The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-04-20

chimes as "a worse pest than the lice
of Egypt"
From the evidence adduced up to the
time of adjournment it would appear
that another unfortunate mistake was
made by the grand jury in these cases.
Two witnesses were examined Will
lam Dwyer and Ignatz Dram. South
Washington avenue hotelkeepers. in
whose hotels, it was held, Pease main
tanned gambling devices known as slot
machines. Each admitted having had
a slot machine in his barroom, but as
far as they knew Pease was in no way
connected with them. Neither witness
knew Pease, and could not remember
ever having seen him before entering
the court room yesterday.
Dwyer said a man named Cosgrove
put the machine in his hotel, collected
the money from it, and finally took it
away. This was last December He
did not know Cosgroves address,
further than that he understood he
lived on the West Side.
DID NOT KNOW THEM.
Dram stated that he did not know
! any of the three men who visited his
saloon in connection with placing the
! machine there, repairing it. collecting
| from it. and finally taking 1t away. He
| did hear the name of one of them one
! time, but had forgotten it. Il got a
poor memoranda in my head" Dram
explained. Maybe my boy. he tell
One of the men was called Dick" he
remembered. When pressed to give a
description of the men, he told that
Of hnf tpn 1Nt,t +,
that his memory failed him.
Pease and William Curtis. who is al
legged to have been Peases agent, were
each in turn called upon to stand up,
but Dram could not recognize either of
them as one of the three slot machin-
lists with whom he had done business
Mr.. Dram swore positively that he
had not talked with anybody about the
| case before coming into court.
Guilhot and Merlier, the two young
Frenchmen. who shot officers Hayes
and Snyder, in Dunmore, July /, of last
| year, and who withdrew their plea OF
| guilty, on the previous day, were calle |
| for trial before Judge Archibald and a
| jury, yesterday, in the main court
room.
The story they told on the previous
day was repeated in detail, through
Prof. Lamaze. The gas-pipe bomb
| containing a pound of giant powder
| which they dropped In their fight, was
according to their explanation, a pet
ard" which they had prepared for the
| Fourth of July. Their friend, John
| Buranz gardener at the German ceme-
| terry, had been visiting them that even
| ing, and after he left they thought ii
would be good joke to go to his home
| hang the "petard" on tree and eX-
plode il.
With this purpose in view, they cut
through the woods, but after proceed
| ing a short distance it occurred to them
that even though the Fourth of July
cannonading had begun, it was too late
at night to shoot off the "petard." Sc
| they turned back, intending to play
| the joke the next night.
They had just begun to retrace their
| steps when two men accosted them
| one of them having a revolver. Not
| being able to understand what was
| said TO them, and thinking they were
being held up by footpads, Guilhot
drew a revolver from his coat pocket
| and fired at the man who had a pistol
| leveled at his friend, Merler and then
| at the other man, who attempted to
| overpower him.
DID NOT CONFESS.
They denied that they told a man in
Montreal that they had shot two
policemen in Scranton who attempted
to arrest them while they were on their
way to blow up a coal operators house.
declared fhnV
archists.
The story of Policemen Keyes and
Snyder was to the effect that they
| noticed the two men prowling about in
the woods: that they were there for
fully fifteen minutes, and that when
they were approached and asked what
they were doing there, Merlier drew a
revolver, but hesitating about firing,
Guilhot grasped it and shot twice. The
officers declare they did not draw a
revolver until after Guilhot shot.
Judge Archibald told the jury, as he
told Attorney Harris on the previous
day, that the story of the "petard" was
very thin. He also pointed out other
| weak spots in the defendants testi-
mony and showed several glaring dis
crepancies, Mr.. Harris entered a gen.
fld cNCepllOIl 10 the CndfHe.
The case was given to the jury at
adjourring time.
Judge Kelly presided in court room
No. 2, yesterday, relieving Judge Cor
don, who heard arguments in the Dean
against Church equity suit, which he
Is engaged in trying.
The first case called before Judge
Kelly was that of Mike Slontzkie, of
Jermyn, charged by John Bolnezkie
with having thrown stones through his
window and door. The jury said not
guilty. and divided the costs. Assist
ant District Attorney Ross and II. D..
Carey represented the commonwealth,
ana Charles f. Oliver the defendant.
a verdict was also taken before
Judge Kelly in the case of John Reap.
John McDermott and James Hiand,
South Side lads. charged with break
ink windows in the residence of Mrs.
Ellen McHale. The p"osecutrix failed
to appear, and the defer ddnts We're dis
charged.
a verdict of not guilty was directed
in the false pre:e lse case Of w. c.
Carey against Roley Bellies. In the
ease of Tom ]. Phillips, charged by
County Detective Leyshon with setting
up an Illegal lottery, mol pros. was
entered for want of evidence.
Verdicts of not guilty were taken in
he cases 81 Andrew FREQ. felonious
younding, Joseph Sproto, prosecutor
ND Powell Mllosza and Andrew Kru-
.cl assault and battery. Stanley Ska
uba, prosecutor.