Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
THE COURTS.
POLICE coUg.

POLICE COURT.
/ Etha Brown, the name gwen by the col
ored girl who had the trouble with Samue
| Fordham at the corner of Fifth and VIII
liams, yesterday appeared in police court
/ She was still suffering from her debauct
and was a generally unpleasant looking
! specimen of humanity. She was accus q
| of being dunk and of the offense was
! found guilty.
! Andrew Head was the name given by
/ the West Side shoemaker who was brought
over the night before. Against him stood
! the charge of indecent exposure
/ The three little girls were al
in court and told plain, straight
! forward tale. The nan was found guilty
and fined in all $50. Being penniless hs
was given employment upon the stone pile
where he can, without doubt, work of bis
superfiuous energy.
Mitchell Davis. the colored boy who had
stolen the bride from George Russell, or
South Emporia, answered to the charge OF
petit larceny, was fined and sent to the
cooler. His honor says this is not the first
time that the boy has been up before him
for stealing and he thinks that the youth
ought 10 be sent to the reforrnatory.
Frank Nash was again up as a drunk
and has now a job for the next twelve
upon the stone pile.
VIM. Halary and Charles Mason were
two Migrants who were assessed the usual
fines
Lille Brown, a one-eyed siren, was ar
rested the night before upon warrant
sworn ont by a former lover. She was
penniless and was discharged.
PROBATE COURT.
The will of Lucy c. Ellsworth, deceased,
was yesterday fled and admitted 10 pro
bate. letters testamentary were issued to
Mark Ellsworth.
Sale bill was filed in the estate of A. d.
Hill deceased.
Settlement was yesterday made OF X. h..
Root, guardian of the Root minors.
Jennie o. Kettle kahoe, the 8 year-old
infant of Mary Jane Kahoe, deceased, was
Yesterday adopted TO A. H. and Grace
Wigs.
Marriage icence was issued by Judge
Thomas to the following persons: Clyde
Gasaway, of Wichita. and Bertha Conosts,
of Little Rock, Ark; o. A. Nickery, of
Los Angeles Cal, and Lucille NJ. Lauck,
Wichita; j. W Oakford and Locke Wad-
kins both of this city.
DISTRICT COURT
Yesterday at the district court George L..
Boiteau VS.. A \. Mukey, brought into
this court on change of venue from Bar
bour county, was on trial. The case was
given to the jury this afternoon, but not
succeeding in arriving at verdict they
returned to the court room about O'Clock
for further instructions by the court. They
retired again to their room and were in
Structed to bring in sealed verdict.
A motion for new trial in both state
VS.. w. Z. Gates and state VS.. ". G. Beebe
was heard by the court in the even
ing before adjournment. The motion
in the former case was taken under advise
ment, but in the latter was overruled-
BEEBE RECEIVES SENTENCE.
The motion for a new trial in the Beebe
case being overruled, the defendant who
had been in court all the time during the
argument an attentive listener, was told
by Judge Reed to stand up and receive
sentence. He was given one year and six
months at hard labor in the state peniten-
tiary He received the sentence without
the least show of emotion and appeared TO
be quite happy at getting off so easy. The
offense of which the condemned is charged
is obtaining money under false pretenses.
He has for some time past been doing a
thriving business in the chattel mortgage
ine-mortgaging, remortgaging and mort
gaging again his horses and stock. At
last, pushed to the wall by his creditors,
he, last fall, got all of his horses together,
some forty or fifty head, and drove them
out of the county. y long and yigilant
search was kept up for him and at last he
was found in Nebraska by detective and
brought here for trial.
JUSTICE COURT.
A warrant was yesterday issued for a
young colored man, William johnson.
who was captured the day before. He is
charged with having stolen valise and
some clothing on the first day of April.
His case was set for hearing the 10Th.
Charles Hudson, the young hack driver
who was arrested some time ago for steal
ing SIS from his girl, was brought into
court, but the prosecntrix failed to put in
her appearance and he was discharged.