Foreign Corporations required to make Returns, without Suit, Corporations required without Suit to file Certificate of Condition, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT, COMMONWEALTH BUILDING, BOSTON, January 16, 1895. To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives. In compliance with section 9 of chapter 17 of the Public Statutes, I submit my report for the year ending this day. Cases requiring the attention of the department during the year to the number of 549 are tabulated below: Indictments for murder,. Extradition and interstate rendition, Informations at the relation of the treasurer and receiver-general, Applications for informations considered and refused, . Petitions for abolition of grade crossings, Voluntary proceedings for dissolution of corporations, Collateral legacy tax cases, Miscellaneous cases, Returns of insurance companies enforced without suit, INDICTMENTS FOR MURDER. Indictments for murder pending at the date of the last annual report have been disposed of as follows: THOMAS A. BROWN of Boston, indicted in Suffolk, May 6, 1893, for the murder of Catherine Brown, otherwise called Catherine O'Mealley, at Boston, April 4, 1893, was arraigned May 22, 1893, and pleaded not guilty, and Messrs. Horace G. Allen and Michael J. Creed were assigned as counsel. Afterward, on June 23, 1893, a second indictment was found. On Feb. 5, 1894, the prisoner was discharged on his personal recognizance in the sum of five hundred dollars. In charge of District Attorney Oliver Stevens. AMOS L. MORSE of Boston, indicted in Suffolk, July 8, 1893, for the murder of William T. S. Wardwell, at Boston, June 24, 1893. The prisoner having been proved to be insane, he was ordered to be committed to the State Lunatic Hospital at Taunton, there to be kept to await the further order of the court. The order of commitment is still in force, and no further action has been taken. In charge of District Attorney Oliver Stevens. RICHARD HALEY of West Stockbridge was indicted in Berkshire, July 12, 1893, for the murder of Thomas O'Brien, at West Stockbridge, March 19, 1893. He was never arraigned. At the January term, 1894, he was indicted for manslaughter, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced and committed for eighteen months to the House of Correction. Charles E. Hibbard, Esq., appeared as counsel for the defendant. In charge of District Attorney Charles L. Gardner. EDWARD CUNNINGHAM of Holden was indicted in Worcester, Aug. 17, 1893, for the murder of William Baxter, at Holden. July 6, 1893. He was arraigned Nov. 4, 1893, and pleaded not guilty, and on Dec. 11, 1893, he retracted his former plea, and pleaded guilty of manslaughter. The plea was accepted, and on Feb. 7, 1894, he was sentenced, and on Feb. 9 committed to imprisonment for ten years in the State Prison, one day to be in solitary confinement. John R. Thayer and Arthur P. Rugg appeared as counsel for the defendant. In charge of District Attorney Francis A. Gaskill. DANIEL M. ROBERTSON of New Bedford was indicted in Bristol, Nov. 11, 1893, for the murder of Mary Robertson, at New Bedford, Sept. 9, 1893. He was arraigned Nov. 22, 1893, and pleaded not guilty; was tried March 5-8, 1894. before Mason, C. J., and Dunbar and Sheldon, J. J.; and a verdict was returned of guilty of murder in the first degree. Exceptions were filed by counsel for the defendant and argued before the supreme judicial court. On Sept. 6, 1894, the exceptions were overruled, and Sept. 22, 1894, the prisoner was sentenced to death, and sentence was executed on Dec. 14. 1894. Timothy W. Coakley was assigned as counsel for the |