The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28

to the jury Thursday morning in the
case of Commonwealth VS.. William
Reilly, who was charged with rob
bing Charles +. Hulse.
The case of the Commonwealth
VS.. Joe Koasch charged with assault
and battery and attempt to rape was
called. Chester A. Garratt, Esq,
was appointed by the court to de-
fend Koasch. These jurors were
selected for the case: Fred Rowe
Palmyra; Charles Cramer, Paupack;
Calvin Schweighofer, Damascus;
VIII Stephenson, Lebanon; George
Beehan, Dreher; Bernard Reilly
Honesdale; Griffin Dumond, Buck
ingham; George Schwesinger, Tex
as; Grant White, Clinton; Jacob
Keller Cherry Ridge; Daniel Acker,
Damascus; Jeff Hoover, Lake. Paul
Olszefski was present as interpreter.
A delay was caused by the alb
sence of the witnesses, and court ad-
journed until after the arrival of the
9.55 ID. & H. train. Constable r.
W. Short, of Canaan, came in on this
train, and explained to the court
that he didn't receive the subpoena,
and that the phones were out of or
der. The excuse was accepted, the
case continued until 10 a. m. Friday,
and the jurors told to take their
seats.
The two cases of the Common
wealth versus Paul Shudis, George
Adanaite, and Samuel Powell, were
combined and the case was tried in
Oyer and Terminer. p. II. Iloff, ESQ,
and p. F. Loughran, Esq, Scranton,
appearing for the defendants, NJ. F..
Simons, Esq, district attorney, hav-
ing charge of the prosecution.
The jury in the case of Common
wealth VS.. William Reilly, of near
Hawley, came in with a verdict OF
mot guilty"
These jurors were drawn to serve
in the Lake Lodore case: Frank War
! field, Berlin; Will Stephenson, Leb-
anon; J w. Andrews, Lake; Jacob
! Keller, Cherry Ridge; Thomas Sal
mon, Honesdale Horton Megargel
| South Canaan Frank Hawkin, Tex
as; John McDavitt, Damascus; Grant
White, Clinton; George A. Smith
Salem; Griffin Dumond, Buckingham
j. d. Rosencrantz, Honesdale.
Upon motion of Attorney p H
Iloff, p. F. Loughran, Esq, of Scran.
| ton, was admitted to the Wayne
county bar especially to try the cases
growing out of the Lake Lodore dis.
| turbance.
In his address to the jury the dis
| trict attorney outlined the events
! that took place at Lake Lodore Aug
| II, when .the Lithuanian church o.
| Providence, had a picnic there, stat
| ing that an attempt would be made
| to connect the defendants with q rio
which occurred at that place on tha
| day, and which two members of the
State Constabulary were called upor
to quell.
Charles Gould, the first witness
| called by the prosecution, stated tha
| he was a member of the state police
and that he was at Lake Lodore Aug
! II. Lake Lodore he described al
"a kind of summer resort where the!
| have amusements and run eXcur
sions." On August 18th, Sergean
! Herbert Smith and he were invited tt
visit Horace Jordan at Lake Lodore
Arriving there about 3 p. M, they
walked around the grounds. Al
| Gas Jordan called his attention to &
| disturbance created by Powell trying
| to strike another man. Friends un
] successfully tried to seIGrato Tie
! combatants Gould told Powell j.
was a police officer and asked him T.
stop his fighting, but he went on q.
! if he didn't care. One of the CON
mitteemen asked Gould to tate Pow
ell off the grounds. He and Smitl
tried to lead Powell away, and re re
| fused to go, Powell being COmrellc
to drag him. When near the station
a crowd of so to 100 attacked Gould
who took out his Jack" and hi
| Powell on the fingers.
According to Gould's story. Powell
seeing his watch hanging out of hi
| pocket pulled it out, and handed it tt
| Paul Schudis, who passed it on t
some one else. Gould then took ou
his revolver and in the scuffle a sho
was fired, Schudis trying to snatcl
the revolver from him. Gould show
ed the jury the scars on his heaC
where he was hit in the scuffle tina
! followed. About twenty men cam
down from the encampmeut Of tn,
Jr. o. U. A. NJ. and with rifles charg
ed the rioters who fed to the specia
train which was to take them home
at p. m.
Upon cross-eXamination, it wa
brought out that Gould was in civil
! ian uniform. Gould admitted havin
| taken one glass of hppr Powell an,