Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-30
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.
Trial of Petty Offenders and Two Con-
yictiOns.

Trial of Petty Offenders and Two Con-
victiOns.
After the bottom had been knocked out of
the Frank-Burke, Minnesota Illinois imbroglio,
the court took up the consideration of regular
criminal cases.
Alfred Wilbur, who stole set of harness
from DR.. Mintzer. was first called. He showed
up. backed by his attorney, Mr.. Dunn, from
Minneapolis, as washed ut, pale faced blonde
fragmentary straw oolored side whiskers. He,
by attorney, asked to withdraw his former plea
OF not guilty, and to enter plea of guilty to
simple larceny. This arrangement was gener-
ally agreeable, was permitted, the plea entered,
and Wilbur remanded to await sentence.
BROWNS CASE.
Peter Brown, who is alleged to have broken
into and feloniously carried away jewelry from
VIM. Manson's, No. l76 East Seventh street, on
the 30th of October, was not of the mould of
mind OF the preceding criminal. He persisted
IN saying he was not guilty, and his case went
to trial.
A jury was empanneled without difficulty,
and the county attorney stated what he in
tended to prove. Then he went TO work to
prove it. He introduced Manson to show he
lived at No. l76 East Seventh street, and that
ned lost the jewelry. Other witnesses testified
brown had paWned ring, cxhibitio and
belonging to Manson, in Minneapolis. sor-
administered, bleached-haired pawnbroker of
minneapolis swore he had paid SIS for the ring,
anu an expert jeweler of st. Paul SAID it was
worth $l8. Which is a commentary upon the
golden silence preserved by pawnbrokers. when
unknown parties offer valuable property for
small amounts
Early in the proceedings, Mr. ]. ]. Egan,
counsel for defendent. showed pretty plainly
that he intended to burden one Marcus Rive with
the reSOOnSIhilitv Of tho Eua
arrested with Brown at the time of the rob-
berry, but the grand jury failed to find an liz
document.
MIR. Rogers wanted to submit the minutes of
the grand jury to substantiate this
MI. Egan objected 10 it as an uuheard of
thing.
Mr. Rogers got on to the witness stand and
did the business under oath.
Brown was his own and only witness. He
claimed to have been made the innocent victim
OF Dyes (who IS absent since his discharge by
the grand jury Vaccinations True, he had
sold the rig, but at the instance of Bye, from
whom he had obtained it.
Then Mr.: Rogers claimed that Brown ought
to be convicted.
Then Mr. Egan claimed that Brown ought to
be acquitted.
Then the court charged the Jury: then the
jury retired and returned.
Then Peter Brown went out of court cleared
and acquitted of the charge of stealing VIM
Mansen's jewelry. He got out on the streets.
got cigar, and with his face wreathed IN
smiles, he proceeded to wreath his head in
| smoke, with his soul happy and content with
| the course of justice.
GANNoN's CASE.
| Next came Thomas Cannon, who pleaded
not guilty to the charge of stealing a watch
from Ezekiel Cramer. A jury was soon seated
to take the scales Of justice in hand and do the
grand balancing act.
Mr.. Rogers said he could and would
| prove the charge. He then called Cramer.
| Capt. Clark, Pat Conley and others to keep
| him out. Cramer swore he had lost tho watch
| on exhibition; Pat Conley that Cannon had
given him the watch on exhibition to keep;
Capt; Clark that Conley had given him the
watch ON exhibition. In other words, the wit
time it left Cramer until it came into court,
and that the only one who had trans
ported it for a time without authori-
| ty was Thomas Cannon.
MIR. o. Brien, counsel for defense, put Gan
non On the witness stand. He told his story,
and In 1t declared he was not tie original party
by no manner of means who had gotten the
watch. party by the name of Lee, George
William Lee had met him on the corner of
| Ihird and st. Peter streets one night, had
LANDED him the watch with the Injunction to
Keep 1T for a couple of days. Witness had not
seen Lee since then, but had met him half
dozen times before he imposed upon him the
custudianship Of the watch on exhibition,
The usual speeches followed against and for
defendant. The jury got the usual charge.
at 4 O'Clock they went out and got back at
II o'clock P. NJ, with a verdict of guilty.