A Schuylkill County jury has found a Mahanoy City man guilty of attempted murder after he beat a woman, poured bleach on her and then set her home on fire last December.

The jury on Sept. 2 found Joseph C. Yeich, 28, guilty of criminal attempt to commit first degree murder, aggravated assault, causing a catastrophe, arson, criminal mischief and recklessly endangering another person. They reached the verdicts after two days of testimony and deliberations.Yeich remains in Schuylkill County prison awaiting sentencing.According to court documents and testimony before President Judge William Baldwin, Yeich on Dec. 11 threw bleach on and severely beat Elrena L. Gibson in her Pine Street, Mahanoy City, home, where he had been staying.Then he set a fire in the basement that spread to adjacent homes.Gibson was flown to Lehigh Valley hospital-Cedar Crest, where she was treated. She testified at a preliminary hearing that the assault happened in the basement, where Yeich asked for bleach for something he was working on.She handed a bottle to him, but he said it was the wrong one and assaulted her. She fled the fire through the cellar door after waiting a bit until Yeich had left the house.Police found Yeich a short time later in a house at 1038 Market St.