Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-05
BRADY is ACQUITTED
DIES MONIES Ex-ALDERMAN
NOT GUILTY
OF tho Charge of Bood'ing I'refe,red
Against Him-I:ad Railroad tCrArk in
Central IDENTIFICATION Fraud in Soath
Dakota-Gencral News.


Central lowa-Etrction Fraud in ssouth
| Dakota General News.
Dies MONIES. Nov. 21.-At the close m the
| taking of evidence in the case o; ex-Aloer-
man brady, the attorney for the dafcnse
moved the court to direct the jury toind ~
1 verdict for the defense on the groundk that
the Indictment is indefinite as to the 4crson
or persons deceived. because it specified no
persons who We're entitled to audit or3allow
bills who were deceived; that the evidence
wholly fails to show that an attemH1 was
made to deceive the city authorities An re-
/ spect to the purchase Of the alleged Bill of
lumber; that there is no evidence til show
the city council was deceived. or thad any
/ body having connection with the cash was
deceived. all having full knowlcdgetof it's
real nature.
Arguments were made for and adanst
the above motion by counsel YESTERDAY. the
time being consumed till noon. The3bur-
den OF the defense was that no ont was
deceived and therefore brady obtaindd no
money by false pretenses, as charged j. the
Indictment. Counsel for the state cdimcd
that the particular bill in question 1%s a
fraud, that there was II conspiracy Anong
the aldermen to obtain money and that
every official through whose hands thu bill
passed should have known whether ID was
correct.
Judge Bishop, in passing upon the mS,ion,
said that in the evidence before hin the
constituent points that 30 to malicj up "a
case as charged in the Indictment d. not
appear. and he directed the jury to brh in
n verdict of acquittal.
stats
men brady, Sheldon. Macy, Esan, King.
Weitz, Baker and Morris was then Ailed
wherein these men are charged witl1will-
full misconduct in Office, ana the wofk of
impaneling Il jury began.
Marshalltown Furnish s 4. Romnndc.
MARsHALLTowN. Nov. 2..-Erwi2 A.
King, of Sioux City. was married herd yes
terday morning to Mrs. Ben Statter, d this
city. The wedding was an element oHlocal
interest at least. from the fact that the5bride
is the divorced wife of Ben stattcr1 for
mer prominent insurance man of thiA city.
Stattcr hcartlessly abandoned his viii and
two children some two years ago, we3lt to
Wisconsin, where, under the prete2sc of
pushing his insurance business. hed paid
court to a lovely girl in milwaukee, and
finally married her. all unknown to tn de-
voted wife lie had left here. and with Whom
he had kept UP a dcsultory correspond nce.
Returning here afterward he sought to
patch the matter up, but was arrcstdl for
bigamy. His friends furnished bond and
Statter disappeared. since which ti1c he
has never been heard of. His first IL real
wife is Il highly respected lady. the dlush-
ter of DIR. w. s. Mcbride. II pYomincl8 and
pioneer druggist of this city.
Trains Crash Together.
MARsIALLTDwN, Nov. 21.-A bad head
end collision occurred on the Chicago, st.
Paul & Kansas City railroad late lasEcven-
ing near Valcria, between an accoli8noda-
ton and q freight train. The conductor of
the former had orders to meet any extra
train at Valeria. When he arrived there
from the south, a freight train was slxnding
on the siding. Surprising it was tha extra
he was to meet he pulled out nd1whcn
~',c',+ ~ milo and h~lt .,sstA> sc Al,1 sta
tion, crashed into the,train that Gs to
have met him at Naleriat the s;,da-Jss
Both trains were running at pretty high
speed and the shock was terrific. Thk en-
gineers and the firemen jumped but bnc of
the former had a leg broken and onebf the
latter an arm fractured. Their namas are
not learned Both engines and Number
OF cars were badly wrecked.