Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-11-28

had never stood before q bar OF justice
10 Delaware before and what he may
have done elsewhere was without the
jurisdiction OF Delaware
When the sentence WAS announced
the Imprisonment being placed at 10
years, Walker blurted out: I" | must
say right here that there is no Justice
in this court" and sat down. Stop
it and stand up" ordered the Chief
Justice, and the prisoner stood up to
hear the rest OF the court's order. lie
recently completed an eight years
sentence 10 the Eastern Peniteniiary
Tor highway robbery.
Richard Coverdale and Walter Thomas,
both colored, pleaded guilty to burglary
tn the house OF Thomas Kinney, at
Porter station, aud wore each sentenced
to stand Ole hour in the piilory, be
whipped with 20 lashes and he I'M.
pfIs1ned one year. s4f&
David, aliaa buck Cunningham, wac
arranged On three indictments, alleging
larceny OF 20 brass Journals from the
Baltimore s. Ohio railroad, 100 pounds
Of copper from the Brandywine Springs
railway and Az brass journals from the
Baltimore & Philadelphia Railroad %.
Walker aud Cunningham were re.
moved from the court DOM hand cuiiod
TO po icemen.
Oyer and Terminer Court adjourned
Saturday morning without day.
Superior Court, in the September
| term, adjourned $50, without day.
In General Sessions Ooui t Def uty
Attorney General Richards, referring to
tho case of William Il. Platt. charged
with deserting his wife, Anna platt,
said be understood tho PARTIES were liy-
ing together. The WON an did not answer
when her nAmo was called, and the
caae was dropped,
When General Sessions Court opened
Monday morning. William b. Stroud of
Mill Greek hundred, member of the
| jury in the Warren u. Thomi son case,
did not respond to his name. Az Mr..
+ Stroud was taken Ill in court on Friday,
it was supposed by the court that he
| was detained at home by his physical
condition. The remaining IL members
OF the JUICY were allowed to leave the
box for time, until the court should
decide how to proceed whether with IL
men OF to add one from the remainder
of the panel.
Severe sentences were imposed on
Percy Smith and Harry Frederick,
against whom were two charges Of
burglary. They are youths who have
/ not made good lenord. Both pleaded
/ guilty to burg ary at the store Of Will
! liam Hammond. Zach must stand one
hour in the pilloy and reoe We 20
lashes Smiths term is for Is months,
| t'redesick's Tor year. Ohief Justice
Loe expressed the hope that their OK
perienoe at the workhouse would make
good men OF them. Attorney General
Herbert II. WARD dropped the other
case agaiust item. ,g4
Samuel Denny, who had been Joined
with Smith and Darlington, in one OF
\ the charges, was released, Mr.. Wnd
saying that he had not entered tho
property. Chief Justice Lore tod
Denny that be had had narrow
escape.
My dear boy" said Judge Lore,
"let This he lesson TO you never
come back he eany more. If you come
again, your rast record will be brought
up ngainst you
r" Now will you be good boys"
Yes" quietly.
Now you oan go where you please. -
Tie Superior Court opened its Noyem
Der term Monday. About 100 casea
are marked for trial, beginning next
Monday and continuing until December
10th. ~. G .e.5 4y.,T
| Chief Justice Lore announced that a
member of the bar (Charles O. Rum
ford died on Saturday night and his
funeral took place yesterday morn
ing at IL O'Clock. The court ad
iourned from Tuesday AFTERNOON until
yesterday afternoon at 3 O'CLOCK to
permit members Of tho bar to attend
The funeral.
Col. benjamin Nields, as the senior
member of the bar, presented to the
court an objection from the bar az to
the opening hour of court which was
recently fixed at 8 o'clock. Mr.. Nields
held that the hour was announcement
and asked Tor q return to the old hour
OF 10 clock
Do you want to go back to the flesh.
pots of Egypt?' asked Chief Justice
Lore.
The puts do not get WARMED up
before l0o clock, answered Mr.. Nields.
Attorney General Ward said o O'Clock
was exceedingly announcements.
The court decided to return to the
old opening hour Of 10 O'Clock. The
sessions will be from 10 to l and :. so to
8 clock.
Harry Armstrong has brought civil
suit against G. W. b. RhoRdes. who
is under indictment on charge of
murderously assaulting Armstrong,
Rhoades was required to furnish special
bail Of $4,000. Frederick IA. Beaston
was accepted as bondsman. Armstrong
and Reoades nre prominent men in the
neighborhood OF Middletown. John
Biggs and e. r. Cochran, Jr., repre-
sent Armstrong, and Levi y. Bird repre-
sents Rhoa,les
. In the divorce case of Aubrey
Thatohe. VS.. Fannie thatcher, the
time for filing the return of Commits
sioner j. Harvey Whiteman was ex-
tended until tho next term, Similar
continuance was granted in the Ander-
son Va. Anderson case.
Upon application OF Harry Emmons,
Edmund Spencer Hellings was ad.
mitted to practice at the bar of New
Castle county, en- payment Of the usual
fee and taking the usual cath, MIR.
Helings iha graduate Of Delaware Col
lege and stud ed also in the University
of Pennsylvania Law Department
In General Sessions Court, it was
announced that BHorace G.. Easthurn
would represent the Stare in tho cass
against Charles HoOd, charged with
cheating,
The court stated that Jurymaa
Stroud, who had sat iu the Thompson
case, wGu,d not be able, because of
illness to return TO court. Counsel for
the State and the prisoner agreed to go
on with il iurymen Thompson is
charged with acting improperly towards
Bertha May Macdonald, aged s years.
W. T.. hurtz, ior the prisoner, who is a