The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-19

Not guilty, but pay the costs" was
N popular finding with Yesterdays
juries in quarter sessions court. Blev-
en- defendants had this as their por-
tion.
The first to hear a jury thus declare
he was and wasn't guilty was Morris
Hollander, The Old Forge merchant,
tried the previous Day :or einhrszllng
money entrusted to lin by Wasil
Pecseniak to be sent To The la;trrs
sister in Hungary. Some time after
the arrest the money was forwarded
and Hollander claimed bafore the jury
that he sent II but It we:I. astray. Tho
jury believed this to u ..ertnln extent.
The three defendants in the case
growing out of Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul hotel case at Priceburg
were each found not very guilty. Aug
ust Krushanks and Joseph Senoski pay
the costs in the assault and battery
case and John Erushanks settles foi
the expense of tho case in which he
is charged with selling liquor on Sun
day.
Seven Lloyd street men who were
accused of assault and battery on a
neighbor, Peter Bushel, are others de-
clared sort o guilty. '"hey are Stanley
Newcowski. .AnthCay Simmons, An
drew Gleninzky Martin Gratclur!s
Joe. Laguskey tni John bennett,
The testimony as adduced before Judge
Mcclure showed that all hands were
drunk and that Bushel received his
beating during a free Eght.
CASE AGAINST WOELKERs
The eleventh ease vas tnat in which
Constable Joseph t.. J"oell:ers was
charged with assault and battery urun
Joseph Mikus. The Jury said mt gull
ty and divided the COSTS.
Mr. Mikus is a prominent South Side
merchant and among his customers
was a family named Wolfe who are
related to WOellArs. The Wolfcs sent
for Mr., MilEus to have him explain
some items in hill for groceries which
he had rend ar ii. A dispute arose and
while it was on Constable V-celkers
and his brOther-i -in-laN. Mr.. Wagner
arrived. Mrs. Wolfe told Woclkers
that Mikus had said something reflect
ing on the family as whole and
Noelkers proceeded to resent it.
The story of the prosecution is that
Woelkers sprang at Mikus and with
out the slightest provocation drew his
club and hit the merchant over the
head, infiicting an ugly scalp wound.
The defense tells II altogether differ
emily. Mikus. according to Woelkers'
story made an attempt to strike him
and missing his blow swung around
with the momentum and fell down the
steps leading to the porch. When he
regalned his feet he attempted to re-
sumo the attack but was prevented by
Wagner, who showed him away and
caused him to bump his head against
the side of the building.
Mr.. Woelkers was corroborated In
this by Wagner and the Wolfes Geo
S. Horn and T. p. Hoban were attor-
neys for the prosecution and John F.
Scragg for the defense.
The gang of boy burglars rounded
up at PeCkville by County Detective
Leyshon plead guilty Of all the
charges preferred against them when
arraigned before Judge Mcclure yes
terday morning.
THE TEN BOYS.
The boys are ten in number and their
ages range from II to II years. Will
lam Marks, the leader of the gang, was
charged particularly with entering w.
B. Bloes' drug store and stealing a gun
valued at S25. He gained entrance by
breaking through plate glass window
in the front of the store at o'clock
in the morning. The window was
valued at s45.
George Seeley, Martin Siba tiski and
David Vaughn took two pOcketbooks
from the Wilson Hose company's house.
Burgess S. r. Williams was the prose-
cutor in this case.
Eugene Seeley, Ray Seeley, John
Utsick, William Coleman, Joe Mox and
William Mox, other members of the
gang. together with George Seeley,
David Vaughn and Martin Sibatiski
robbed Morgan's store by climbing over
the transom. They will be called for
sentence Saturday.
Judge Archibald heard an interesting
case of counter prosecution hailing from
Throop. John Yobs, a saloonkeeper,
| accused George Hohmans, much re-
spected citizen of the borough, with the
larceny of $40, and Hohmans charged
| Yobs with carrying concealed weapons,
Yobs says Hohmans asked him to
| change a ten-dollar bill and that when
he placed the change on the bar Hoh-
mans pocketed it together with the
| ten-dollar bill This was done, he
said, while his attention was distracted
| and 1t did not occur to him that he
| had forgotten to get the bill until some
one called his attention to it after
| Hohmans departure. He followed
Hohmans and demanded the $40 but the
| latter refused to give it up.
STORY OF DEFENSE.
The story of the defense was that