The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-28

Stolen, Driven Into the Woods and
Butchered During the Big Miners
Strike in 1900 - Alfred Long
Charged with the Larceny of What
Was Once His own Household
Goods-Many Verdicts Entered.
For the third time, colf belonging
to Joseph McDonough, of Minooka, yes
terday figured in quarter sessions court.
| During the big miners strike In 1900,
| number of cows and calves, 1t is al
legged. were stolen and butchered in
Minooka and the region thereabouts.
One story has it that no less than
sixteen beeves thus went to fill de-
pleted llrders. They were, as n rule,
driven into the woods, killed and
dressed and the meat carried away in
quarters.
McDonough's calf turned UP missing
one evening. and when search was
made. it's horns, hide and entrails were
found in patch of woods near Polish
settlement at the lower end of Minooka.
One member of the settlement was
tried for the larceny of the calf, and
| another was arraigned on the charge
of having received the stolen meat.
Both, however, were acquitted After
their acquittal, one Alex. Krovotslti
went to Mr.. McDonough and told him
| that William Teriskavage had admitted
| to him that it was he who stole the
| calf.
| Teriskavage was tried yesterday be-
| fore Judge Wheaton in court room No.
/, and Krovotskia repeated the al
| legged confession as he reported it Or
| iginally to Mr.. McDonough. Terisk-
avage, a big, burly, mddle-aged man,
| tearfully told that he never stole the
calf; that he never admitted that he
| stole it, and that at the time of the
! theft he was working in the soft coal
| regions. He was corroborated by sew
eral witnesses in his claim that he was
| absent from Minooka at the time Of the
stealing of the calf,
JURY WAS OUT.
The jury was out at adiourning time.
| Assistant District Attorney w. Gaylord
| Thomas represented the prosecution,
and Attorney P. F. Loughran the de-
| fense.
Alfred Long was tried before Judge
| Ferris in No 2, on the charge of steal
! ing stove bed room suite, parlor
suite and sideboard from Joseph Daily,
of South Scranton. Long was a tenant
Of Daily in 1900. He was in arrears in
| rent to the amount of $24, when he
decided to break up housekeeping. and,
to make the debt good, gave the land
lord a bill of sale for all his household
goods. Shortly afterwards, Long in
vaded his former home at II o'clock at
night and carted off all the goods.
The defense was that Long could not
be found guilty of larceny as he sup
posed the goods were his own, and
man cannot steal his own property. TO
support the averment that he thought
the goods We're his own it was alleged
he did not understand the nature of the
bill of sale. 1t was understood, he al
| legged, at the time the instrument was
signed, that he might have the goods
any time he found a purchaser for
them. When he took them, it was with
the intention of selling them and pay
| ing the rent from the proceeds. The
| jury was out at adjourning time. AS
| sistant District Attorney Louis Grar-
ner and Attorney John j. Murphy rep
| resented the prosecution. Hon. John
p Quinnan appeared for the defense.
In the case of Suzy Faucet, of Price
burg, charged with assault and battery
| on aged Patrick Murray and his daugh-
| ter Anna McHale, the jury said not
guilty in each instance and directed
| the prosecutors to pay three-fourths Of
| the costs and the defendant one-fourth.
sHEMNISKI NOT GUILTY.
A verdict of not guilty, costs divided,
was returned in Jessup case in which
| Joseph Shemniski was charged with as
sault and battery on Stephen Volski.
Munford De Vane, of Grant avenue.
| was returned not guilty of the charge of
stealing $3.50 worth of provisions from
the store of Patrick Mcnamara. on
Jackson street. The costs, however,
were placed on the defendant.
A verdict of not guilty was taken in
the case in which Julia Christine was
charged with assault and battery on
Julian Strauts, upon the showing that
the defendant is dying.
The Chicura- -Hamerick- Weiko-Fed
achak- BedowitZ cases, four in all, grow
ing out of a church war, in Olyphant,
was yesterday erased from the list, At
the last term of court, they We're tried
together and the jury disagreed. Dis
trict Attorney Lewis was aVerse to
piling up several hundred dollars more
expense for another trial of the cases.
and when proposition came from the
attorneys that their clients would with
draw their charges and countercharges
If relieved of the costs, the district at
torney consented to offer no opposition
to a motion to have the costs placed on
the county Accordingly Verdicts of not
guilty We're entered and the costs
placed on the county.
CHURCH WAR.
Chicura and Hamnerck We're leaders
of rival factions in their church.
Chicura was returning from a church
fair at midnight when Hamernick and
three others, so he alleges, set upon
him and beat him into insensbility and
threw him into the river, He was
rescued by parties who were brought to
the scene by little girl who witnessed
the fracas. Hamernick and his friends
alleged that Chlcura assaulted Hamer-
nick with brass knuckles, and that both
fell over the embankment into the
river. They did not deny though that