and more commodious jail. We End
that the license of 3. F. Riggs for the
operation of ferry at Independence
Landing has expired and not been re-
newed. G.. II. BINGHAM, Foreman.
Six of the indictments returned are
as follows, the seventh being withheld
to await the arrest of the person ac-
cused:
Ohio VS.. Charles Irwin; petit larceny
Ohio VS.. Morgan McSweeney; murder
in first degree.
Ohio VS.. Christian Anders; assault
and battery.
Ohio VS.. Frederick Nelson; non-sup-
port of minor child.
Ohio VS.. Oliver Smith; assault and
battery.
Ohio VS.. Nancy C. Kinchelo; shooting
with intent to kill and wound.
In the McSweeney indictment, for
first degree murder, the Jury is brief
and says that they "do find and present
that Morgan McSweeney, late of said
county, on 2lst day of January, 1898, in
said county of Washington and State
of Ohio, in and upon one William E.
Mason, then and there being, did unlaw-
fully and purposely and of deliberate,
and premeditated malice make an as
sault in a menacing manner, with in
tent him, the said William E. Mason,
unlawfully and purposely and Of de.ib-
crate and premeditated malice, to kill
and murder, and with a certain sharp
instrument to said jurors unknown
which he, the said Morgan McSweeney,
in his right hand then and there had
and held, him, the said William E
Mason, then and there unlawfully, pur-
posely and of deliberate and premedi-
tated malice, did strike, stab and wonn1 J.,
with the intent aforesaid, thereby then
and there giving to him, the said Will
liam E. Mason, in and upon the belly
of him, the said William e. Mason, two
mortal wounds, one of the depth of
four inches and of the length of one
inch, and the other of the depth of
three and one-half inches and of the
length of one inch, of which said two
mortal wounds the said William E..
Mason then and there continuously
languished until on the 22d day of jan
uary 1898, he, the said William E
Mason, of the said two mortal wounds,
then and there in said county of Wash
ington died; and so the jurors afore-
said, upon their oaths aforesaid, do say
that the said Morgan McSweeney him,
the said William E. Mason, in the man.
ner and by the means aforesaid, unlaw-
fully, purposely and of deliberate and
premeditated malice, did kill and muir
der"