The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-02
THE COURTS,
Circuit Court.

Frank Sabkowak received a verdict for
$4,000 against the Anderson Pressed Brick
Co. of Chicago on Saturday morning
William Grant, who entered Engineer
Salts honse at ia Sale q couple Of months
ago, plead guilty on Wednesday and was
sentenced to five years in Joliet. He secured
a watch chain from the dwelling
James Mulligan, who purloined o trunk
from the depot at Amboy, with a stolen
trunk check, also plead guilty and was given
three years In the penitentiary.
The boys who we're indicted in conse.
quence of the riot at Norway gave bail on
Saturday. 4
The Hintz & Baker Co. received verdict
of 1922 ia against S. s. Fairchild.
Chas. Wolfsberger entered a motion to file
an additional count in his suit against Patk.
Magher.
Chas. Funk, the cattle man, sued James
Croaker and william McGrath for So, 200
damages, for injuries received north Of town
last fall. Funk and John Barratt, who &C.
companed him, testified that they
were returning from the country,
and when about three miles from
town, McGrath, Croaker and anoth1
men, in separate wagons, bore down upon
them from distance. The three were intox-
cated and as they approached, he advised
Ba~ratt to turn into the ditch, as the drivers
showed no intention of turning out. Barratt
did so, and he (Funk) got out to hold the
horses. As he struck the ground, McGrath
shouted to Croaker to run over the - !"
Croaker turned in, and the while tree strk-
ing Funk, threw hun under the wagon, which
ran over him, rendering him insensible. He
was taken into house near by, and did not
revive until one O'Clock in the morning.
Croaker and McGrath testified that when they
met Barratt and Funk, the latter was lying
in the middle of the road, drunk. When
Croaker came up, he arose and attempted to
strike him, but Croaker slapped him and
pulled out, when Funk fell and presumably
was run over by the wagon. The jury re-
turned Il verdict of not guilty.
The murder cases on the'docket will be ,
tried this term of court, says States Attorn'
ey Blake. He has been confined to his
house all the week, with bad foot, caused
by poison from a colored sock being alb,
sorbed by an abrasion on the heel. He was
out, Tor the first time, yesterday.
NeW Cases Jennie Dramond, Of this city,
seeks separate maintenance of her husband,
James Dramond, of Chicago. She states in
her narration that they were married in
1877, and that on account Of extreme cruel
ty and brutality on the part OF Dramond,
she was forced to leave him In 1854. She
asks for the custody of her children, aged
nine and seven years.
Circuit C0urt,-One of the most sensation,
al divorce cases that the court has consid-
cred for some time is now on trial Mary
Thomas brings a suit for divorce, against
her husband, John Thomas, Tor cruelty and
asserts that she left him because her motherI
interfered with their household arrange-4
menis. They were married after a few
week acquaintance, and in short time,
according to her allegations, he became jeal-
Gus Of another fellow who happened to |
call one day, and thereafter life was made I
burden to her. He ended up few months
of in6delity by calmly punching her head,
for which she secured a verdict of assault in
the Circuit court, last fail. This verdict and
her allegations of general cruelty, from her
side of the case
Thomas alleges, through the testimony of
his witnesses, that his wife was of quarrel
some disposition, and left him because he
would not allow her to poison herself, that
she and her family are trying to obtain his
property, and that she gave birth to child
aud threw it to the hogs. This last asser-
ton was emphatically disproved by the
plHntiffs Introducing Drs. Hathaway and
Ryburn, who testified that the woman had
never given birth to child. The case will
probably be finished today.