The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-29
COURT IS ADJOURNED
Grand Jury Finds the County
Home in Fine Shape.
County Received ST. 900 From Sale Of Cotton.
Prisoners Well Cared foI---Cases Dis
posed Of Yesterday.

The Superior court adjourned for this
term yesterday, having completed the
docket of criminal cases whole week
ahead of time. The Grand Jury made its
report and was discharged about a
quarter to two O'Clock.
Accordingly the jurors summoned for
the second week of the March term are
hereby notified that they need rot at
tend.
The report of the Grand Jury was as
follows:
we, the Grand Jury of said county
at this the March term, 1903, of said
county, respectively report to the court
as follows:
That we have passed upon all the
bills sent to us by the Solicitor, and cur
duties in this respect have been per-
formed
I'VE visited the County Home in a
body and found the same in excellent con-
dition. The inmates of the home. about
eighty in number, are well cared for hav-
ing a plenty of wholesome food, plenty
of milk, butter, eggs and the like. Deli
cacies are freely furnished to the inmates
mad they expressed themselves as being
entirely satisfied with the treatment of
the superintendent, Mr.. w. G. Allen.
THE farm at the home is admirably
kept up and vegetables are made suffi-
cient for the inmates, and we found about
200 barrels of corn now on hand, and
fifty head of hogs also on hand There
was about 1900 pounds of pork put up
during the winter. And the superirtend
ent has paid over to the county treasurer
about $4,000 from the sale of cotton made
on the farm last year. The farm owns
thirty head of cattle that furnish suf-
ficient supply of milk and butter.
I'VE examined the work house and
found the prisoners well cared COR and
everything in good condition
I'VE examined the Jail and found that
clean and the prisoners well provided
for
1--WE then examined the court hou.e
and the county offices. The officers ap-
peal to be all excellently kept, and every
thing in proper place.
I'VE however, recommend that the
County Commissioners purchase $50 re-
cord cases for the Clerks office, and that
they repair the floor in the sheriff's office
Weialso recommend that a new index be
provided for the Register of Deeds of
fee.
Respectively submitted,
''R. p. STUART,
Foreman of Grand Jury
The mayhem case against Sewell and
Arthur Turner. who were charged with
starting a fight with Fab Womack, and
then putting out his eye with a stick of
wood was finally settled by the jury
bringing in a verdict of guilty of assault
with a deadly weapon. Sewell was let
off with all the costs, s65, and Arthur,
who struck the blow with the stick, was
fined $50. Both paid up the money
promptly. They seem to be well
thought of colored men, with plenty of
friends.
Courtney letters "a little ten-year- old
negro who was on trial for assault with
intent to commit rape was given twelve
months. with the privilege of being hired
out by the commissioners. Dr. L. P.
Sorrell took the boy off the countys
hands.
Ernest Aston and Ray Dunston were
found guilty of affray with a knife and
a billiard cue. Judgment suspended on
In the case of John Young, alias Pur-
die Young, for the murder of another
negro in House Creek township on Christ
mas day. Solicitor Jones stated that he
would ask for a verdict of murder in the
second degree or manslaughter. Con-
tinued until next term.
John Williams got six months on the
roads for stealing chickens.
Ed and Simon Yellowday were up for
stealing wood from another mans land.
Verdict not guilty in Eds case. and a
misdemeanor in Simons case. Judgment
was suspended on payment of costs and
furnishing bond to abide by the law
Simon had had a claim on the land. from
which he was ousted, and he could not
understand that he had no right to the
wood
Ransom Carpenter, for failure to work
roads Not guilty on appeal from mag
istrate's decision.
John Walker got six months on the
rc~-ds for larceny and receiving