The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-18
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.

I'VE admit the child's hair isn't gray"
Even Judge Archibald laughed.
Hetzel made 40 defense and upon
being returned guilty was given the
usual sentence.
Frank Yosak, charged by Special
Officer Jerry Driscoll with aiding a
prisoner to escape, was found guilty
and sentenced to s25 fine and thirty
! days in the county jail.
In April last the officer went to a
Hungarian boarding house in Keyser
Valley with a warrant for John Lake.
Upon attempting to serve it he was
pushed aside by Yosak and his pris-
oner given the opportunity to esape,
of which opportunity he was not slow
in availing himself. Yosak denied
| having been there at all. His attor-
/ ney was NJ. ]. Ruddy.
BEFORE JUDGE MCLURE.
When the case of John Astook, jr.,
aggravated assault and battery, Con-
| celtic Bonacarus, prosecutrix, was
called, a troop of little children filed
into Judge McClure's court and one
of them, a 6-year-old lad, was directed
| by the clerk to the defendants tabla.
"Tut, tut, what's this?" said the
| judge, glancing over the room where
| the children were moving about with
0ewildered looks or helping one another
| Chamber in the big chairs scattered
| about the bar enclosure.
Acting Assistant District Attorney
| Oliver explained that the Astook chi!
and Mrs. Bonacarus' little boy ha
| nj a hnnn a N
| the Astook boy hit the BonacaruG bog
over the head with a stone, iniicting
a severe cut.
Send them home" promptly said
| the court I'VE don't want such
cases here" The jury was directed
to return a verdict of not guilty and
put the costs on the county.
| The false pretense case of George f
| Crawford against John f. Hall and
| William Robinson developed several
interesting features. One of them
was the exposition of the fact that a
man in Scranton can secure goods
from a party in New York by false
representations and yet be free from
] prosecution. This is not saying
though, that a defense Of this kind
was solely relied upon in the case in
question.
Hall & Robinson represented to AS
| pell & Co, of New York, that they were
the owners of certain real estate ant
on the strength OF this secured credi
for $40 worth of liquors and cigars
They failed to pay for the same anC
then an investigation of their represen
tations as regards their property wal
| In q hn
that they could not find any record o.
the property the Scranton firm claimed
to own.
CRIME COMPLETED ELSEWHERE
When the case came up for ttial yes
terday, Messrs. Wedeman and Taylor
attorneys for the defense, moved t
have the case taken from the jury oI
the ground that this court lacked juris
diction. The credit was established il
New York and the goods delivered a
New York to a common carrier for con
veyance here, and New York alon
would have jurisdiction in the matter
Judge Mcclure decided this to be goot
law and directed a verict of not guilty
The jury was out at adjournment pass
ing upon the matter of costs.
AS a man can not be eXtradited 70
false pretenses, the law. in this in
stance, is on the side of dishonesty. I
was the purpose Of the defense in thi
case to prove that the representation
made to Aspell & Co. were not false
and this was proven to a certain de
gree, for after Attorney Ross had lef
the stand, after testifying that
could find no record Of deed for
certain property the defendants elaine
to own, the defendants produced tn
deed and showed where it was entere
on the books of the recorders office.
A new decision in the bicycle laws wa
promulgated in Judge McClure's cour'