The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-10-14

o Ericn and Ralph Levy appeared for
| Field. When the first witness was
called Attorney OBrien developed the
fact that the commonwealth could not
prove specifically that the iron found
| in the possession of Field had been
stolen and had been purchased by him
| from the thieves knowing that 1t. had
| been stolen and a verdict of not guilty
was ordered by the court. Similar
action was taken in the case of Field
charged with neglecting to keep the
books in which junk dealers are re-
qured by law to make record of
purchases of junk.
| PARKER NOT GUILTY.
A verdict of not guilty was also
taken before Judge Mcclure in the case
of Joseph Parker. charged with receiv
ing stolen goods by Lieutenant of
Police A. w. Palmer. Parker was
found with lot of iron in his wagon
on North Main avenue one day some
months ago and was arrested. 1t was
impossible, however, for the common
| wealth TO make out the offense of re-
ceiving stolen goods and the court
directed a verdict of not guilty.
| BY agreement of the parties the trial
of Anthony Dunleavy who is charged
| with perjury by Robert Wilson of the
Municipal league was continued until
! the next term. The case Of Otto Staub,
| Adam Brown. Joseph Thompson and
| Thomas Miller charged with felonious
wounding by Martin Langan was also
continued because Of the absence of one
Of the defendants.
Dominck Burke. of Carbondale. did
| not appear to answer a charge of Grim
inally assaulting Hattie Jeffrey and his
| bail was forfeited and a capias issued
| for him.
| Lawrence Gillen pleaded guilty. be-
| fore Judge Kelly, to stealing number
OF articles from the Office of S. S. Jones,
of Carbondale. He was sentenced to
| three months in the county Jail.
Herbert Brennan, a Carbonate boy
aged IL years. pleaded guilty to the
charge of burglarizing the stores of c.
W. Seamans and r. A. Bell, of Carbon
dale. He will be sent to a reformatory
Mrs. Elizabeth Blackmore, of Carbon
dale. was tried on a charge of stealing
a revolver from George w. Smith. She
denied the theft and. at all events. said
the weapon belonged to her husband
The verdict was not guilty.
BAIL FORFEITED.
The bail of Martin May was forfeited
and a capias was issued for him be-
cause he did not appear to answer a
charge of forgery, preferred by Will
lam Reese. The case against Michael
and John Farence, who We're charged
with aggravated assault and battery
by Anthony Brown, was stricken from
the list, the defendants having left the
jurisdiction of the court. A verdict of
not guilty was taken in the case of b.
JOsephson. charged with assault and
battery, the prosecutor, Adam Ervan-
icky, not appearing.
Catherine Peel was tried before Judge
Kelly on a charge of having obtained
sos worth of furniture from Redding-
ton by representing that she owned
property. Her defense was "a denial of
false representations. The jury was out
at adjournment.
Thomas White was convicted, before
Judge Newcomb, of the larceny of a
crate of plneapples from in front of
Roberts commission house, on Lacka-
wanna avenue, on the morning of July
% last, The defendant was engaged i'm
the huckstering business and on the
morning in question, according to the
story of the prosecution, stopped his
horse and wagon opposite Roberts
place of business, walked across the
street, picked up the crate of pine
apples and carried them to his wagon.
His actions were noticed by Roberts,
who called an officer and had him
take the defendant in charge. The de-
fendant testified that he had arranged
for the purchase of the pineapples be-
fore taking them. His testimony, how
ever, did not agree with the statement
alleged to have been made by him al
the time of the arrest. Attorney II. l..
Levy was assigned as defendants coun-
sell and the commonwealth case was
conducted by Mr.. Thomas. A fine of 81
and ten months in Jail was the sem
tence imposed
REMINDER OF QUINN MURDER.
The Quinn murder case was recalled
by case tried before Judge Newcomb
during the afternoon, when Joseph
lima, Stanley Noyakofski. Stanley Kill
inski, Frank Kimiyiski and John Wis
owosk We're charged with feloniously
wounding Frank Spple in John Quinn's
saloon on Keyser avenue, ON the night
of April ). Ii was only a few weeks
later that Quinn's sister, Mary, was
murdered in a most foul manner a short
distance from her home.
The allegation of the prosecutor is
that on the night in question, while
trying to remove his brother-in-la
from Quinn's hotel, he was attacked by
the defendants with clubs glasses and
chairs. His ribs We're broken and he
had wounds about the head and face.
There was no direct evidence save