Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-15
FIND WHAT'S WHAT
M DANIELS JOB
City Court Officer Has Week S
Work Cut Out for Him
at Today's Hearing.


mel had officially adjourned Municipal
Court. this morning. Judge Churchman
had left the room Assistant City Solicitor
Nalloy had lit hIg cigar and called II a
day Mcdaniel scratched his head re-
tlectivclv, eyed batch of othoAal docu-
men lie held in one Inst, and then
solemulv averred that he had some Job
before him
Which was true He's got some time
10 DO it in. il : true. but il 5 none the
less some oh lie Is due TO find out
IN the course Of the next few days just
what : what i'm half dozen cases which
were nullcd over before Judge Churchman
this morning. hut were So mixed up be-
cause al conflict Of evidence that the
court : official Sherlock Holmes who
Is the genial Horace had to be turned
loose on them But It's no new task for
him He's run facts to earth many
and many q time before, bringing AN
orderly reporr to the court from a chaos
OF disagreeIng witnesses and facts
One Of the oddest Of the cases today
was that Of LEROY Jones, colored. in court
on two charges. larceny and assault and
battery Asked To plead, Leroy said non
vut contendere whereupon Judge
Churchman sat up suddenly and eyed
the prisoner IN sheer amaze for mon
vulI contendere is legal phrase pure
and simple, means u do not wish 10 con
tend. and is heard. as n rle only from
the lips Of trained lawyers entering q
non-rcsistance plea for erring clients
w here did you get that phrase
asked Judge Churchman. and the covey
OF LAWYERS who sat in court turned their
gaze on the prisoner. volcelessly making
similar question. Jones replied that he
had studied something about law
He was accused OF having cut man,
but the evidence was such that the court
couldnt tell which really was the aggres-
sor. 50 the job Of finding out was gwen
10 Mcdaniel
Michael McCloskey, arrested on the
charge OF. wIfe-beating hut actually ar
raigned for dlsorderly conduct the charge
being altered by Assistant City Solicitor
Malloy furnished the next section OF
McDannels task.
Mrs McCloskey said that Michael
came 10 their domicile IN Palmer's
Row and raised disturbance. throwing
things around until fork struck her.
and generally misbehaved He was never
sober. she said. although he worked every
dav for the Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
How he does 1t, don't know, she
added. Cross-examined by Michael
counsel. she said he gave her S25 a week,
which kept the table supplied There
were three children, the TWO eldest
working. and II was one of her husband
habits. she said, TO order her and the
oldest bow out of the house Michael
said he only came home, got angry and
threw some things around when he found
no lunch ready
Mcdaniel was ordered to have the
case ready for report on July %. and
Mir. and Mrs McCloskey were told to
come back to court on that date
Howard G. Brennan. charged with
assault and battery upon Howard Std
ham, furnished the next case for Nc.
Dannel
Stidham. with badly-dlscolored eyes
and a cut on the chin, said he and Bren-
nan had gotten into an argument in 4
saloon al Cedar and Brown streets, and
when he went outside Brennan was wait
ing for him with punch that sent him
TO the ground There a curbstone await
junction with his jaw, and he was un-
conscious l5 minutes.
Brennan said Stidham called him
Stacker and denied being responsible for
Stidham's hurts. which made il a case Of
one man S word against the other Where
fore Mcdaniel The case will be adj
Indicated on Mcdaniel report ON Fri
day
Charles Williams, colored, was accused
Of throwing a beer bottle al colored
woman named Claudio Wilson, at Thir-
teenth and Heald streets, the bottle
'bulIseying' Claudies head Charles,
in his defence, said Claude had threatened
to stab him, and had a knife in her
hand Here again was the evidence
conflicting, and Mcdaniel was ordered
to find light for shedding upon IT, 1t, too,
will be adiudicated on Friday
Frank McCray, colored, come next,
accused Of stabbing one John Shippers,
likewise colored, in the arm. More con-
fict between acctIser and accused as to
the facts, and another bit Of investigation
by Mcdaniel
James Ross, colored, was said to have
bowled over William A Smith, also
colored, at Fifth and du Pont streets,
outside a saloon after there had been
little disturbance on the street CON
cerning a drunken man. In this case,
as in the others, Judge Churchman
couldn't get TO the bottom Of the well
wherein truth hid because each side had
different tale to tell So the facts will be
Terreted out by Mcdaniel, for report on
Friday
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