The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1866-03-17
CfruH Court.

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Cfrluf1 Court.
The LaSalle County Circuit Court adjourn
I'd last Saturday, after iaboricus term OF
four weeks. Previous to Adjournment, hive
unfortunate individuals, who had been adJudg,
ed guilty by jury of their peers of various
heinous offences, were brought up to receive
sentence.
Enoch Sparks, of whom We made mention
several weeks ago as having stolen an over
coat from Mr.. Butt, the photographer in
Ottawa, waslseutenced to one years penal SER
vice at Joliet.
James Adams. for the iaudable enterprise
Of attempting TO set Up Watch and J'welry
establishment at the expense OF another ieweler
and watch maker in LaSalle, was sent up
also for one year.
Samuel ~ Flynn, the mean dog whom We
mentioned some weeks ago as having stolen
horse from Mrs. johnson, q widow lady
living a few miles south of Ottawa, after
having been SO kindly treated by the lady
and who having ran off, was arrested and
brought back from Ohio by Detective Crane,
was found guilty and sent to Joliet for six
years.
John NJ. Dulie, for borrowing horse and
team in Mendoza. and keeping it too long,
in fact, becoming so far confused in regard to
the ownership as to offer 1: fer sale in Dixon,
was sentenced Tor five years at Joliet.
Dock White, colored individual, who had
plead guilty on a charge of larceny, was also
about to receive his sentence, when Mr.. c. ].
Metzner, an attorney of Aurora, unexpectedly
;nterposed an affidavit, making the following
statement That said regro had yea- or so
ago. lived at Mendoza, and moved thence to
Aurora that after moving from Mendoza, an
Irish lady, who had lived near him, missed a
feather bed, and suspected the negro had sto-
len it, got out a warrant and sen. Constable
Patrick Riley with it TO Aurora, that Riley
searched the negros house at Aurora, finding
with chicken feathers, while the Iri:h woman
claimed her bed was filed with geese feathers;
that nevertheless Riley arrested White (the
negro) and lodged him in jail at Ottawa !;
tat Riley, pretending TIC be Whites friend,
advised him Oh the trial to plead gully, for
the reason that then he would be sent to the
penitentiary for but one year, while if he
stood trial, he would 90 up for FIVE or six
years that Riley had also offered to Whites
wife to clear him if she would pay him twent-
five dellars. That under these circumstan>
ees'the negro had plead guilty; that to pass
Sentence on him would be injustic and
PRAYING for new trial &c. On the strength
of this statement the Court granted the new
trial PRAYED for, and placed White bail at so
low a figure that he was released from i'm
prisonment.
Levi Baxley, tried fo- completely IN the
burglary Of l.. Piergues store Ottawa, (men-
toned in this pa per at the time of the eceur>
renee in January last,) was acquitted. This
case also had about it some features worthy
of mention. The points strong against young
Baxley were, that pistol. supposed to be the
one stolen at the burglary. was found in his
possession, and that according to one of the
witnesses he had substantially confessed the
crime Baxley being poor on,ld no. e.nproy
council, and the Court had to assign coun-
sci FOR his defence, naming T. Lyle Dickey
and L. E. Lewis. When the trial came on,
however, Judge Dickey, pleading other press
ne engagements, was excused from serving,
and J. o. Glover, Esq, was assigned to take
his place. The prosecution presented their
case and it seemed plain one enough.
When The defence, however, came to rid |
die the testimony. its weakness was exposed, |
and Baxley acquitted. Ii was found
that though Mr.. Lewis worked without pros
pect of fee or reward, he had worked well,
and got up Lis defence III admirable good
order; while Mr.. Glover. who had come in
unexpectedly at the eleventh hour, really,
both IN his cross examination of the .ritness-
es, and III his adiscss.ta the jury, made one
of the finest deiences ever heard at this bar.
1t is agreed on all hands that the highest
credit is done to Messrs Glover aud Lewis
for their successful management of a case
which, at its commencement, looked so ut
terly discoura9ing.
The Gaze of the Burlington X. r. Co. vs..
Bureau County, mentioned IL our last, ha.
been appealed to the Supreme Court.