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About
the South Danvers Wizard
Overview:
Jan.- July 1864
About
South Danvers (Peabody), Massachusetts
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South Danvers Wizard, 2/10/1864,
p. 2/3
SUPERIOR COURT: JUDGE MORTON PRESIDING – Grand Jury findings from 2/1/1864.
Crimes range from adultery, larceny, to lewd and lascivious cohabitation.
The majority of cases are for liquor nuisance.
South Danvers Wizard, 5/4/1864, p. 2/3
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT – “This Court – Judge Metcalf – came in Monday
to hear motions, libels for divorce and the like, which do not require
a jury. The juries are notified that they need not come in till week
from next Monday, when several civil cases, mostly from the northern part
of the county, will be taken up.”
South Danvers Wizard, 5/4/1864, p. 2/3
SUPERIOR COURT – “The criminal term of this Court will commence in
Newburyport next Monday. The trials will not probably begin till
the week after.”
South Danvers Wizard, 5/18/1864, p. 2/1
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT - “This Court, Judge Metcalf, came in
on Tuesday lst. Two insurance cases from Haverhill were tried.
The Full Bench will come in on the 26th instant,
to try Horace L. Davis, again, for the murder of Mr. Breed of Lynn.”
South Danvers Wizard, 6/8/1864, p. 2/4
WITNESSES IN COURT – “Those who have attended the trials in our courts,
especially as jurymen, have often observed the rude manner with which witnesses
are treated by counsel in cross-examination….”
South Danvers Wizard, 6/15/1864, p. 2/2
SUPERIOR COURT – “The June term of the Superior Court is sitting at
Salem, - Judge Putnam presiding. George J. Winchester is the juror from
this town, and David Staples from Danvers.” |
