The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-11-20
LA WEEKLY BAZOO, TUESDA Y, NOVEMBER 20 1888

Clark, and the custody of the children
given to the pisintiff In the Schaumburq
divorce esss, also, the plaintiff was granted
the desired decree.
The notorious terry case OF Talbot
! against Herndvn was sent to Pettis county
on change of venue
: The cases against Blanchard and Stacy,
the travelling pillow men, charged with oh
tain pg money by means Of a cheat, were
continued until the February term.
! The suit of James Thompson against j.
II Johnston, administrator Of the estate of
Kelly Rugland. deceased, wascompromised.
The plainliff Was given $3.50 and each par
| ty to pay his own costs This case had
b.en app'ald from the probate court.
| J. T. McClanahaD, Of lhs city plead
guilty III thirty FIVE cases to selling liquor
on Sunday and without license and was
ordered To- pay fine OF $2o in each Of the
/ hrst twen,, five cases and s, in each Of the
other ten c..-es. The total fines aud Gusts
will foot up nearly one thousand dollars.
Berster, the Pilot Grove saloon man,
and his clerk, plead guilty in ten cases
| tn sell ng liquor without license. and was
! fined $40 in each.
An Interesting test case was that Of the state
! against Mrs. NJ. J. Mcpherson, the proprie-
tr-ss of the City hotel, for Selling cigars to
her guests on Sunday. Defendant claimed
that lie sale Vas a work of necessity. The
ju, Sc decided otherwise. In his opinion,
H. i marked, tina, though il might seem old
fashions, d IN him, he thought and decided
III 3, il was 10 more a work of necessity Ia
sell cigars o. Sunday than il was to sell
whisky or clothing or any thing else. lie
discharged tie defendant, however, Oh other
grounds.
y case that has attracted considerable at
;ertl"n and caused much feeling in the
ne..horhcud where il occur d Was finally
disposed # v. st.Idsy. 1t was tn, State W.
T.. u. WIntco and " L. HuddlestOn,.,
Canal n county. Bv quest Of the prose
ecH'.rs attorney OF Cooper county entered
n n"'l-. Before the defendants ", re dis
charged, Dan Wrsy, one of their counsel.
Ia sic remarkable statement Ia the court.
!lc said that the indIctmsn Mt against his
c:i mt' was a forged one !; that the foreman
Of the Camden county grand jury
an. the prosecuting attorney had got
ten II up without The knowledge Of TN
grand jury and without color of Law. Wind
co was held ON charge Of shooting Circuit
Clerk Roach OF Linn creek, and Huddle-
stone a. an accessory. Windco
is: a very prominent man in
Camden county, having represented tia
county in the state legislature. Judge Ed
wards stat. that it Was q most singular
charge to b. n, .de, that of Mr. Wray. and
that il onsht 20 be Investigated, but that as
Camden WAS 10 longer in his circuit he
could no; take action concerning it.
Marion Hrdgpeth, thu muchly written up
criminal, who broke into some houses at
Prairie Home, was arrested, lO5g-d ip Jail
knocked down Deputy Sheriff Williams,
escaped. was recaptursd, triesl and con-
victed. broke Jail second time aud was
again I, csptured, was finally given richly
meriied punishment. He was sent 20 the
pen for seven wears, Eve for grand larceny
and two for brt akipg Jail.
John Grant, coiOrsd, received four years
in the peni,entiary for stealing shot gun
from German farmer near town.
DR. w. 7. Gibson, of Prairie Home. was
tried for assault and battery. Gibson
traded horses with q man AT Prairie Home,
and finding he was swindled, called Oh
the man with whom he had traded and
freed him to give him la, k his animal.
For this the horse trader had him indicted
and he was triei by jury yesterday. The
horse-,rader was proved to be such a
swindler that Gibson was cons rdered idstl-
fed in using force in the matter, and was
only fined one dollar for technical viola
ton oil the law.
A nolle pros was entered in all of the
Kelsey bank cases, which Col. Snoddy came
from Sedalia to defend, except one, and
that was continued.
Charley Clueber was fined 800 for petty
larceny.
IVES Sumner was sent to Jail ior six
months for assault.
The above constitutes the more impor-
tant cases tried.