Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-09-14
LEGAL NEWS.

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wife He pleaded guilty without trial
The jury in the case Of Com VS. Gland
Heenan, charged with making two as
saults on Ira NJ Brown at Hilliard
found deft. not guilty and divided th'
costs equally between Brown and Heen
an. Hirman Christy who knocked Har
vey Heenan down with the butt end OF
a whip while Cluad Heenan and Ira
Brown We're fighting was found guilty
of aggravated assault and battery.
Christy was sentenced to pay - fine
costs and enter recog to keep the peace.
The assault and battery, resisting al
officer etc. cases against William anC
Charles Jackson were settled by the
defts pleading guilty.
The surety Of the peace case against
Maria Kirchner was discharged but she
was ordered to pay the costs.
The false pertense case against
Hughy Carrothers was settled; also the
surety of the peace case against John
Burr; also the charge of embezzlement
VS. G.. NJ. Fulkman.
Robt Brunt has plead guilty to as
sault and battery.
The assault and battery case against
Amos Steelsmith was coHtiued until
December
George a. Wick plead guilty to as
sault and battery Friday on charge
made by Jennie O. Wick his wife.
The case of Com. vs. Jesse Watkins,
adultery, was continued until December
also the case of Com. VS. Frank Cusicki
also that against Thos. Barnes, il.
The a6Gb cases against J. \. Criswell
and J. c. Bryson, the assault and tres
pass case against Ed Fleshner and the
assault and surety of the peace case
against John H Douthett were tried to-
gether, Tuesday. Seven different law
yers acted in the trial. The charges all
grew out of Criswell, Bryson and
Fleshner trying to take the hay Off the
Criswell farm ut Mars of which Douth-
EFT has been in possession all summer.
Douthett tried to chase them off and
there was a general mix-up. The three
first were acquitted and the costs put
on the prosecutor, Douthett, and the
latter was convicted as indicted. An
Indictment of assault charged by Douth-
EFT VS. e. S. Hoffman was quashed fo1
error.
Stella Spicher, who plead guilty to
larceny and against whom other charges
were made, was sent to Morganza and
ordered to pay fine of $50.
George Wick was sent to the peniten-
tiary for year for beating his wife.
Robert Brunt plead guilty to assault
and battery.
On Tuesday w D. Rodgers of Fair
view was convicted of assault on Harry,
a son of Fowler Campbell, as result OF
a quarrel over a croquet game at the
Rankin farm last June.
Samuel Beatty of Renfrew was tried
Tuesday for larceny of butter, etc, and
Wednesday morning the jury returned
a verdict of not guilty, but pay all the
costs Some stolen butter and butter
bowl were found in an old coal bank on
the Marshall farm in Penn twp. and Z.
T. Templeton and Alex Stevenson
watched the place. the night of July 10,
and swore they saw Beatty enter the
bank and take up the butter. He es-
capped from them but was subsequently,
arrested. Beatty and his witnesses
swore he was playing the fiddle at Nc
Bride at the time.
The false pretense case VS. John II.
Douthett in which Chris Gelbach was
prosecutor, was settled.
Sidney Mong, of Evans City, was tried
Wednesday for agg. a&b. The of
fence charged was driving a horse over
Mary Stubbel, once Sidney's sweet
heart, on the Plank road at Glade Mills
The defence was that it was purely an
accident caused by the horses shvine
at man who waved a cane at it.
This morning the jury gave verdict
of not guilty, and put five sixths of the
costs on Sidney and one sixth on Mary
Stubbel.
Thos. Love, of Butler, was convicted
Wednesday afternoon Of selling liquor
without license. Harry Bickel being
prosecutor.
c E. Goodridge was convicted Wed
nesday of giving liquor to men Of known
incorporate habits. He gave whiskey tt
a Mr. Spence in Fairview.
Alexander Kearns, was found no
uilty of cheating his boarding hous
keeper, Mrs. Amelia Walters, OF Evans
City but the costs were put on him anC
next Monday he starts to work for But
Ter county on the Poor Farm.
Peter Schmick, of Butler, was found
not guilty of destroying an oil derrlc
near Renfrew, but five slxths of tn
costs were put on him and one sixth ol
the prosecutor, the Ajax Iron Works.
Harry Hoch of Millerstown was con
victed of aiding prisoner to escape
cape, the charge being made by Cor
stable Frank Mills
The case of Com. VS. Newton Hilliard
cutting down timber trees, has beer
| continued.
Mathew Snow, of Butler, was founC
not guilty of a&b (whipping his bo.
| with horse whip and the county t
| pay the costs His boys Harry an
Samuel were found guilty of assault
and battery for hitting Mrs. Mar
| Ladrille with a stone.
| John Gold was found not guilty c
| buying junk from a minor and tn
! prosecutor Adam Rettig was ordered
| pay all costs.
The VIM. Weigle, ,fraudulently secre
ing and removing team of horses, an
Shirley liquor cases are on for today.
GRAND JURY FINDINGS.
True Bills-Samuel Jackson, assaul
and battery, aiding prisoner to e
cap;J. c. Bryson, assault d battery; ,
A.. Criswell, assault "a count of assault
and battery was ignored); Ed. Fleshne
assault and battery; Jack Heenan, a&
and escaping from an officer, aggraya
ed assault and battery; Samuel Beatt.
larceny; John H. Douthett, false pr
tense; Harvey Heenan, assault,2 count
counts of a&b and agg a&b were igno
ed; Thomas Love, selling liquor wit
out license, Counts of giving liquor
men of incorporate habits and to me
visibly intoxicated were ignored) Hi
am Christy, aggravated ASSAULT and ba
; terry; Harry Hoch, aiding prisoner
| escape: Matthew Snow, assault and ba
terry; Newton Hilliard, cutting dow
timber trees; w. d. Rodgers assault
battery; John Gold, buying and recei'
ing Junk, etc from minors; Jos p. Shi1
ley, furnishing liquor to men visibI
intoxicated, and to men of intempera'
habits; p. l. Hunter, assault and ba
terry Ia count of aggravated assault al
battery was ignored).
: Not True Bills-G. S. Hoffman. q
sault and trespass and prosecutor, Jol
H. Douthett pay the costs; Findley Hi
man, fornication and prosecutrix, Cla
! Stepp, pay the costs; John Gold, la
I ceny: Samuel Andrew a&b and prosec
e tor VIM Oughton to pay costs; Dav
, George, breaking, entering and larcen
Richard, Ida and Lille Gallagher, Oh
:. and Mary Leech, John and Josie La
!, less. Russell Armstrong, Jos and w