St. Paul daily globe., 1888-02-09
n GOOD LOAFENG PLACE.
Crowds Attracted to the Badly
Ventilated Room OF the District
Court--,weDS' Case


Ventilated Room OF the District
Court--Owens' Case.
All day long Judge Kellys court
room is crowded with spectators, no
matter whether the case on trial be i'm
portant or not. The crowd seems to be
largely composed of idlers who have no
warmer place to loaf in. The stove is
kept running in full blast all day and
the windows are all closed tight. As a
consequence there is rather strong
odor confined to the court room, and
bench, bar and jury are compelled to
put up with it.
1t was so yesterday during the trial of
James Owens, the bright-looking young
fellow accused of smashing light in
the window of &. e. Bergh'S jewelry
store little while before Christmas
and appropriating several watches and
other valuableS. A large number OF
witnesses for the state t0ook the stand,
among them e. c. Bergh, Henry Myer,
Chief John Clark, Chief Detective
John j. O'COnnor, George North,
reporter of the GLOBE, William
O'keefe. the night jaiier of the union
police station; Oscar Wilde, hack
driver; James Quinn and James Daw
prisoner. Parts of the trial might have
been interesting, but little was de-
veloped with which the public is not
familiar. The crowd, attentively listen
ing to every word, was the most inter
eStlng thing about the court room.
Owens, who, may be anywhere be-
tween the ages of twenty-five and thirty
years, has quite record. He is said to
be man who shot the Chinese laundry
man because the Mongolian Insisted
upon Is cents for his ''waShee," instead
of 10 cents. as his white assailant
thought it should be. He is also ac-
cuSed of robhing PannelfS store. He
lived short while here with a girl
whom he married in Fargo. She left
him when she heard he was arrested
and, as she supposed, discovered his
true character and went home. Owens
claims that he made his confession to
Chief Clark under promise from De-
tective 0fConnor that Mr.. 0'Connor
would make ''it light for him" if he
would own up and make. clean breast
of the matter. This Mr.. O'Connor and
Chief Clark denied. Mr.. McCafferty
wanted the confession excluded from
the evidence. but Judge Kelly allowed
it to be received. All the testimony is
in. and the counsel will argue the case
this morning.
TO PROTECT THE NAME.
The present California Wine House
company has applied for an injunction
to restrain Jacob Bloom from doing
business under the name of the Califor-
MIA Wine house. Mr.. Bloom was the
original proprietor of the place, but he
failed, and Nj. B. Eddinger acquired all
his assets. The plaintiff claims that it
purchased the right of the name of the
California Wine House company from
BIZ ON. but that Mr.. Bloom on Feb.
4 started another California Wine
house" across the street from the plain
titf'S place of business.
COURT NOTES.
The Nicholas Kill insanity case will
come up before the probate court at
noon to-day. Judge German has not
yet appointed his jury. The probate
courts examination will be entirely in
dependent of the action of the district
court jury.
A motion for new trial i'll the case
of Annie Olson, Administrative of the
estate of John Olson, against the Chi
cago, Burlington & Northern was
granted by Judge SimonS.
R.,C. Munger has commenced suit
against Charles F. Young fof $23.76 on
real estate transaction involving lot
S5, Hall IL Browns addition to Hyde
Park.
Judge Wilkin has set aside the YER
diet in the case of A. n. Barringer
against Margaret Kyle, and has allowed
new trial.