Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-06
F>reeland, Loomis & Go

was playing and accomplished his vile pur-
pose on her. Her testimony was weakened
very much on cross examination. The state
also attempted to prove by the evidence of
Mrs. Roberts, the wife of the defendant. that
she rushed to the barn in response to the
screams of the little child and caught her
husband in his outrageous work and that she
called him brute and told Mrs Bellman
what she had seen her husband doing and
what had taken place.
The evidence was closed before the dinner
hour and the arguments to the jury were be-
gun at the opening of court. Mrs. Roberts
testimony was very much different from what
it was On the preliminary hearing. The jury
went out mt o'clock and returned an hour
later for information relating to the testi-
mony of the victim. They again retired and
were not ready to report when court ad-
journed until this morning.
PERRY WAS IMPOSED UPON.
Perry LandOn alleges that he traded a
piece of property in Himebaugh and Patter-
sons addition with Charles M. and Mary E.
Waldron, receiving in exchange l60 acres of
land in Pierce county, IS acres of which was
represented to be under cultivation, and
having a house, 3C0 trees and other improve
ments upon it. He now finds that the repre-
sentations were false, and he begs of the
court to have returned to him his land.
swORE OUT AN ATTACHMENT.
An action in attachment was filed yester-
day by Stone and Syone against Charles M.
Clark to recover on promissory note
overdue, amounting to S756.
THE JURY OUT.
The case of Burmeister against Munger
was called before Judge Hopewell yesterday
afternoon. The suit is brought to recover
SIG for the sale of some goods and $50 on
promssory note. The jury were deliberating
on verdict when court adjourned.
HE WAS sLANDERED.
Samuel Cohen began suit to-day against
Joseph Ferguson for s., 600 damages for SLAM
der. Furguson used the following words
about Cohen: "He stole quilt from my
store.n He also caused the following to be
published in THE BEE the 10Th of May, 1883:
"Cohen went to Furgusons the other day to
settle, and got into dispute about quilt,
which he says he purchased of Mr.. Cody, one
of the clerks, but which Mr.. Furguson claims
he stole from in front of his store" 1t is for
the above utterances the plaintiff claims the
$1,000.
CASE DISMISSED.
The case of Durr against the Omaha and
Grant Smelling and Refining company that
was on trial all day Monday before Judge
Hopewell was dismissed yesterday on the
ground that the above named
company was not in eXlstance
at the time plaintiffs petition states
that he was working in it and that he never
worked for the above named corporation, but
had been IN the employ of the Omaha Smelt-
ing and Refining company.
VERDICT FOR PLAINTIFF.
The jury in the case of David A. Nelson
against Robert f. Lvesley that was on trial
before Judge Doane returned
verdict yesterday for the plaintiff in the
sum of S349. SO.
SUIT FOR POSSESSION.
The case of John /. RedIck against Elias
Russell for the possession of lot 1903 in Cassa-
dy's addition to the city of Omaha was
begun Yesterday Russell who
has been employed about Redick's
barn for some years, is in forcibe possession
of the lot and claims that he owns it, having
paid for it by his work The plaintiff claims
tnat he was allowed TO build a shanty on the
and charity from him.