Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-20
District Court.

Tuesday State VS.. Tom
Dryer, perjury, the jury after
having been out sixteen or eigh-
teen hours and spending night
in the court room, announced
to the court that they could not
agree and were dismissed.
State VS.. Tom Warren, col
orcd, passing a forged instru-
ment of writing, plead guilty
and took two years, the lowest
penalty. Tom had forged an
order on a BRENNAN merchant
for $3.50.
State VS.. Will Lockridge, COL
orcd, theft of horse; guilty,
five years in the penitentiary.
State VS.. Marion Lewis, col
ored, theft of horse; verdict of
not guilty by request of county
attorney.
Friday.-State VS.. Jacob Lew
is, colored, murder Of Jordon
Thompson. The jury after an
absence of perhaps half an hour
returned verdict OF man
slaughter, and assessed the pun
ishment at twenty years in the
penitentiary. The defendant
made a full confession at some
time prior to the trial, but
through some informality the
confession was not in proper
shape to be admitted as evil
dencc. The murder was a bru-
tai one, three other parties be-
ing implicated in it. Thomp-
son was murdered and then his
head was nearly severed from
his body with an axe, after
which the corpse was carried
some distance and buried in a
gully. The crime was commit
ted near Graball last winter.
Saturday.-State VS.. Adam |
Fielder, colored, murder, con-
tinued. Fielder, is charged with
implication in the murder of |
Jordan Thompson.
State VS.. Eugene George, |
charged with the murder of a
man on passenger train on the
Santa Fe railway near the
Quarry some months ago; con-
tinued.
The cases against Lizzie
Thompson and Andrew Watts,
both colored, implicated in the
murder of Jordan Thompson
are set for trial on Monday and
the cases against Alf Gee, for
the murder of Moeller and Tom
Cloud, for the murder Of Jim
Napolean are set for Tuesday.
Monday State VS.. Chas
Hughes, colored, charged with
the murder of Pug Parker, col
ored. near Chappell Hill, No
vember IS, 1881, verdict guilty
of murder in the second degree
and sentenced to ten years in
the penitentiaay.
State VS. Lizzie Thompson,
colored, charged with compile
ity in the murder of Jordon
Thompson, colored, jury i'm
paneled and trial progressing.
Tuesday State VS.. Lizzie
Thompson, colored, charged
as being accessory to the muir
der of Jordon Thompson, her
husband. There being no evil
dence to convict, the court or
dered a verdict Of not gully.
State VS.. ALI. D. Gee, charg-
ed with the murder of DR.. Noel
Ter, in Washington. last January,
continued on affidavit of de-
PENDANT. The state announced
ready for trial and the motion
for continuance was very close
ly contested, the argument of
council lasted nearly four hours
and was exhaustive on both
sides.
State VS. Andrew Watts, COL
ored, charged with completely
in the murder Of Jordon Thomp-
son, dismissed by the county
attorney. This disposes of all
those charged with the murder
Of Thompson except negro
man named Fielder, whose case
has been continued.
The following prisoners, all
colored, were brought into
conrt and sentenced. lake
Lewis, murder of Jordon
Thompson, twenty years; Will
lie Lockridge, theft OF horse,
five years; John Williams, theft
Of three horses, seven years;
Clabe Routt, uttering forged in
'trument of writing, two years. :
None of these will appeal.
Lewis Babb, colored. murder,
fifty years and Shed Chadwick, ,
;olored, m urder, life, have both .
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Wednesday, The term is :
nearly over and nearly all the :
heavy cases have been disposed ;
Of. No cases were taken up. !
Tom Warren, colored, convic- :
ed of forgery, was brought into +
court and sentenced to Two :
years in the penitentiaj