Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-01-30
NOT GUILTY SAY TWELVE
GOOD AND TRUE
MEN.
At the Pickwick Trial of Ed.
Meloy, Tuesday. at
Kingman.
The Kingman Bank Certainly Safe In
stisutioa a. the Time Lock Re-
fuses to Open.
KINoMAN KERNELS.

kINoNAN, Jan. q, 1886.
Ed. Meloy was tried yesterday before his
honor Justice S. P. Sproul for selling intox-
icating liquors, but as was clearly intimsted
in my former communication the verdict
WAS not guilty. The jury was out only
about ten minutes, and they were fully satis-
fed that tina state had not proven their case.
This was sort Of a test case BY the temper
ance people. Everybody is now satisfied
that no liquor is sold or given away in
kingman within the memory o. the Inv.
In the first place Mr.. X. p. Bolls, the county
attorney, should have been given something
easier than to draw and prosecute a whisky
complaint for his first case after election to
office However, it served to bring him be-
fore the people and gave the half dozen at
torneys for the defense chance to know in
future just what kind of timber they have to
deal with. His form is commanding, in fact
almost an obelisk in stature. His voice,
when excited, is at times weak
and tends TO squeaky, with q
peculiar twitch of the eye, and the mis-
quoting of Shakespeare denoted that he wa.
somewhat nervous. The complainant, one
p. +. Hemphill, is passive looking pillow
boy with unkept hair and savoy right eye,
with n remarkable memory for the good of
the cause. He is now convinced that filing
complaints against cuisines" men in King
man is not his fort, and in future will allow
bis friend 10 Bramwell to fight his own bst-
ties the next time he comes TO town to get
drunk and pswns his horse for forty dollars
and spends his money in riotious living, and
he himself stands self-confcssed guzzler.
Hemphill was the only witness examined,
that was all that WAS necessary for the half
crazed bowling macs of legal lights saw that
the case must fall by its own weight and
they went in for picnic, and the wit and at
tempt at wit was at the time better than
circus. The monkey and the American hog
cut large figure in the case. Mr.. Lydecker
told monkey story and made personal al
lusions to the county attorney, but Mr..
Harry Storhm thought that he
was entirely off as the subject
was way up to the full weight
of matured Poland China hog. The ex-
element became intense and the court
looked at your reporter to see if he could
depend upon help in case of u general knock
down, of course he could, and having in
mind the great battle recently won by the
scribe he came to the gavel and invoked the
aid Of Sheriff Baker, who stood behind the
reporters chairs apparently not caring to be
seen, but to the relief Of all, Mr.. Leslie COM
menced to say the Lords prayer. The
words being strange to the audience, all was
attentive to Mr.. Leslie, and when he saw
he had them, he told them the little
story Of the lambs tail and the lemon.
The following are the jurors who says Ed.
Maloy was not guilty: Geo. Washborn. II.
H. Billows, L. S. Ludwick, T. Wait F..
Payne, Geo. Croump, W. Wright, w. B.
Nicholson, H. C. Godowll, ]. F. Wrenchie,
s. Israel and Ira Glasscock.
The last Indian raid did not create half
the excitement that this trial has, and it is
safe to say that their defeat was not SO hu-
initiating as the states. The last straw
that broke the camel's back was
the jury announced that they
had agreed upon verdict but must have
their pay before giving it into the court.
Judge Sproul is nonplussed. He thought az
how he had got his new office all pape,ed;
the enjoyment he expected 70 have in the
room papered by Brooklyn bridge paper,
and when it did not support the floor better,
but how to pass BY twelve good and true
men without six dollars in his pocket was
connundrum, but it was solved by the law
reporter of the EAGLE assuring the court
that no such demand could be mode at that
hour III o'clock at mighty.
The Kingman bank time lock refuses to
open. Banker Jones came down as usual to
open the time lock of the bank door but
found the time was not up for that lock to
open in the usual way. The makers at Gin
cinnati have been wired to come to the
banks relief.
The freight train got stuck in q snow
bank, go the railroad men say, and did not
arrive here until II o'clock p. m. instead OF
at 2 p. m. as usual, consequently there was
no EAGLE to-day in Kingman.