Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-09-24
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NEW SUITS

G. C. Shira VS. Butler Boro, trespas:
for $1,000 damages for injury done his
property at Locust and Elm Sts ,during
a late flood. His cellar was filled with
water.
Mary 81. Straw, admir-, va Alex Dun-
bar, attachment execution on property
in the hands of the Producers & Rein
, ers Oil Co.
School District of Parker twp VS. Jos
, h VALLEY, assumpsit for balance of
1922 10 claimed to be due from VALLEY
as tax collector.
Julia Ann Zyarr VS. Michael Larch,
trespass for $1,000, for the alleged utter
ing of words in the Hungarian language.
accusing the plaintiff of being disrep-
utable person
Myrtle Feigel VS. Mrs. Elizabeth Fei-
gel. assumpsit for 1852 IA, with interest
from March II. 1902 The plaintiff is a
daughter of the defendant, who is the
widow of John Feigel. decd, of Look
ont Ave. The plaintiff states that on
March 15, 1902. on her coming of age
she received $l952 IA from her guardian,
J. W. Hutchison, and gave it to her
mother who deposited $1,000, but kept
7 1862 IA on pretense of wanting to bor-
row it for a time. and has never repaid
it.
Lula Feigel VS. Elizabeth Feigel. Myr-
tie Fejgel, Fred Feigel minor, and j.
w. Hutchison, guardian of minor. sum-
mons in partition for property on ).
Main St, Butler, bounded south by
Wuller heirs, west by Butler County
National Bank and north by Mrs Sloan.
Ellis Hesselgesser vs August Sell, tres
pass for $4,000 damages, for slanderous
words alleged to have been uttered in
the presence of G. w. McEwen and
Henry Krug.
Mrs. Elizabeth Feigel VS. Wenzel W.
Walker and Lulu Feigel. summons in
| replevin for one parlor suit, l leather
rocker upholstered rocker, 1 willow
rocker, / sewing machine and other fur
niture to the value of $780, Walker, it
appears, has been keeping company
with Miss Feigel, and it is said they
tried to take the goods and elope to Den
yer, but were stopped at the station.
The goods werei billed for Los An
! geles, Cal. Walker has been arrested.
| CRIMINAL NOTES
On Saturday pleas of nolle coptendre
| were entered by the defendants in the
cases of Com We r. A. Mccartney, fur
nishing liquor without license; b Wen
del and John Sproul. same. Sentence
on Sprouli was suspended until Decem-
| ber Wendell and Mccartney are man
ayers of the Lyndora Pharmacy. They
were called for sentence and each got
$3.50 fine and costs.
The Elk Brewing Co. of Kittanning
and II. A. Smith, their agent were con-
victed of selling liquor without license,
and motions for new trials were made.
The offences occurred at West Winfield.
B. V. Neubert and the other directors
were acquitted of the charge against
them.
Al Hauck plead guilty to charge of
gambling, and was fined $50 and sent TO
Jail for 10 days.
John Dunn plead guilty to gambling
and sentence was suspended.
On Monday the jury in the case of
Com. VS. Geo Ebert, desertion, returned
a verdict of not guilty, and the defend
ant and the prosecutrix, his wife, Lucy
E. Eberts, each pay half the costs
Ebert is nearly 20 years of age and is a
well known farmer living east of Mars.
The prosecutrix is his second wife and
several years his junior, and she has
son with whom the old man could not
agree Ebert testified the son jerked
him out of bed at 2 a. IN. and threatened
to shoot him. Mrs, Ebert claimed that
Ebert sold their farm. worth $1,000 to
his son for $500, and the son resold it
and with the proceeds bought two brick
houses in Pittsburg, which he holds in
trust for his father They broke up
housekeeping and Mrs. Ebert and her
son are living in Mars.
Siegmond Starr was conyicted of sell
ing liquor without license.
w. E. Hays, agent for a wholesale
grocery house of Cleveland, O., who
was taking orders for whisky a few
days ago, was tried. Monday. on a
charge of contracting in liquors for a
nonresident firm, and convicted. His
attorneys claimed the law under which
he was CONVICTED was unconstitutional
and moved for new trial.
Sigmund Stern, an aged Jew, who
travels for wholesale liquor house was
convicted of selling liquor without
license and contracting the sale OF
Liquors for nonresident and nom
licensee subject to the courts ruling on
the Act of 1875.
Jos. McCarty of Erie was put on trial
Tuesday on charge of assault with In
tent to rob. He was caught with his
hand in Marvin Begg's outside coat
pocket at the Barnum q Bailey Show.
The jury stayed out all night ON the case
and returned verdict yesterday of
guilty, and recommended to the mercy
of the Court.
Harry Bickel was put on trial Mon
day on charge of a&b with intent to
commit rape and next day was found
guilty. The defense hired local de-
tective to break down Miss Stnbble's
reputation for truth and veracity but
succeeded in getting only two witnesses
and these were offset by witnesses
called in the Court Room.
Lewis Raphael, a wholesale liquor
dealer, was placed on trial, Tuesday,
for contracting to sell and selling liquor
with out license in Butler county and
was convicted.
The recognizance of Andrew Dunn
was declared forfeited and the case re-
spited till December.
The case of Com vs. Joseph Richard
son was continued until December
The cases against Ella and Flora
Silica, the coochie dancers and George
Hammond of the Flora Dora show of
carnival fame were settled by the de-
PENDANTS paying the costs,
Henry Hare plead guilty to a charge
OF furnishing liquor and was sent
to Jail for 80 days and find $50 and
costs.
]. f. Burns was placed on trial yester-
day on a charge of larceny Of bull pup
from Plum Timblin and found guilty.
Robert Frazier was placed on trial
yesterday for furnishing liquor to man
of known Incorporate habits George
White) and found guilty.
Charges of fraudulently obtaining
boarding and absconding have been en-
tered against Orie and Raft Snyder.
The last case tried at the present
court was that of Com VS. Clarence
| Weigel of Zelienople, desertion. Mrs.
Weigel is the daughter of A. A Gold.
She testified that her husband habitual-
ly beat and abused her, that he forced
her to take medicine, and did other
things which were not right, which
forced her to leave him. Weigel is a
young blacksmith. He denied his wife's
charges, said he was anxious for her to
return to their home. was willing to
provide for her and treat her right. He
| was deeply moved and went during the