The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-11-20
DISTRICT COURT.
Opening Of the Court Yesterday and Judge
Sener's Charge to the Grand Jury.

The regular term of the November,
1888, term of the district court for the
First judicial district, convened yester.
day at IL a. M, Hon. J.. B. Sener,
chief justice, presiding.
These officers of the court were pres
emit: j. K. Jeffrey, clerk of court, S.
X. S~haIpless, sheriff; J. G. Baird, coun.
ty attorney; Robert Morris, territorial
stenographer; and w. R. Schnitger,
United States deputy marshal; and w.
II. Hubbard, bailiff. Attorneys Fisher,
Potter, Baird, Corlett, Donzlemann,
Riner, Rosendale, Stewart, Fisher, T.
NJ, Mann, Campbell, Hibard, Carroll
and Miller, of Denver, were present,
and NJ. G. Brown, United States at
torney is expected to-day.
The following are the grand jury:
Luke Voorhees,, foreman; A. Simmons,
G. A. Seabury, Fl. B. Kelley, William
Gusterman, F. Melander, g. Smith
William Ryan, James A. Bean, d. F.
Whipple, o. P. Goodwin, E. A. Page,
W. R. Wightman, R. F. Glover, A. C.
Wade and G. Herman. William Stur-
CESS, A. G. McGregor and John F.
Coad were excused.
Judge Sener's charge was substan-
TALLY as follows: Mr.. Foreman and
gentlemen of the grand Jury. The law
requires me to call your attention to
several matters in regard to the duties
which you have been called here to per-
form. L shall do so as briefly as posi-
BILE for 1 do not wish to waste a great
many words on the subject of your du-
ties asa general nature, for you are al
ready-or many of you-quite familiar
with them. But there are some things
of which L must speak, and leave the
responsibility with you, and in so doing.
the responsibility so far as an investi-
cation is concerned, is shifted from the
court to you. L have learned through
the public print and from other sources
that since the meeting of the last grand
inquest of this county, a person charg-
en- with a heinous o~ffense, to be sure,
but who was, nevertheless, entitled to
lose his life, if at all, by the law and
after an impartial trial, has been taken
by force from the jail of this county and
hung by a number of unknown men.
Whether they were citizens of this
place or county L do not know, but
they were conspirators together for
an unlawful purpose, and executed that
purpose, and the law makes it your
sworn duty to investigate this matter
and ascertain, if it can be done, who
the perpetrators OF this offense are
that they may be dealt with as the law
directs. Further than this 1 have
nothing to say on the subject.
The court then called attention to a
few other matters in regard to the du-
ties of the jury, after which they retired
to the grand jury room in charge o:
Bailif Hubbard.
The names of the petit jurors are as
follows: A. Gilchrist, A. W. Bristol,
Thos. MCGEE, H. E. Brunell, Philip
Zehner, Jr., E. P. Snow, R. ]. Reamy,
A. F. Kicker, A. P. Arbuckle.
W. Mast, H. E. Teschmacher and J..
w. Jones were excused as jurors, and
the sheriff directed to fill the panel by
next Monday, and the petit jury was
discharged until that time.
The preliminary call Of the civil and
criminal calendars resulted in the con
tinuance of a number of criminal cases,
some in which no arrests have been
made, and others in which the witnesses
are at present scattered and out of the
jurisdiction of the court. The same
was to a certain extent true of the civil
calendar. Many cases had been settled,
in some neither side were ready for
trial, some were passed for the present,
and a large number were found to be
ready for trial at the present term, but
of course none were definitely set for
trial upon any particular day. Several
cases were placed on the trial docket on
motion. Altogether quite a beginning
on the work of disposing Of the business
Of the term. In the chancery cases
several were referred to special masters
to take the testimony and report the
same at the present term Of court.
Leave to take dispositions in term time
and several defaults were taken. Want
of space prevents giving a full and COM
plete report of the proceedings.
Court adjourned until 10 a. m. to-
day.