Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-21
THE LAW COURTS.
OPENING OF THE GENERAL TERMS
YESTERDAY.
The Grand Jury-The Calendar-Judge
LOchren's Charge.

The February general term of the dis
trict court of Hennepin county was form
ally opened by Sheriff Stoddard at 10
o'clock yesterday morning, with Judges
Young and Lochren on the bench. The
forenoon was devoted to preliminary
reading of the calendar and calling OF the
grand jury. It was found necessary to
issue a special venire for four more jurors,
1eturnable at o'clock At that hour the
colrt reassembIed and the clerk called the
roll of the jury which was responded to BY
the following
GRAND JURY:
Miles Dickey, Ole Guam, Freeman
James, Samuel Moodey, John Kirk, G. A.
Nimocks, Christopher Guimont, Alonza
Philips. J. H. Michel, r. B. McGrath, J.
". Grove. r. P. Johnson, H. W. Wagner,
Wesley Neill c. B. He1felfnger, Henry
Ambrose, D. D. Green. Ole Johnson and
Geo. Hamilton. The court appointed
Major c. B. He1felfnger foreman of the
july. Judge Loehren then proceeded to
deliver the
JUDGES CHARGE.
The charge was a very short one and con-
sisted only of very brief instructions tothe
j7ry. The Judge began by saying that he
would not detain them to listen to long
address. The present jury was composed
of men of sufficient Intelligence to form
correct ideas of what should be done, and
he Sished only to impress upon the minds
of the members the importance Of deliber-
ate action. They should inquire carefully
into each case presented for their consid-
Grafton, weigh well all the evidence so as to
make their decisions fairly and honestly.
The cases of persons now confined in the
county jail should be examined into first,
so that if any be held in custody now
against whom the charges shall not be sus-
tanned by the evidence they may not be
detained longer. He continued, that it is
customary to call the attention of the
grand jury to the matters
OF gambling and bawdy houses, as it is
their duty not only to investigate such
cases as may be brought before them, but
to look into the morals of the city and in
diet all offenders of any sort against
whom satisfactory evidence shall or can be
brought, and to do what they can to
cleanse the city of the pests Of gambling,
and houses of i'll fame. The Judge then
proceeded to read the statutes defining the
duties of the grand jury, and endeavored
to impress upon the minds of the jury the
necessity of great secrecy, taking especial
care that their private deliberations did
not come to the notice of the public.
The jury was then given in charge of
Special Officer Stiles Gray, and soon after
adjourned until this morning.
The calling and setting of the cases was
then resumed and upon calling the cases
in which parties had given bonds, the fol-
lowing parties failed to respond and their
bonds were declared forfeited: Frank
Uhisen, Frank Hughes, NJ E. Woodling
1.-TWO cases), R. H. Wood, H. A. Winstrom,
and T. W. Woodcock and H. A. Reed as
witnesses.
Nels JepsOn appeared and was ordered
to appear again March 5.
w. +. Thompson answered to the call,
and was ordered to appear again this
morning.
THE CALENDAR.
The calendar contains 222 cases, Of
wlich sixty sight are continued from last
term, nineteen are. appeal cases never be-
fore on the calendar, 126 are new civil
cases, and the remaining nine are criminal.
Among the last are two against John Win
bre3k aad Nels Jepson for bastardy, and
one against James Noble for keeping
gambling devices. The final calling Of the
calendar will be completed this morning,
and then the general business of the term
will be taken mp.