Evening journal., 1901-05-23
COURT WAS
SYMPATHETIC
Three Prisoners Discharged.
Others Lightly Sentenced
MUTE ONE OF THE FORTUNATES
Other Man Brought to Crime While
Intoxicated Grand Jury Has
Been Discharged

General Sessions Court had deaf
and dumb. prisoner TO deal with this
morning. He was Spider" Anderson,
colored. who was indicted for larceny.
Spiders" affliction moved the attor-
.ney-general and the court to leniency,
and after the prisoner had expressed
in writing his intention to leave the
city if he were discharged, the court
made the order
Frank Smith, J. r. Mcdowell, James
Walls and Frank Jones, indicted for
gambling, were brought in for sen
tencc, each being ordered to pay a fine
of $500 and costs. in default of which
20 serve one' years Imprisonment.
On a charge of larceny. William.
alias Bunny" Harris. was sentenced TO
be whipped with ten lashes and TO
serve eighteen months Imprisonment
Trial of the five cases Of attempted
murder against Ernest Dutton. color
ed was fixed for next Monday
Continuance until the next term of
court was made in the case of lar
ceny against Henry H. Giles
John Mullins, a white man of re-
spectacle appearance, who had entered
plea of guilty TO the Indictment
charging him with assault and battery
on James Riley, a special officer in the
employ of the p. W. & B. Railroad
Company, was given his freedom, cir
cumstanccs of the case being such as
moved the court to sympathy. Mullins
was intoxicated when he committed
the Ofense. He promised the court
that ii he were allowed TO go and sup
port his wife and children he would
stop drinking. William +. Kurtz, who
represented Mullins, assured the court
that his client could be depended on
whereupon the prisoner was dis
charged.
Spencer Smith, an 1S-year-old whit,
boy, who has given the police mucl
trouble of late. was sentenced to b,
whipped with ten lashes and be i'm
prisoned fer six months on a charge o.
larceny
Charles Stout, a young colored man
indicted for larceny, also benefited by
the courts leniency. he having beer
given his freedom on probation. The
offense was his first
A jury was drawn 10 try John Henry
Gould for the larceny of FIVE skirts from
| Lizzie Davis, colored, of this city
The State failed to prove its case
whereupon the jury returned a verdic
Of not guilty. The prisoner was helt
} for the Maryland authorities.
Lizzie Jackson, who was indicted
with Could pleaded guilty. and wa.
sentenced to six months Imprisonment
William II. Brown, colored. wa,
uied before a jury for the larceny o
200 pounds of coal from cars Of thu
Pennsylvania railroad Company Th'
prisoner was convicted and was sen
fenced to six months Imprisonment.
NOlle presses were entered to indict
ments charging Percy Smith with lar
ceny; James Walls, John +. Mcdowell
and Clarence Smith with gambling
The prisoners pleaded guilty to frs
indictments against them and wer
sentenced
The grand jury was discharged final
ly yesterday afternoon.
General Sessions Court will finish it
work this afternoon.
no INDICTMENT AGAINST GALA
HAN.
In court yesterday afternoon the gram
jury ignored the bill charging Harry Cal
lahan with attempted murder 1t will b
remembered that Callahan was with Clar
1llIlns I'm a house in West Third street
just efore she was found asleep in
room where a gas jet was emitting gas
lie was suspected of having turned tn
gas On but the witnesses introduced b
the State did not prove the charge, henc
the ignoring of the indictment agains
him. These indictments We're returned:
walter T. Davis. carrying conceale
a deadly weapon; Percy Smith, larcen!
two bills, the case having been handed u
3, from the Municipal Court I'm the morning
+, Benjamin y. Ferguson, of Blackbird hun
!, dred. practioing medicine without a !
cense; Michael Grady, buying and sellin
= without a license; DR.. Frank w. Lam
i practioing dentistry without a license.
=, G. r. Barlowe pleaded not guilty 10
charge of larceny, and was found gull
a by jury. which recommended mercy. I
,s was sentenced to three months imprisol
ment Sarah Laws pleaded guilty to Ia
. ceny, and was sentenced 10 three month
also entered a plea Of guilty Of embezzl
, ment, and was sentenced TO six month
imprisonment. Charles Clayton plead
= guilty to larceny. and was sentenced
four months in New Castle jail.
~ Frisby Jones, colored. pleaded not gull
TO charge Of assault with intent TO col
~ nit murder lie withdrew this plea. no
ever. and entered one OF guilty of assau
ca which was accepted. and Jones was Sc
as fenced to one months imprisonment
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