Hustings Court, Wednesday, May 12th.
--Present
Recorder Caskie and a full beach.
The following parties were examined and sent on for trial before
Judge Lyons for the offences set opposite to their names, viz:
Patrick Kurby, for receiving a large lot of
dry goods stolen from
John C. Shafer on the 17th of March;
John Cockrane, for stealing a horse, valued at $100, from
Thomas Barham, on the 2d day of May;
John Murphy, for cutting stabbing, and wounding
Mathew Callahan, on the 20th day of April;
James Hill, for assaulting Jacob Holder, on the 5th day of May, and by force taking from him one pistol, valued at $50, and $25 in C. S. notes;
Henry Chadwell, for stealing a horse, valued at $100, on the 2d of May, from
William S. Kemper;
Edward Murphy, for entering, in the night time of the 21st of April, the storehouse of
Walter D. Blair & Co., and stealing a lot of groceries, including 15 lbs. of tea, valued at $80.
Frances Hueston was examined for receiving, on the 25th of April, several pieces of jewelry, stolen from
James P. Tyler, and was acquitted; also,
Patrick Jacobs, for having on the 11th December stolen from
Morris Levy a gold watch, valued at $80, and
Cornelius McNemara, for having on the 12th of March received certain stolen articles from some person unknown.
In this case, the acquittal of the prisoner resulted from an exception taken by his counsel to the certificate of the
Mayor sending on the case, which the
Court quashed, and discharged the accused.
The case of
John W. Sartain and
Gideon B. Thompson, for robbing
Wm. Rouse of $40, in December last, in Screamersville, was continued until the June term of the
Court.
The case of Carter Padlock, charged with counselling, aiding, and abetting
Sartain and
Thompson in committing the robbery on
Rouse, was continued until the June term of the
Court on account of the absence of material witnesses
Lucy Stearn was fined $10 and costs for allowing her servant Margaret to go at large contrary to law.
