Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-16
THE COURTS.
THE SCURRILOUS POSTAL CARD
RECEIVED BY ]. W. NANCE.
tary Language-Casss Acted on Yester-
day-Court Notes and New Casss.

Deputy United States Marshal Myron
f. Tarble came up from San Diego yes
terday with G. G. Austin, resident of
that place, in custody. Austin was ar
rested on a complaint sworn out before
Commissioner Van Dyke by J.W. Nance
of Perris.
Nance accuses Austin of sending
libelous and scurrilous postal card to
him through the mails containing the
following words:
"You miserable, drunken, Demo-
cratic scoundrell You ought to be
hung on general principles. 1 will
punch the stuffing out of you the next
time you show yourself here"
The card was signed &c. G.. AUSTIN"
and was dated June 10th.
Austin denies that he sent the card,
and says that some one has been send
ing similar missives to number of
people and signing his name to them.
j. F. Schirm, a San Diego grocer, re-
sending it before he learned of the
Maud card. Commissioner Van Dyke
allowed the accused to go on his own
recognizance till July 22d, the day set
for the examination.
ASK FOR HIS RELEASE.
Messrs. Holcomb & Peck, attorneys
for R. w. Hoff. who was recently held
to answer by Justice Stanton on the
charge of setting fire to the Pacific Slope
restaurant, in the Solomon block, early
in June, have filed petition for writ
OF habeas corpus in department one to
obtain the release of their client. The
petition cites that there was not sufi-
cient testimony adduced at the exami-
trial on the charge of arson. The writ
was made returnable yesterday morning,
at which time the court took the matter
under advisement on depositions.
COURT NOTES.
Jesse w. Lilienthal began suit in
ejectment in the United States circuit
court yesterday, against the Southern
California railway company. The land
in question consists OF 51.55 acres, and
is described as half of the northwest
quarter of section 6, township 9north,
range west, S. B. M, and the plaintiff
demands the possession of the land,
which is valued at $4,000, and $4,000 dam
ages.
Although the vacation has begun in
department three of the superior court,
Judge Wade will hear several cases in
that department today, which come up
regularly on the calendar.
Judge Van Dyke has cleaned up the
business in his department, and his va
cation commenced yesterday.
Philip Werner and John Klaus, natives
OF Germany, were yesterday admitted
to citizenship by Judge Smith.
Findings and judgment were yesterday
ordered for plaintiff by Judge Smith, by
default, in the foreclosure case of E. A.
Allen vs. w. ]. Goss. The mortgage
amounted to $2536. 36 and the judgment
carried 5000 attorneys fees.
R. J. Colyear, the former husband of
Mrs. Emma Hunter, and father of Our
tbs Colyear, the 16-year-old boy who was
sent to the Whittier school, on Monday,
by Judge Van Dyke, on complaint of
his mother MRS. Hunter), writes to the
HERALD to say that the latter's state
ments with regard to the boys being rag
ged and dirty, when he left his father,
are false. Mr.. Colyear says that Curtis
had an abundance of good clothes when
he went over to his mother at the lat
ter's solicitations. This statement is
corroborated by letter also received by
the HERALD from Owen Brennan, who
boarded with Colyear at the time Curtis
left t.i