St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-31
NEARING THE END.
The Labors of the Grand Jury
Almost Completed.


The grand jury oscillated yesterday
between the Kicker case and that of
Isadore Monasch, and succeeded in fin
ishing neither of them. There is great
amount of evidence to be gone through
in the latter case, and the trunk full of
papers pertaining to the affairs of the
Turner's Building ASSOCIATION was again
lugged through the tOrtuOuS wind
ing passage ways into the jury
room. The majority of the
cases seem to perpleX the jury
not little, and it is stated by some that
it has not yet voted upon any of the
principal ones, although in the Hollins
matter there is good reason to suppose
that the case was dropped from a lack
of any evidence aside from what might
be considered mere hearsay and County
Attorney Jamison says that the jury
was disguised with the manner in which
the whole affair has been noised about,
where there was so little apparent
cause. Unless some further testimony
is introduced, the case will certainly be
dropped, as all the witnesses SO far eX-
amined gave testimony strongly against
the probability of the story.
There are two quite important eases
to come up to-day, one of them being
the charge of forgery preferred by Mrs.
BOWdlsh against her husband, once
"Rev." E. S. Bowdish. The jury sum-
moned r. l.. Penney, Bowdish's attor-
ney, to appear before them, and COM
manded him to produce the forged doc
ument, which is an agreement which
Bowdish claims to have, in which Mrs.
Bowdish was to return to him certain
real estate which he transferred to her
before the divorce, as soon as their
daughter attained the age of sixteen
years. Mr.. Penney stated that he did
not know where the document was
and that he had not seen it for three
days. Bowdish, it will be remembered,
commenced an action some few days
ago in the district court for the recov-
cry of the property. The case is laid by
for time to see if this document, which
Mrs. Bowdish claims was executed by
Bowdlsh, and which is a forgery if it
does exist.
One of the witnesses to appear before
the jury is Mrs. Marx. of Medina, who
is seeking to have Henry Schumacher
indicted for fornication. This case
brings to nina the case at the last
term of court, when her husband
was charged with being the father
of his stepdaughter's child, and also
with having compelled the girl and his
wife to swear falsely to the fact that
another man was the author of the mis-
chief. At that time it was impossible
to find Mrs. Marx. 1t seems that after
the affidavit was made and prior to the
time the grand jury met, the girl, then
only fourteen years of age, whose name
was Alma Nohr, conceived passion for
her stepfather's hired man, and ran
away and was married to hin This
case is entirely indeDendent of the
old one, as to who was the
father of the girls child, and is
being urged by Mrs. Marx, who is
striving to have Schumacher indicted for
having married the girl without the
consent of her lawful guardians, and
therefore she claims an illegal act.
1t is probable that the jury will finish
all the cases to-day, although the Mon
asch case is an intricate one, and re-
quires a vast amount of time to 60
through with.