mMANHEIM ASSAULT CASE IS GIVEN AIRING HER!ninZachariaa Thoman, Defendant, and Jacob L. Miller, Prosecutor, Must Divide Costsl-i- A hearing wa ; held in the office r,f Justice of the Peace L. I). .Sell last evening in the case of Zachar-ias Thoman charged on oath of Jacob L .Miller with assault and battery r, on his minor son, Luther C. Miller. i, After the hearing Squire Sell dis-e charged the defendant directing 'hat he and the prosecutor were to each pay one-half of the costs. Harvey A. Gross, York, represented the prosecutor, while C. A. Grote, Man-heim township, represented the de-f fendant. Jioth Thoman and Miller are from Manheim township.The altercation, it developed, oc-e curred on January 3, when Luther r Miller, 17, was driving a tearn to b a store with milk. Thoman was al- '( - so delivering produce to the store . ind, it is claimed, wanted to pass * ; young Miller on the road. Miller,; it was stated, refused to let him pass j i and switched Thoman’s mules on the , nose. The two met at the store lat- 1 , er and exchanged words and a few \ blows. Men at the store stopped I the fight and the legal action fol- 1 -'■ed. ]Fourteen witnesses were at the I hearing last evening, the major) y \ of the testimony being offered in i Pennsylvania “Dutch.” ij