Document 2019-09b:

“Commonwealth vs. John L. Burns”

“Before Eli Horner, Justice of the Peace for the County of Adams, charge of assault and battery July the 8th, 1843, the information of Henry B. Craumer? Of Mount Joy Township in the County of Adams. Miller taken upon his oath…Henry B. Craumer saith that on the sixth day of July last past John L. burns of Cumberland Township made an assault upon this complainant. Did spit in his face and violently struck and beat him upon the neck with a large stick so as to greatly bruise and injure him…