| Show to commit rape HE CONVICTS HIMSELF acknowledged playing with a little girl before the court the case of the people vs george hartley the Spring rille rape case wae beffre judge king this forenoon and meet to the jury without argument at 2 i this afternoon after being out thirty minutes the jury returned a of guilty of attempt to commit rape the case was a sickening one and spectators were cot allowed in the courtroom mr tharman prosecuted and wainer boight defended attorney made the opening statement the defendent was living at springville Spring ville last june and little pearl houtz had taken some spectacles to him to be repaired she expected he would mend them while she was there but instead bo went into a bacic room and enticed the child to follow him after getting her in the back room he took heron hia lap and outraged her plarl hontz a very email girl of 12 years of age was the first witness she testified that she nent into hartless Hart leys place of on the aoth of last may to beet her mamman spectacles mr childs and mr there bey left shortly after she came hartey then asked her to go into the back room and she went detailed evidence here followed as to the outrage not fl for publication mr chelda and mr wheeler returned and hartley told her to go home and asked her net to tell what nad happened lapp ened she was very sick that night she was afraid and ashamed to tell her mother the defense did nt cloea examine mrs hontz mother of pearl was then called and testified that she had sent pearl to hartless Hart leys to get some classes repaired that night pearl lad a heavy headache and a high fever she first beard of the affair through her aster some time in january last mr childs remembered that girl wag in hartless Hart leys shop last may witness tried the door and lound it cocked he it and found hartley and a little girl in the back room the little girl cams out first and hartley followed her he said to hartley what in thunder are yon doing with that little girl in the back room and hartley answered that he was showing her some flowers on cross witness said that be had a spring lock on the door mr wheeler remembered seeing the little girl come out of the back room of the shop and as she came out she pulled her clothes around from the right side and ant them between her limbs joe hall testified that he heard hartley state at the time he was arrested that all of the charge waa cot true that he hartley had only played with her and did nothing e se marshal stated he bad arrested hartley and when he read the warrant I 1 t him hartley said it all true upon his baing asked whish part was crue he said he bad only played with ahe girl pearl hontz was recalled and said she did not her underwear before going out and she pulled her clothes between her limbs to keep her underwear horn falling prosecution hanky was called for the defense de fenEe 1 he commenced business in in 1891 pearl hoelz came into hia shop for and he was in the back room S ie touched the door and u locked ho admitted that he with the girl just then clr anilde came to the front door and the little girl got down the prosecution began asking about other rapo cases but the court interposed and there was no cross examina tion geo was in the agop when hartley was arrested he did not hear a bv defendant THURSDAY AFrE KNOON in the case of J T broadbent Broad benl vs the brooklyn canal company the court decreed that the defendant bo enjoined from water in their canal at a greater depth than eleven inches where the said canal passing the property of plaintiff and that a permanent monument be erected the matter ot damages waa taken under consideration antil this morning when the court fiill announce its further anmon hansen formerly of norway but drw of fountain areen was admitted to jamea Binion eon and patar hansen from maroni were arrain ged on two indictments charging grand larceny in i each case and pleaded not guilty to both charges A E was appointed to defend them trial was s for march ath baekus christeneen of cianti wai arranged on a indictment indic ment with the crime of fornication alleged to have been committed with roselle on december HP pleaded guilty and judge king vai about to pronounce sentence when he was by thurman who asked that the case b dismissed ag the parties bad recently i married and produced the certificate of that fact an order was made dia missing the caad the jary in the caal of the R G W vs came into court and returned a verdict for defendant of no cause of action the gemin mining company ve john beck continued date |
