Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-23
THREE JUDGES !,
HEARINGLONG
LIST OF CASES
First Offender Called GETS
Penitentiary Term For
Slashing Wife

Infee judges sitting in as many
courts to-day started a speedy dis.
posal of long list of cases in Sep.
tember criminal sessions. Not les.
than eighteen months and not more
than three years in the penitentiary
was the first verdict pronounced, thai
going to Charles Chayne, 312 Mul.
berry street
Chayne, an express company EN-.
ploye, was charged with brutally at.
lacking his wife while in a drunken
frenzy on August IL, and with cut.
ting her severely in almost a dozer
places, Her face and body are scar.
red for life. One scar extends dag.
ohally down over the face; another
marks where her ear had been al.
most severed and there is five-inct
cash on the left side of the neck. In
lact, 1t matters not from what angle
| one looks at the woman one or the
other of the scars may be observed
Doesn't Recall Assault
Ihese all are in addition to nu.
merous scars on the arms and chesi
! which We're described by the woman
and her physician. Chayne pleaded
guilty but insisted to Judge McCar.
| rell that he couldn't recall much
ABOUT the assault because he haC
been drinking heavily.
aaron SWacker, a one-legged col.
ored fellow who has been giving the
ponce all sorts of trouble in and
| around Seventh and Verbeke streets
was sent to Jail for ten months fol
stabbing Jennie Banks in the left
/ ~ hn
cred. The assault occurred on Sep.
tember after the second quart OF
whisky had been brought into the
Banks house.
Judge McCarrell is conductine
trials in the old Grand Jury room or
the second floor. Judge Albert w
johnson, of the Union-Snyder judi.
clal district is on the bench in Judge
McCarrelPs court and Judge Kunke
IS presiding in the main courtroom
The Grand Jury is holding out in one
of the smaller jury rooms on the
second floor.
Samuel johnson pleaded guilty ir
! judge McCarrells court to a charge
of "feloniously assaulting" Samuel
RlVen, but after some of the testi.
mony had been offered the Judge
thought Johnson couldn't be guilty
OF more than assault and battery anG
| he thought even that should be de.
cided by jury.
In Judge Johnson's court Charles
Coriell, Steelton, was found guilty OF
Stealing $14 from a SteeIton man;
Fred Bright was tried on a charge OF
assault befode a jury which has not
yet rendered its verdict and James
Fergusen now is on trial on q like
charge.
The Grand Jury of which Nicholas
Tack, Seventh ward city, is r@pan,
ignored bill charging Frank sim-
mons with assault and battery.
| Record Start
Judge Kunkel effected the organiza-
tion of criminal court and he broke
all records for getting trials started.
The judges went on the bench a few
minutes after 10 o'clock and at 1914
the first jury was empaneled for the
initial trial, conducted by Judge
Johnson. Half an hour later Judge
McCarreil was busy trying cases and
then Judge Kunkel put the score of
grand jurors to work
Four members of that panel were
excused as follows: Charles Force
Middletown; Park Masters, Steelto L.
in the army; Henry f. Quickel,
Fourth ward and William II. Shert-
zer. First ward, city.
III SdilIH6 over lne peIlJ jury nSL
the court learned that William Gle
land, Seventh ward, is too i'll to serve
Earl ] Eastwright, Eleventh ward, is
in Cuba; S. L. Ellenberger, Lower
Paxton township, is dead; James
Evans, Williams township, is in
Schuylkill county; Henry Gruber,
Royalton, has left the county, Will
liam King, is dead; Harry NJ. Ney,
.Royalton and William r Holbert, Sec
ond ward, city. are in the army and
William X. Smith. Seventh ward. city,
is too i'll to serve. In addition to all
those the court excused one farmer,
William L. Maunn. Susquehanna
township.
Three cases on the Common Pleas
trial list and scheduled to be tried
next week were continued by order
of Judge Kunkel this morning be-
cause the defendants are in the army
and cannot be here to make a de-
fense. One of these suits is the case
of Morris Schondorf against the John
EY Boyd estate. 1t was explained
that the three Boyd children are
executors of the estate and there
fore are the defendants in the court
suit But Jackson Herr Boyd is in
active service in FranEe and his
brother, James Boyd is in active SER
vice in Italy.
The other cases continued for like
reasons are these: Mary Chard VS..
Raymond Fleischer and Ida J. Fack-
ler VS.. John N. Heck, Jr.