Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-03-16
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LEGAL "S'
Grand Jury Presentment.

The grand jury made its tnal pre-
sentiment Friday afternoon. Ihey ACT
ed on eleven cases finding ten true DlIs.
They recommended new bridge over
Connodunessing creek in Forward twp.
at the Knauff place. The County jail.
boiler house and the Court House were
visited and all found in good condition.
Several small improvements We're sug-
ested to be made in the Court House.
The crossings of the p. B. l.. h.
and p. & w. railroads over Main
street Butler were returned as
| places dangerous to the public The
| Jury expressed themselves as favorlng
| the erection of medium sized brlck
houses for the poor farm and belleved
that sewerage should be used on the
farm.
Before adjourning his fellow jurors
took vote expressing their apprecia
ton of the manner in which Hugh
Sproul. the foreman had governed their
! sittings.
CRIMINAL COURT
Criminal Court convened Monday
morning. Jurymen S. NJ. Miles OF Mil
| lerstown and R. J. Nevin of Zelienople
were excused from service.
The first case tried was that of Com.
VS. Joseph Larkin, assault and battery.
John Hynes the prosecutor did not ap-
pear. The charge was that Larkln
| knocked Hynes down on Wayne street
| Butler near the Hotel Willard. The
| iury returned verdict of mot guilty,
! but pay the costs" and Larkin was SEN
! fenced accordingly.
| Part of Butler county, 1tlnerant col
| ored population which follows the con
| ,f, I1,oo1c EuT1ra6
| nal court this week This is about the
story. Alonza Finney, married and
! living at Harmony, came up to Butter
| a few weeks ago ostensibly looking for
work and stopped with VIM. Radclltf
and wife who live in n long wooden
| house at the old salt works east OF
town. Finney stayed with Radcllfs
| over night. Next morning Radcl1tf left
the house and coming back shortly at
| terwards found Finney III a compromls-
ing position with his wife. Finney broke
| for the door and Radc.iff followed and
chased him from the house for some
distance, shooting at him with a revol-
YER One bullet struck Finney IN the
back and lodged under the shoulder
! blade where it still remains. Radchn
was arrested for feloneous shooting and
| Finney for assault and battery with in
| tent to commit rape the charge against
| him being preferred by Mrs. Radclitf
| They were tried together Monday and
Tuesday morning the jury acquitted
| both, but found that Finney should pay
half the costs in the case against him
and Mrs Radcliff the other half.
On the night of Feb 12 twenty-nine
| chickens and two turkeys were stolen
from the coop of Samuel Parks In
Adams twp. Mr. Parks had Abe
| Woods and Robert Tolbert (colored) in
dicted for the theft 1t appears that
| Woods went to Parks, place, took the
chickens. broke their necks, and car
| ried them to Tolberus place (in Alleghe-
ny county, about one o'clock in the
morning. There the two men dressed
them and the next morning Tolbert
! shipped them at Valencia to Pitts
burg dealer. Later Tolbert collected
| the pay for them and kept the money,
| Tuesday Tolbert was discharged of the
| Indictment against him for receiving
| stolen goods and Woods was convicted
| of larceny and sentenced eight months
| to the Penitentiary.
The perjury case of Com. VS. VIM. M.
Cowan went to trial Monday morning
| and Tuesday afternoon, after being out
short time, the jury returned YER
| dict of mot guilty but pay all the
| costs" Mr.. Cowan is Mercer twp farm
| er He had neighbor Samuel Taylor
| tried for burglary at the December,
! 1897. Court. TAYLOR was acquitted and
sued for $4,000, damages for malicious
| prosecution. This case was for trial on
| the first Monday of February 1898 at
| which time Cowan asked for contln-
| uance and also for attachments on ten
Venango county witnesses who did not
appear and whom he swore he had sub
| poened and given So each for expenses:
| This was the alleged perjury. Five of
| these witnesses appeared IN Court Mon
| day and swore that they had not been
| subpeoned and had not been given 50.
| for expenses, but no two of them could
| testify to the same fact and as 1T takes
| two witnesses to convict man OF per-
jury the acquital followed.
Addison Fullerton of Butler, this
morning plead guilty to two charges of
| obtaining money under false pretense,
and was sentenced In one case to pay
| the cost, $15, fine and undergo inprison-
ment i'll Jail for two months. Sentence
| in the other case was not passed.
The Jury in the case of Com VS.
| Thomas Bother of Myoma assault and
| battery brought in verdict this morn
| ing finding him not guilty, he to pay
one third the costs and the prosecutor
Jas. Richardson the other two thirds.
Richardson was sentenced to enter
recog in 5000 to keep the peace.
The case of Com VS. A. P Stewart,
embezzlement. is on trial as we go to
press.
| The f. & b case against Saml J. Gra-
ham was settled.
The Indictment against Peter
| Schmick for malicious mischief was
| quashed
NEW SUITS
| Jacob Gelbach for use of Jacob Dam
bach VS. Daniel McDevitt and John
| Grossman, sci ia sur judgement of
1870 66 to revive and continue lien of
same.
Birdie Sutton by her father and next
| friend Johnston Campbell VS. AlonZe SUIT
| ton, petition for divorce. The parties
were married in 1894. Cruelty and neg
lect are the causes for which divorce
is asked.
! Leah Otto VS. p. & w. r. R. Co. and
| L. M. King receiver, lrespdSS LOT S>,o ouV
damages sustained by the defendant en-
tering upon ard building railroad over
the pff's farm in Jackson twp.
Ulrich Winter VS. P. & w, R. R. Co,
and T. NJ. King receiver, summons in
tresspass for $40, 900. damages done to
the pff's dam, mill, and house at Eid-
enau Station in Jackson twp during the
double tracking of the railroad at that
point. The channel of the Connoque-
Messing was changed by railroad COM
pany to obviate the necessity of build
ing two bridges and this change of
channel destroyed the water power of
the dam. The house and mill were also
injured by blasting
Jacob L. Sharkey VS. the P. w Ry.
Co., assumpsit, claim $1,000.
Ed. Roach VS. H. F. Eicholtz, G. S.
Ellsworth, J. w. Mckee ct al, assump-
sit, claim S649.95.
! DoERR FARM APPROVED.
, The Court handed down an opinion
Wednesday afternoon dismissing, at
the county's cost, the exceptions to the
purchase of the Doerr farm by the
County Commissioners for poor farm.
The opinion stated that the entire
power to purchase rests in the commits
sioners, and that the approval of the
: Court is necessary only as regards
plans for building, etc.
, A stranger in town during the last