Evening journal., 1900-09-21
Business Before 1t Is De-
void Of Interest
SBY GETS LIGHT SENTENCE
|lded Guilty 10 FelOniOuSly As
nuIting l4-year-Old Laura
Campbell

session Of General Sessions Cours.
grand jury concluded its work yes
May afternoon and was formally dis
N rged, leaving behind it work which
keep the petit jurors at work for sew
N days. When adjourned, the term
have been one remarkable for actiY-
ON the part OF the state in the prose-
ion of lawbreakers. Sixty-seven of
m have been indicted and all these,
y h the exception Of perhaps five, VIII
e received punishment consistent with
ir offense.
4 Tho first act Of the court yesterday
ernoon was the discharging Of Charles
Wis. the colored man who had paid a
l. for assaulting George NJ. ID. Don
n ly. OF Christiana hundred. yet had
N indicted for the offense by the grand
~. '. '''' N y ~
ohm Beall. having boen re-indicted for
#laining goods under false pretense
&tm George w. Dorsey was tried, con-
q ted and sentenced to six months i'm
sonment.
George Smith pleaded guilty TO al
large of larceny and the court sentenced
H. to four months Imprisonment.
4Upon being convicted of robbing
Nharles Chappell on the public highway,
q I'm Patterson and Frank Young, were
Ach sentenced to two years imprison-
ant. to be whipped with twenty lashes
I.d stand one hour in the pillory.
&For stealing goods from Bertha Sill
L al fnf
Neitz. William Fisher was sentenced to
whipped with fifteen lashes and serve
II months Imprisonment.
Frank Luke entered a plea OF guilty TO
@ indictment charging him with acting
Slproperly toward minor female, but
ntence was deferred.
i .ORNING SESSION WAS UNIN-
TERESTING.
s Business before the court this morning
1 gged and what was transacted was de-
bid of interest The first prisoner
|rought in for sentence was Jacob Hurst,
ne Of the young men who assaulted
lames Cl0ugh. a conductor on the Will
Iiington and New Castle Electric Rail-
lay last week. AS Hurst was the only
ipport of a widowed mother, the state
' as disposed 90 have the court act len
|ntly toward him, and after Mr.. Cooper
lad so mentioned. Hurst was sentenced
4 , pay a fine of SO and costs.
HIS SENTENCE WAS LIGHT.
In the case Of Jesse Tyson, indicted
i1r assault with intent to commit MUIR
+ er, the state accepted a
lea Of guilty of common
|ssault, whereupon the court SEN
Ianced him to pay a fine Of SIS and
|osts. Tyson is the man who, when
In agent of the Domestic Sewing Ma
Ihine Company, attempted to take q
|lachine from his house because he hac
billed TO pay one instalment, smashed
Ihe machine and assaulted the agent
James Wiley. an old offender, who
Headed guilty to an indictment charg.
Ing him with the theft of a bicycle
from Nathan Levy, was sentenced tC
be whipped with ten lashes and serve
live months imprisonment John f
.ynn appeared for the prisoner.
The first jury trial of the morning
Ivas one in which John Chandler, col
bred, figured as the prisoner. Chan
Her was indicted for having murder.
|iusly assaulted Charles Vineyard OF
he night of October /, 1899 Mr. Vine
|'ard testified that while he was in
|diddletown on the night in question
he prisoner approached him, and with
but a word of warning. or without any
plunged a knife into hi.
left arm near the elbow, inflicting {
wound which crippled the arm. Chan.
Her had not been arrested earlier be-
ause Of having been out Of the state
It was testified by Magistrate vii.
lam r. Reynolds, of Middletown, ant
llames L. Chandler q county constable
hat Chandler had pleaded not guilty
10 the charge before the magistrate.
Chandler in his own defense. admit
ed having cut Mr.. Vineyard, but sait
ne had done so because he was attack
ad by Mr.. Vineyard and his brother.
In rebuttal Mr.. Vineyard declared he
lid not attack Chandler Justice Boyce
delivered the charge to the jury, a YER
.lict Of guilty was returned and a SEN
|ence Of three years imprisonment and
10 stand one hour in the pillcry i'm
posed upon the prisoner.
DNE YEAR FOR FELONIoUS AS
SAULT.
Wayman Frisby, colored, indicted for
having used 14-year-old Laura Frisby
|or immoral purposes, was brought in
Tor trial. Sylvester Townsend appear
I'd for him. The prosecuting witness
pold OF the assault, which was commit
led at the farm of Robert Huggins
hear Newport. on the morning Of Sep
ember I. When the girl left the stand
Mr.. Townsend withdrew the plea Of
not guilty and re-entered- cne Of guilty
VII reupcn the jury found Frisby
guilty without leaving the box. Be
'ccs sentence was passed the court call
ID Mr.. Cooper, Mr.. Townsend and Mr.
HuFgins into consultation with it and
The information obtained induced the
court tc impose the unusually lRht
ce one years imprisonment
Chief Justice Lore remarked at the
time that the court believed such a
sentence was a proper one.
For having assaulted John w. Quill
len. q Delaware railroad freight con-
iuctcr, John McLane, an 1S-year-old
ooy. whose home Is in Baltimore, was
sentenced to serve six months lmpris-
)nment
Theodore Carlin was tried before a
Jury for the larceny OF eighteen pairs
IF overalls from Michael Rafferty, on
Iune 10. L. Irving Handy represented