Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-03-23
LEGAL NEWS.
NEW SUITS.

estate of Jesse E. Miller.
Jacob Held. VS. National Transit Co.,
trespass for $500 damages for the laying
of half dozen pipe lines over his farm
| at Glade Run trestle. driving over his
farm and cutting his trees.
L.IB Haffner, assignee of Ferd Fei-
gel, who was assignee of w. ID. Bran
| don rs Mrs. Priscilla Barnhart, james
| NJ. Barnhart, Mary NJ. McGaryey and
others, sci ia on mortgage of $1lO0 on
property in Fairview twp.
GEL. McQuistion, Robert Irwin
and A. q Peffer were appointed view
ers on petition of Adams twp citizens
for bridge over Breakneck creek.
| NJ. J. Sherman, a young Bessemer
passenger brakeman who was tried at
December Court on a charge OF f&b.
made against him by Eta George of
Butler. with the result that the jury
| disagreed, was tried again Friday. Late
Saturday afternoon the jury returned
| verdict acquitting Sherman and putting
| the costs on Butler county.
The will of Stephen L. Markwell OF
Chicora has been probated. letters to
| Geo. P. ladder.
W. J. Broaden has been appointed
| auditor of West SunDury.
]. W. McDeavitt has been appointed
constable of West Liberty, and w. j.
Martin, Tax Collector.
A. O. Weaver, young car-worker,
lately from Scranton, was put on trial,
Saturday, on charge of larceny of Sl4
from Mrs. Isaac Hawk of West ID St,
with whom he boarded. Constable w.
P. Brown. who through an anger hole
| bored in the board wall watched Wea-
yer hide the money, was the principal
witness Weaver has family. he
| was found guilty and sentenced to the
Huntingdon Reformatory. He Is 20
years of age.
John Shanor and Mrs. Lizzie Nailor,
convicted respectively of adultery and
of assisting in an abortion and perjury.
| in the Annie Phillips case, were called
| into Court, Saturday afternoon. Mrs.
Nailor and her attorneys, on inquiry
by the Court stated they had nothing
to say as to why sentence should not be
passed, Mrs Nailor was sentenced in
the perjury case to pay the COSTS fine
of 500 and to undergo imprisonment IN
the Western Penitentiary for year, and
to be forever disqualified from acting as
witness in legal proceedings. A sim
liar sentence, except as to the last
clause, was imposed on the charge of as
sisting in an abortion, and the senten-
ces were passed to run concurrently,
which will permit her discharge on
both sentences within year. On the
part of Shanor, z. L. Ralston plead for
leniency. His sentence was to pay the
costs, 800 fine and undergo imprison-
ment in the Western Penitentiary for
one year. The defendants attorneys at
once filed statements stating that they
had decided to appeal to the Superior
Court and moved to have supercedeas
granted in arrest of each Judgment and
the defendants admitted to bail. Shan
or was placed under $500 and Mrs.
Nailor $500 in each of her cases.
Saturday night a drunken Hunkey
tried to kiss all the girls en- Main ST..
and succeeded in three before arrested.
Next morning hesgot $40 and costs, or
80 days to Jail. with the compliments of
Burgess Kennedy.
Charles Cain was arrested for drunk
enness, Saturday night. He swore after
he had been fined $40, and was taken
back and fined So more.
The case of Com. vs. VIM. M. Foster
of Chicora, a&b, was continued.
August Doerr of Saxonburg was on
Saturday convicted on a charge OF f&b.
In the case of Com VS. Mary Karkoy-
ka, a&b, the prosecutor failed to appear
and the Court directed verdict of ac-
quittal.
The Guaranty s. D. & T. Co. was ap-
pointed guardian of Janet Graham, on
petition of Eliza Graham.
Henry A. Blakeley, who plead guilty
| to charge of agg. a&b, for cutting
John A. Bonner several times with a
knife at Ekastown, was called into
Court, Saturday afternoon, and senten-
ced to pay costs, fine of 500, and un
dergo imprisonment in the county Jail
| for six months.
In the case of Com. vs Wasil Kuhlin,
of West Winfield, a&b, in which the
costs were placed on John Dalock the
prosecutor, Dalock was committed to
Jail until he secured the money.
Letters of administration on the es-
tate of Peter SCHUYLER of Clearfield twp.
have been granted to Joseph Schuler
The will of Peter Snyder OF franklin
| twp. has been probated, leaving all his
estate to his wife, Mrs. Hattie Snyder.
E. A. Smith is in Jail on a charge of
drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
| A subpoena duces tecum was award
ed upon the Penn'a r. r. Co. to pro-
duce in Court on April IA. 1905, the
| freight register of the railroad showing
| goods shipped by the Annex Shoe Co. of
Ohio to s. Dram & Co. Of Playground
Ave.
In the case OF Com. VS. Jake Yorko-
vich, convicted of manslaughter for the
killing of George Keasy, Jr. an appeal
to the Superior Court was filed.
Last Thursday and Friday Henry
Kiester, a young Slipperyrock twp.
| school teacher, had his second trial on a
charge of f6b, in which Pearl Wright,
a pupil of Kiester is the complainant,
and after being out all night the jury
disagreed, two men holding out for ac-
lquittal Kiester had been convicted at
previous Court but asked for a new
trial
Charles Egan, who was alleged to
have taken a revolver from VIM. Camp
bell of Chicora and shot him in the
leg. was tried on charge of agg. a&b
and acquitted.
| George r. Dawson, a car worker, who
left his wife and three little boys and a
$50 board bill at the house of Albert
Hendricks on Pillow st. was found gull
ty of desertion. Mrs. Dawson is also
suing for divorce. Dawson left his
wife because of jealousy of an insurance
agent named VIM. Hunter. Mr.. and
Mrs. Hendricks and Mrs Dawson deni-
ed misconduct. After the desertion the
Children's Aid Society found homes for
two of the boys at Indiana and one at
Houston, Washington county. Dawson
was unable to furnish bail and had lain
in Jail six months before trial. Dawson
was convicted and sentenced to main.
tain his children, pay the costs and give
bail for his appearance at June term.
: At Franklin, Monday Judge Criswel
J granted all the old licenses, and held
} over the new applications.
John A. Ripper of Evans City ha.
filed petition in bankruptcy. which
shows liabilities at $40, 500 and assets ot
$9,525.
Miss Sarah Sylvis, laundress at thu
Hospital, whose home is in Paulton
} Westmoreland county. and Lee Coovert
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