Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
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varies but little with that given
early in May. 1t was expected that
the defense would open late to-day.
Jurors in the case follow: William
II. Wolf, Lykens township; Charles
c. Straw, Middle Paxton township;
T. Clayton Smith, Middletown; Jo-
seph Noble, Wiconisco township;
John H. Reimer, Lower Paxton
township; Rufus B. Keister, Jackson
township; Cornelius J. Blair, Har-
risburg; Daniel Reichert, Pembroke;
Ira Nissley. Pembroke; Harry B.
Halfpenny, Harrisburg; Peter ].
Clouse, Middletown; Frank r. Lam
bert, Millersburg.
Drinking Together
Witnesses in the Evans case said
that he and Gillian had been. drink
ing together on the day of the mur-
der and that they later were seen
near their boarding house in the
lower end of Steelton. One in testify
ing said after the stabbing Evans
stepped on the porch of a house and
holding up his knife gloated over the
fact that he had cut Gillian.
The jury sitting in Judge Nc
Carrell's room to-day went out short
ly after noon to decide the fate of
Edward Moody, Sophie Gilroy, Ar
thur Hilton and Frank Davis, all in
dicted on a charge of attacking and
robbing George Wright early on the
morning of September s. Moody was
represented by James G. HAITI, the
Gilroy woman, colored, by w. Justin
Carter, and Hilton and Davis, both
colored, by Philip S. Meyer. The
attorneys all presented a defense
and at times evidence by the four
on trial became rather confusing as
each of the defendants attempted
to shift the blame for the robbery.
Two of them said that Joe Redd,
colored, indicted with them but a
fugitive, struck Wright and took his
money. But they also said they saw
Moody with Wright's watch. A YER
dict may be reached during the after
noon.
Gets Jail Sentence
Lawrence Lewis, convicted of steal
ing IS and some small change from
Mrs. Cora Oliver, 1904 North Seventh
street, was given three months in
Jail and SIS fine by Judge George
Kunkel, presiding in Courtroom No.
l. Mrs. Oliver said she knew Lewis
took her pocketbook and pleaded
with him to return it. He left the
house and returned that night. When
Lewis went to bed, Grant Oliver
Mrs. divers husband, went for the
police.
Judge Kunkel granted a motion to
continue the case against Daniel
Fry, colored, charged with felonious
assault and carrying concealed dead
ly weapons. Fry, it is alleged,
threatened to shoot Simon Lingle, Of
East Hanover township, a tenant on
farm there. Fry came to the farm
August 20. entering the house and
atxe 20 hak
came down stairs he would shoot
He then went outside, fired several
shots and left. Later he was COR
nered but managed to escape Short
ly afterward as a number OF men
were about to arrest him he stop
ped up to Harry Hetrick, one of
them, and pulled the trigger of the
revolver he was carrying, but the
weapon would not work, Hetrick be-
ing uninjured.
Colonel Frederick NJ. OFT, appoint
ed as counsel for Fry. asked to have
the case continued until a commit
tee can investigate the mental con-
dition of the defendant.
The case against Georges Fickcs,
alias Samuel Snavely, Pleasant View,
held on a charge of indecent assault
preferred by a 14-year-old boy, went
to the jury this afternoon. Bills
ignored by the grand jury at the
morning session follow: Joe McCann,
larceny; Walter Boil, larceny; Au-
gustus c. Allwein, false pretenses
At the morning session of court
Fred c. Miller, attorney for the
prosecutor of ]. Robin Bennett, the
colored lawyer charged with en-
bezzlement, asked Judge Kunkel to
grant a rule on the district attor-
ney to show why the case should not
be settled in the alderman's office.
Judge Kunkel refused the rule and
the gradn jury may act on the bill
of indictment late to-day.