Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-09-19
MANY PLEAD GUILTY
N COUNTY courts
Man Who Broke Into Store
Gets LaSheS and Jail
Term
TWO JUDGES BUSY
DISPOSING OF CASES

lions QtlNtU Anbo AAt lllNu u
business pending before It.
Iodge Conrad was absent this morn
ng and Judge Heasel sat in Court No.
/. and Judge Rice in Court No. q He
llso sat for awhile in Common Peas
Court.
Before Judge Helsel in Room No.
.ho FIRST business was the arraign-
nent Of batch of defendants against
who the grand jury yesterday present
ed indictments The pleas were as
william Miller. colored, breaking
and entering, guilty; Charles Ray,
colored, wife beating. not guilty
Harry Wingate, carrying a concealed
deadly weapon, guilty; Gus Camp,
larceny, not guilty. Robert Mac
Intro. alias Gordon, larceny. not
guilty; Harrison Jones. alias Young.
larceny, not guilty; Edward Ham
mond. larceny. guilty; Edward
Jordan, assault with intent TO COM
NIT murder, not guilty; Joseph Mazzo.
keeping a gaming table, not guilty;
Charles Harper, wife beating. not
guilty: Alfrel Johnson. highway rob
berry, not guilty; William Higgins,
larceny, guilty; Ralph Tllden, operat-
ing motor vehicle without the con-
suit OF the owner. not guilty;
William Howell, escaping from New
Castle County Workhouse, guilty;
Richard Johnson. assault with intent
10 commit murder. not guilty; Della
Jones, Jacob Burton and Mary
Brown, selling liquor without a r.
oense, not guilty; Mary Wright,
larceny. not guilty; Alfred Johnson,
larceny not guilty; Frank Collins,
assault and battery, guilty; Harvey
Russell breaking and entering, not
guilty; Harvey Russell. breaking and
entering, guilty; Thomas J. Nc
Carthy, violation Of age consent law,
guilty; John Mack. violation OF the
age Of consent law, not guilty; Al
len Adams. larceny, not guilty; An
ME Ruley, larceny. not guilty; Frank
Wagner. larceny. not guilty; William
H. Blacklston. assault not guilty; Ed
ward F. Riley larceny guilty; George
Jackson. larceny, not guilty; Daisy
Price. larceny, not guilty; James
Harkins larceny. guilty.
The grand jury today handed uI
the following indictments:
Conspiracy to defraud-JOhn Green
alias John Greenstien, and MAJ
Schwartz.
Operating motor vehicle withou
the consent Of the owner-Johi
Truitt.
Bmbezzlement by bailee-John Jen
kins, Charles Anita.
Neutrality-suspicious. o, Thomp
son, Sr.
Assault with intent to kill-Josep
Jordan, Harry De Shields, Charlie
Palmer. alias Charles Quailes, Ed
ward A. Owens.
Larceny-Carmine Engisco, Nc
Denilino. James Fugiso. Ambros
Halloran. alias Isaac Halloran, Ben
iamin Bell.
Rape-Sydney Williams.
Breaking and ntering-Clarence ]
| Seals. Ellwood Jester.
| Howard Turner. a Negro, was place
on trial before Judge Rice and a lur
charged with highway robbery Of Wi
| liam Matthews, another Negro, at Ele'
enth and Market, streetS, about J.;
o'clock on the morning of May IL.
Matthews testified to the details
the hold-up, and told that the defendai
"stuck gun under his nose" and TO
him TO "come across with what he hs
on him. and took everything he hS
but his clothes. Afterward Turner WI
arrested by Patrolman Barr, and BOT
William and Barr testified that Il
majority of the plumber taken from Il
former was recovered in the pOssessi,
Of the defendant. They also found Il
revolver, with one empty chamber
the cylinder.
la Penne Guenvelr, who was admit
to practice yesterday. prosecuted d
case for the State.
The Jury returned a verdict
guilty and Turner was sentenced
pay a $500 fine, receive ten lashes ne,
Saturday and serve three years in q
workhouse, commencing on May !
1919, when his present twO-year ter
imposed In the Municipal Court Il
carry concealed weapons, will explr
While the court was awaiting the r
turn OF the jury in the Turner cas-
, Judge Rice sat in a case in the Cou
! Of Common Pleas. This was a ca
d wherein two suits for damages again
, the Wilmington and Philadelph
| Traction Company had been entered :
, James Edward Gibson and Eva CT
son. Upon application Of James Saul
, bury, who represented the plaintiff
, the hearing was continued until
| o'clock on Friday morning. when q
court will sit I'm the Orphans COu
! room. on the second floor. Andrew
Gray appeared as counsel for the d
PENDANT corporation.
In court No. (, the first case to
=, 10 trial was that OF Harvey Russell,
Negro, charged with breaking into al
entering the shop Of Max DarOOsky, \
> 23i Market street, and committing Ia
a ceny. He was found guilty by the ia
: without the twelve leaving the box
4 Judge Hcisel sentenced Russell TO 7
y restitution money TO the amount
a $3.50, 20 receive twenty lashes and
serve three years. On a second chal
OF breaking and entering, TO which
pleaded guilty he was sentenced TO I
lisa restitution money, TO receive twl
= ty lashes and TO serve two years.
Harry Wingate, who pleaded gui
a to carrying concealed a revolver, Y
y ordered to pay a fine Of s25 or sp,
&c thirty days in Jail.
u The bail bonds OF James Z. Jor
II Harry p. Reiser and Charles Gre
~ were ordered forfeited, the men
ol appearing when called.
y Judge Heisel started to imp'
,e sentence in the case Of william Il
8 gins indicted for larceny but
request 'of Attorney General Re
hardt. the matter was postponed
til the afternoon session OF court
order that certain statements rega
n ing places where he had worked mil