Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-01
FEsTERD4Y,s oRrufyA1 TRIALS.

Ahe Mute j oinett tie Found entity of Ear
cenY but Recommended to Mercy-AI.x
gross Acquitted on His Indictment for
Lsfceny-The Trial OF a Merchants Efo4el
Seii BOY Caught in a Trap SEE to Test Ills
Honet5y.
Inc jury returned verdict of guilty in
the case OF +. H.Joinette, the mute. vester-
Gay morning for larceny of property to
the amount of $s45, but recommended him
to the clemency of tie court. which or
dered his case held open 70, ten DAVIS
PROBABLY with view CT Mitigating SEN
tence, as all who were present at the trial
will feel should be done, because of his
obvious lack of the most ordinary inte,li.
gence.
The rext case taken up was that of AIex.
Gross, against whom an indictment was
found by the grand jury for the larceny of
gold coin and bank bills from
the dwelling of Anton Schmidt,
On the 18th of September last, claimed to
! amount to SIS, but who has been ont on
bail for the greater part of the Tina since
his original committal to jail By the
municipal court.
The state showed through witnesses tdat
! On the Gay the money was taken from the
house, during The temporary absence of
| Mrs. Schmidt, thu defendant showed SINH
| lar money to companions, that he was
generally short OF the needful, and paid
the tare Of q c0mrade to Chicago, from
whsnce he, Gross, ola not return until
/ January.
The defence brought forward by the
whole family of the prisoner and Z lady
who worked for Them, was that the pris-
oner had saved up the money with which
he went to Chicago, aud that the gold
| be had IN his possession
he changed silver Tor with his
father, which silver he had earned from
and been paid by his father. These per
sons also testified that on the DAY on which
| the money claimed to be stolen from an
| unlocked bureau drawer in the Schmidt
| mansion, Jerry Gross worked in his fath-
er's shop from early morRing until II
O'Clock and then took the first train for the
east.
Judge Wilkin in his charge said the tes-
timony was very conflicting and that the
| jury would have to decide which side had
told the truth. They retired and in the
course Of fifteen minutes brought in YER
dict of not guilty.
| The next case in order was that of Thos.
| Hamilton, bell boy at the Merchants
| hotel for larceny OF twenty-five dollars
from room forty-two, Ely Alien, manager
| of the hotel being the prosecuting
| witness. Itappeared IN the evidence that
| because of considerable theft from rooms,
Mr. Alien placed $25 III marked bills in a
| pocket book il this room on Aug. %, and
| mad this boy sent up from the Office to it
| after baggage, and that he retained the
money anu did not report the ''fud' at the
Office as is customary. and on being closely
spotted was arrested III the hotel with the
money i'll his pocAei. The defeuse was
mainly to show that the lsd had not suffi-
| Gent time to pass his find" in before he
was arrested; thas al intent" 10 steai had
not been shown, and that the jury could
not fad him guilty Of larceny when he
! took this moneg from the room, as he did
50 by orders from his principal, and was
acting for the time bong as an agent, and
therefore, if he had committed crime it
was one of ombeZzlement Tina court
| withheld its charge until this morning.
Owing TO tho poverty of the uccus the
court ordered that the state bear the ex-
| penses of his counsel in his defense.
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- District Court Second Judicial District
Andoras 3. CASTOR, plaintiff, aRainht William 2 Nov