Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-09-07
LEGAL NEWS.
CRIMINAL COURT.

LEGAL NEWS.
CRIMINAL COURT.
The September term of Quarter Se.-
sions commenced Monday morning,
which was consumed by the Court ad-
dressing the constables and road super
visors of the county and receiving the
I constables' returns. In the afternoon
the grand jury went to work. Elliott
Robb. of Franklin twp, being chosen
foreman. Charles Krumpe, of Clinton
twp, one of the jurymen summond,
! died last week. Seventy seven cases
I will 90 before the jury.
/ Up to the time of our going to press
the Grand Jury has made but one re
turn as follows:
True bills-Sydney Mong, assault
| etc: Harry and Samuel Snow, assault;
| c. E. Goodridge, furnishing liquor TO
men Of known incorporate habits;
Lewis Bastian, a&b; Alexander Carnes
| false pretense; John H. Douthett, as
sault Jas. p Elliott, f&b; and Peter
| Schmick, willfully and maliciously in
| iuring machinery connected with an
| oil well.
Not true bills-Harry and Samuel
/ to pay the costs: jefferson Winner as
! sault and a&b, and prosecutor. Geo.
| Rotnour, to pay costs; Geo NJ. Cote,
| aSb and attempt to commit rape, and
prosecutrix, Alice McAllister, to pay
| costs. Findley Hillnan, immortality,
| and prosecutrix, Clara Stepp, TO pay
! costs; and c. Z, Goodridge, assault. and
! prosecutor, w. A. Fleming to pay
! costs.
ARGUMENT COURT.
The case of Timothy Sweeney, of
Donegal twp, VS. Butler county, con
cerning the exemption of timber lands
! from taxes was argued Tuesday but no
decision given.
A jury trial was asked for in the di-
vorce case of Mrs. j. VI. Roth VS. John
NJ. Roth.
NEW SUITS
n NJ Richardson vs. O. F. Keister,
appeal by deft. from Judgment Of John
Weigle J. p.
Yellow Creek Creamery Co. VS. VIM.
Myers and Geo FIinner appeal by
defts from Judgment of Henry PeiTce
J, p.
National Wall Paper Co. VS. Harry
Hamilton, appeal by deft from judg-
ment of Philip Hilliard, J. p.
Geo Cousins VS. Il. A. Holiday, APP
.eal by deft. from Judgment of r. b.
Gilghrist, j. p.
H. A. Peifer VS. Cedwig Goehring,
appeal by deft from Judgment of J. F.
Shannon, j. p.
L. S. Covert VS. Geo. Cote, and Rob
erts & Co and w r. Mccormick appeal
by deft from Judgment of w. A. Sloan,
j. p.
J. T. Blair for use of Earl Blair min
or child VS. Henry Roberts and Geo. NJ.
Cote, appeal by defts from judgment of
Edward Brown, j. p.
Elgin City Banking Co. Of H., vs. ].
p Goettman, G. f. Domhoif, j. }. Rein
hart, A. r. Meeder, ct al, appeal by
defts from judgment of G. E. Anderson,
J. p.
David S. Criswell vs. Josiah Wigton
appeal by deft. from Judgment of $lS5
rendered by c. E. Anderson, j, p.
r. NJ. Surrena VS. W. H. Brown ap-
| peal by deft. from judgment of 80
rendered by j. H. Cochran, J. F., of
Harrisville.
Darius and Idella Hutchinson VS.
| Chas., John and Peter Whitmire, tres
pass, claiming 800 damages for the
defts. entering upon the plfs'. land at
Boydstown and cutting and carrying
away the hay.
Nettie Shaffer VS. Ira NJ
Shaffer libel in divorce for de-
| sertion. The paper sets forth that the
| parties were married in 1850 and that in
| 1859 the deft. married another woman.
Marg e. Bray VS. William ]. Bray,
| libel in divorce for cruel and barbarous
| trea tment.
Samuel Park, of Mars, VS. Emma E.
Park, petition for divorce for desertion.
| They were married in 1866.
NOTES.
| Geo. NJ Cote, n Pittsburg lumber
| dealer, had Il hearing before Esq. An
| derson, Saturday morning, on n charge
| of attempted rape preferred by strange
| looking creature who gave her name as
| Mrs. Alice McCallister, but who ac-
| knowledged she had sailed under other
names, and Cote was held for Court The
| circumstances of the case are about as
1 lOllOWS. ~ ftdI vi bNO ago Jas. ~. NC
| Marlin sold his farm in Adams twp.
near Mars TO a retired iron manufacturer.
named Roberts, Roberts traded it to
Cote, his son-in-law, and Cote stocked
it with the best of everything, and leas-
ed it to a lawyer farmer named McCor-
| mick also of Pittsburg, on the shares
| reserving a room in the house for him
self and family. Mr.. Cote was there
| last March for one night, the McCallis-
| ter woman was there at the same time
| as servant and she claims that during
that night Cote went 10 her room and
made improper proposals TO her and af
terwards promised her money to keep
| still Then some trouble arose between
| the McCormicks on one side, and Cote
and Roberts on the other; and Roberts
had Mccormick arrested for slandering
his grand daughter, who lived at Mars,
and Cote had bill in equity filed
against Mccormick to estrain him from
selling his stock; and this woman now
has Cote arrested for this alleged at
tempted rape, though she did not make
the information until Monday of last
week. Aug. 2Sth, oyer five months after
the alleged offense, and made some
strange admissions on the witness stand
| regarding hush money. 1t seemed remark
able to MS that a reputable and respons-
ible citizen of the state should be held
for Court on such evidence.
A motion for a new trial has been
made by the plf in the ejectment suit of
Kiskaddon VS. Martin.
The will of Michael Miller of Sum
NIT twp. has been probated and letters
testamentary granted TO Maria Miller
The finding of Sherffs inquistion to
fix the value of the estate of o. II. r.
Graham, decd, of Cranberry twp.
was confirmed nisi. 1t was fixed at
$209G
The financial report of the Concord
twp. school district for the past term
shows total receipts amounting to
T2SS1.94 and expenditures amounting to
S2627 63.
Ross b. McDermitt was appointed
guardian of Ida Blanch and Mabel
Florence Kaylor, on petition of Simon
=. Kaylor.
1 Tho A uditor'a ranort of tho school dia-