previous next


Hustings Court.

--In Judge Lyons's Court yesterday the following cases were disposed of:

William Fitzgerald, for shooting watchman John Froner, was tried and sentenced to the Penitentiary for five years.

George W. Farrell was put upon trial for stealing Confederate States bonds and two $100 notes from James C. Hunt. After examination and argument of counsel the case was submitted to the jury, which returned a verdict of guilty, and the accused was sentenced to the Penitentiary for five years.

Charles Schwartz, for stealing a horse from Theodore Ganter, was found by the jury not guilty, and discharged.

The Court meets again this morning.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Sort places alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a place to search for it in this document.
United States (United States) (1)
hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
Charles Schwartz (1)
Lyons (1)
James C. Hunt (1)
Theodore Ganter (1)
John Froner (1)
William Fitzgerald (1)
George W. Farrell (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: