Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1905-11-17

addresses were made that have been
heard in the Court House for many
days.
The Court charged the jury and tho
latter retired shortly after s O'Clock.
Joseph Gusaok. boy nineteen years
OF age. accused Of stealing coke from
the Reading Iron Works, pleaded guilty
to the charge. Sentence was suspend.
ed, the boy. who can neither read nor
write, being plainly an object of much
sympathy. Before discharRing the
boy Judge Staples gave him some very
good advice, urging him to try to learn
to read and write to the end that he
may become a useful member of so.
ciety.
TUESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
The term of Court. which all thought
would occupy the entire week lis prao::
tically over. When Court oonvenes
at o'clouk this morning. 1t will be
| merely to receive the verdict of tho
jury in the case of Common wealth W.
Elmer Halderman. which was still out
on adjournment last evening and to
transact some other business carried
over from yesterday. At half past 3
O'Clock yesterday when the last Case
went on trial the Court discharged all
the jurors except shose engaged. The
civil cases have all been continued.
This has been rendered necessary,
Judge Staples explaining. by reason of
the fact that William Kase West, ESQ.,,
who is interested in all the civil cases
except one, is confined to his homo by
illness with no prospect of being able
to attend COURT during the present
week.
Court convened Tuesday morning
at 8 O'Clock and business moved on at
the same rapid pace that characterized
Mondays proceedings. The two juries
which retired on Monday were each
ready with a verdict.
In the case of Commonwealth ".
Francis Woll a verdict of guilty on
the second count was returned. but
mercy of the court. Iu the above Case
a motion for arrest in Judgment aud q
new trial was granted returnable at
the next term of Court.
In the case of the Common wealth
VS.. John Seitz and Ralph Hahn, tho
jury found John Seitz guilty on the
third count of the indiotmt mt, which
related to furnishing instruments to
prisoners for the purpose of aiding
them to escape. Ralph Hahn was 40.
quilted.
In the case of Seitz the Court pro-
nounced the following sentence: That
John Seitz pay the costs OF prosecu-
tion in the case, a fine of ten dollars
to the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania, for the use of the county of
Montour and that he unde rgo imprison
ment in the Eastern PeniteutiaIy In
the City of Philadelphia at separate
and solitary confinement at labor for
a period of two years to be compu ted
from yesterday and to stand commit
ted until the sentence is complied
with.
The indictment against John Sees.
in which the charge was murder. wae
quashed ON motion of Edward V. Am
erman, attorney for Sees. Mr.. Am.
erman contended that the indictment
was illegal in that Mrs. Sees, wife of
the defendant, had been permitted to
testify before the grand jury and that
in the eyes of the law the wife in such
cases proves an incompetent witness.
The District Attorney resisted the
motion, explaining that the wife had
been called to testify before the Grand
Jury contrary to his counsel and that
he had prepared second bill in which
the wife's testimony was eliminated
and which the grand jury the same
week returned as true bill. The first
Indictment the District Attorney ask.
ed the Court to quash.
The Court took the view that mas.
much as the second indictment was re-
turned by the same grand jury as the
first. that il one was irregularly OBJ.
tanned (Which seemed to be admitted)
the other also was, as the impression
made upon the minds Of the Grand
Jurors by the wife's testimony when
the first bill was presented necessarily
fingered and had its effect when tho
second bill was acted upon. The Court
therefore. granted Mr.. Amerman's
nd lao1ora1 hn iokr
quashed. An order, however, was made
by the Court holding John Sees In
custody until the District Attorney
has an opportunity to present another
indictment.
David Barrett, who with Elmer
Halderman was indicted for assault
and battery with intent to rob and as
sault and battery with intent to kill.
committed at W. H. N. Walkers no.
tel on the 3rd of July last, pleaded
guilty. The case therefore went
on trial with Halderman alone as de.
fendant. He was represented by Thorn.
as o. Welsh, Esq.
All the circumstances attending this
case have been fully aired in these
columns. The task that devolved up.
on the Commonwealth was to establish
the identity of Barrett's aooomplioe
on the night of the attack as Elmer
Haldermsn, the defendant. The fol-
lowing witnesses were called by the
Common wealth: W. H. N. Walker,
Richard Mccormick. Clarence Ephlin.
Arthur Walker, Samuel Haas, George
Orossley and Officer Jcnn Grier Voris.
The most of the witnesses thought they
saw a resemblance between the man