Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-09-18
MANY SENTENCES
IN COUNTY COURTS
Docket Largest 10 Years is
Cleared OF Many Cases
on Second Day
RETURN TRUE BILL
AGAINST FITZPATRICK


Persons who imagined the new Joint !
city and county building would be ade-
quate for many vars to come pom
dered yesterday and today when tho
county's portion Of the building was
jammed because Of the September
Court Of General Sessions. Corridors
were overrun with men and women
and courtrooms were crowded. There
was not anywhere near enough space
20 take care Of the throng Of this rec
Ord-breaklng term OF courts. With two
hundred persons accused OF various
offenses, and nine hundred witnesses
summoned by the State, the attorney
generals department and Clerk OF the
Peace Wright and his assistants are
working day and night 10 keep up with
the dOckets and necessary records.
Some idea Of the scope Of cases TO be
disposed OF at the present term can
be gathered from the fact that the
grand Jury established a new record
when 80 returned flfty-one indictments
sterday-twenty-1ve In the morning
and twenty-six IN the afternoon. tho
witnesses having been previously ex-
amlned by Attorney-General Relnhardt
and Deputy Attorney-General Green and
ready TO appear before the grand jury.
and bills also having been prepared
in those cases for the grand Jury.
Ii is altogether likely that three
courts may be convened simultaneous
~ 20 dispose Of some OF the accumu-
lated cases. II had been planned 10
have two branches Of General Sessions
a. Nha Ina fuA hrnw,nh
may be commenced, n enough jurors
by Clerk Of the Peace Wright
which they are TO sit.
Last week Deputy Attorney General
Green examined no less than 900 wit
nesses. or the cases to be heard. there
are six in which the defendants arc
accused Of murder. II all go TO iuries
they Will consume the better part OF
two weeks. Working two sessions q
day. 10 Is hardly likely that Genera
Sessions and oyer and Terminer car
get through with their criminal bust
ness In less than two weeks.
AS soon as court opened this morn
ing the following Arrangements and
pleas were made:
duiAh INllAlls ldlIthef hNN kQlAtN
Charles Williams, larceny, guilty; Al
sommerton. larceny, not guilty; John
Williams. larceny not guilty; Vim
cenzo Narsato, larceny, not guilty; john
Johnson, larceny, not guilty; Leclair'
Green, guilty; William II. Jackson
highway robbery, not guilty.
Charles Williams. Negro, one Of The
two Of the first batch TO plead guilty
stole a coat from a railroad man. Judgl
Conrad questioned him and found on
that he was from New York, that h
was IS years old and had been in Della
ware nine months. He was sentenced
TO four months in the workbouse anI
to pay the costs OF prosecution. Lashe
were RENTED, Il being Williams frs
offense, so far as the court could FIN
out.
LeClaira Green, a white man, VIII
likewise had pleaded guilty, ha
stolen 5000 pounds Of iron, valued
one cent a pound. He was sentence
10 twenty lashes and a year In tn
workhouse.
These cases having been dispose
OF. moro prisoners were brought u
for arrangamnt as follows: Paulin
smith. colored, larceny. not guilty
Ralph Pierce, colOred, highway roll
berry, not guilty; David Dyer, higf
way robbery, Howard Turner. colol
ed. highway robbery. not guilty
Dennis Perkins. highway robber,
not guilty; John Devine. bveakin
and entering, not guilty; Jamos Mu
bern, breaking and entering, NJ
guilty.
Court then proceeded TO the tri'
OF the prisoners who had pleade
not guilty.
The first case called was that
Thomas Cook, accused Of larceny, an
went to Court Room No. 2 to be tris
before Judge Heisel. while Judt
Conrad sat IN Room No. l..
The first case before Judge Conri
was that Of John Smith, your
white man. accused of stealing
from the pocket Of a coat belonging
James Haggerty. Smith was -four
guilty and sentenced to six month
Imprisonment.
Manning Drake. accused OF larcen
appeared in the uniform OF IN infa
tryman. He changed his plea fro
not guilty to guilty. Attorney Gener
Reinhardt said Drake had gone into
restaurant and taken pocketbook
which was a girls ring valued at
The prisoner is but 10 and Mr.. Rel
hardt thought It would be well
give him another chance, as he
ready has been in custody since Iu
p. He said he came from TuckertC
y. J. Judge Conrad parOlod
young man under charge of his S
ter-in-law. Mrs. Ella Drake.
Nincenzo Narsato. accused Of
larceny Of 81 from an automot
chauffeur named Harry Lewis
The jury found NarsatO guilty wi
out leaving the box and he was s.
fenced to two years in the wo
house.
Thomas d. Myers. a middle-al