The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-28

The case AGAINST John Woodbridge
who is charged with having woefully
abused his 5-year-o niece, the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Sheridan, was
given to the jury yesterday morning at
1890 o'clock. The jury agreed at
o'clock last evening and sealed its ver-
dict. 1t will be brought into court this
morning.
Joseph Fitzpatrick, the Pine Brook
youth who caused the police SO much
uneasinesS last winter. was tried be-
fore Judge Edwards for the theft of a
pair of opera glasses from the resi-
dence of George b. Hand on Jefferson
avenue. Miss Anna Hand testified that
the glasses were taken from the parlor
of her fathers residence about Feb. 25
last She identified a pair of opera
glasses found at the home of Kilpat-
rick as the ones taken from her faith
cr's residence.
The defendant swOre that he found
the glasses under a seat in the ACad-
emy of Music after a matinee one at
teTnOon last winter. Another boy saw
the glasses at about the same time he
did and both made a dash under the
seat for them. He was q little quicker
than the other boy and secured the
prize. The boy lived on the South Side
but Kilpatricl; was unable to give his
name. He took the glasses home and
gave them to his mother. The case
was given to the jury at o'clock, and
q verdict was agreed upon an hour
later. 1t was sealed and will be hand
ed to the court this morning.
ATTEMPTED CRIMINAL ASSAULT.
Patrick Daley, of Minooka was tried
before Judge Henry X. Weand in No
. on a charge of attempting to Grim
inally assault Mrs. Michael D. Walsh,
also of Mino0lia. The alleged Offensa
was committed in the Walsh home. 1t
was late at night and during the alb
senCe of Mrs. Walsh's husband she al
leges that Daley secured an entrance
into the house and got into he'd with
her.
She struggled desperately with him
and got him from the bed chamber into
the kitchen. He was So cnraged at be-
ing foiled. Mrs. Walsh said, that he
tramped on her toes, breaking one OF
them.
The defense was an alihi. Ha was
able to explain where he spent the
night of April -, when the alleged Of
Tense was committed. Two witnesses
sWore they went home with Walsh that
night. When they reached the house it
was but a few minutes after the time
Daley is supposed to have left. yet Mrs.
Walsh did not show any signs of haV-
ing been in a struggle and did not make
any complaint of an attempt having
been made to assault her The case
went to the jdry at 80 o'clock \ ver-
dict was reached after adjournment
and sealed
stephen Danfulla. of Old Forge, was
arraigned for selling liquor without a
license and on Sunday. Constable
Matthew Beam was prosecutor. Sew
cral witnesses We're examined who
sWore that they bought liquor from the
defendant. The latter said he was
Il bartender and that house had a
license in the name of one John Spitz
The license registerw produced and il
showed that this contention was cor
rect
JUDGE BELIEVED HIM.
Judge Edwards said there could bt
no conviction of selling liquor without
license and the jury went out to de.
eide upon the matter of selling on Sun.
day. The verdict was not guilty but
the defendant was directed to pay the
costs.
sylvester Pieliski. Anthony Oalaska
and Stiney Olelko were called for tria
in No. = on a charge of aggravated as
sault and battery, preferred by Adam
norkcnts, of ThroOp. Olelko did no
appear for trial and his bail was for
fCted The other two defendants Wert
put on trial. 1t was alleged that they
hit the prosecutor on the head with al