The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-06

Nounty detective Inl!llpS Nlln keep
ing tiDpling house.
| The defense is that the beer which
| the commemorative witnesses saw at
| the Gaul home in September was beer
which party of young men from
| West Scranton sent there To BE- stored
| until sunday. when they We're to have
| u clam bake in the woods near Gauls
| home. The principal witness for the
| defense, William James. when called
| TO corroborate this story would not
| say positively that It was in Septem-
| ber he and his friends had the clam
| bake, but he thought il must have been
| in September because he remembered
| they picked blacltberries along the
road as they We're going out To the
scene of the claim bake.
Just as soon MS the defense closed,
| District ATTORNEY Lewis called to the
| stand Attorney f. II. Holgate. of La
Plume, and had him testify that black
| berries ripen about July IL and that
| before the end of August they are all
| gone.
Attorney Herbert L. TAYLOR. counsel
| for the defense, was in Il dilemma. but
| he was not IN ii long. Taking the
| stand himself. he testified that he
| knew all about blackberr!es and their
| habits and that With all due respect
! to his brother Holgate's knowledge OF
| country things. he would have TO say
that he was all wrong concerning the
| time that rlpe blackberries flourish. 1t
| was not until well along in August
| that blackberries ripen, Mr. Taylor
! avoWed, and they We're TO be found
| in plenty until the close of September.
PROSECUTIONS CLAIM.
The case was on trial at adiournins
| time. The prosecution claims that
Gaul established hole-in-the wall
f, just across the city line. in Ransom
| township, on Blind Mans road. lead
! ing up to Eald Mount. in the locality
recently come to be known by the So
| briduet of Mt Dewey.
EXCounty Detective Leyshon and
John Grifliths testified to having pur-
| chased three bottles of beer from Gaul
| in September of last year. James
| Spencer. a neishbor. told of having
| sent his 1-year-old daughter there for
| beer and that she secured II. The
| little girl was put on the stand to tes-
! tiiy to having purchased the beer, hut
Judge Edwards would not let her tes-
Gaul admitted that there WAS beer
| on his premises When cX-County De-
! tective Levshon and the others We're
| there, but he denied having sold any
| to them. The beer WAS what was left
over from a clam bake. 1t was given
| to him by the party conducting the
| clam bake and he in turn treated the
| parties who claimed they bought it.
InhN 90 -
! street, plead guilty of selling bottled
| beer without a license. He stated to
| the court that he was given to UNDER
stand by the wholesaler from whom
he purchased the beer. that he was
! entitled to sell as an agent of the
| wholesaler. under the wholesaler's L.
cense. His attorney, eNDstrict At
! torneT John r. Jones, plead for n
/ suspension Of sentence on the ground
! that Hobrowitz WAS honestly mistaken.
Judge Edwards took the plea under
consideration.
AWFUL DEPRAVITY.
TWO cases of awful deprovitv were
among those heard Yesterday. In the
one, Frank Horn. of North Main ave
nue., is accused by Mrs. w. 3. Duggan,
agent of the associated charities. with
crlmnally assaultlng his own two
pretty little daughters, aged respect
| lively eleven ana nine years. The
+, jury was out at adjourning time. In
! the other case. the defendant, William
/ Connolly, was charged with criminal
assault on Annie Palasl<ie. aged nine,
and Lizzie Burke. aged eleven. The
crime was committed in his own house,
~ al nv ry;,r
ing them pennies. The story of the
little girls acquitted him of the charge
| of the first count of the Indictment. but
left no doubt in the minds of the jury
! as to his being guilty of the lesser
counts. He was returned guilty of at
/ tempted criminal assault ana simple
! assault and battery.
The Jury in the case of John Ward,
charged with larceny by bailee of n
diamond, by 3. S. Wukeman, reported
to court, yesterday morning, that they
found the defendant not guilty
In the case of Morris L, Benowltz,
charged by the Central Pennsylvania
Brewing company with obtaining goods
by false pretenses, Judge Newcomb dl-
rected the jury to find Il verdict OF
not guilty. the prosecution having
, failed to prove that the defendant was
not the owner of the real estate he
claimed to own. The matter Of costs
was left TO the jury and they were
promptly placed ON Benowit2
THE PLEADED GUILTY.
George ana Edward Cordner and
John Flaugherty plead guilty to the
charge of stealing bond" wire from
the tracks OF the Scranton Railway
| company near Simpson. in December
/ last Nerdicts of not guilty were
thereupon taken in the cases in which
the Cordners We're charged with ma
licious mischief, and the trio with con-
spiracy The COrdners cut the wires
from the rails and loaded thep in n
wagon. Together with Flaugherty
| they started for Jcrmyn early in the
morning 10 sell their plunder to n
junk dealer. Constable Michael Nor
an however. intercenred them. and
! took them into CUSTODY
A verdict Of not guilty was taken
in the case i'm which George CoWell
was charged with the larceny of n
| harness from Ernest Nogelbochen, OF
Dunmore, the parties having effected n
settlement out os court.
Thomas Seoyen, footman at the Riv-
orside colliery, Is ON trial before Judge
I Newcomb, on the charge of assaulting
/ Louis Bovalath. II miner Scover ad-
| mits that he had tussle with BoVal-