The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-04-18

denly quiet when Clerk Marvin stood
up to read the verdict. Slowly he
read as follows: 1--WE the jury find
the defendant, Richard Robinson,
guilty of murder in the first degree,
in the manner and form described in
the Indictment"
The attorney for the defense did
not desire to have the jury polled and
court adorned until 3 o'clock this
morning.
Dick Robinson was handcufied to
Deputy Sheriff Ramsey and taken to
the county jail where he will remain
until the last day Of court when Judge
Ryland will sentence him to be hanged.
MORNING SESSION, APRIL II.
State of Missouri VS.. John G. Miller
change of venue from johnson county
charged with violating local option
law. Filed motion to qussh indict-
ment; overruled. Pleaded guilty and
fined SIS.
State We. Donohoe, charged with
rape. Continued on application and
at cost of the state.
State VS.. Chas. Banks, colored,
charged with murder. Change Of
venue granted to johnson county,
which court meets the first Monday in
May 1893.
State vs.. Fitz alias Thomas Moore,
charged with felonious assault, strik-
ing colored woman, Clarisa Pool, with
a crutch. Pleaded guilty and fined
500 and costs. On application of
counsel for Fitz the sentence was COM
muted to 30 days in Jail regardless Of
costs.
Last August the Seventh day Ad-
ventists held a camp meeting at
Forest Park, w. w. KnickerbOcker
of Lexington county attended the
camp meeting with his family. One
member of the family was little girl
named Hattie Maggie KnickerbocEer,
while there one Robert Gibbs, who is
a painter by trade and aged about %,
took the little girl and fondled her
In a very suspicious manner, to say
the least, and the grand jury found
an indictment for an assault
with intent to commit lape.
Anything like a summary of the
evidence was toe disgusting to put in
print. The little girl, who is nine
years old, was put on the witness
stand, as was also the girls father,
James Wilburn and J. T. Trips, who
was acting as police officer at the
camp meeting ground.
Gibbs has resided in Sedalia about
six wears. He came here from Sloan
Springs, Ark, where his father re-
sides.
The jury found the defendant gull
ty and sent him to the penitentiary
for five years.
John Witcher. charged with MUIR
der was arraigned this morning and
through his attorney. w. d. Steele,
pleaded not guilty, and the case was
the defendent giving bond
in the sum of $4,000, his mother
signing the bond. The case cannot
be tried before November 1898.
Robert Dawson disturbed the
peace of p. J. Eckles, on Sept. 2 80. |
Dawson was found guilty in the city
court and fined s25. He appealed.
This morning Dawson plead guilty
and was fined 81.
The State VS.. VIM. Howard,
charged with disturbing the peace of
Sallie Stewart, Feb. 6, 1893. Howard
had a trial in Justice Levens' court
and a jury fined him 81. An appeal
was taken. The case was called TODAY
and continued.
An information was filed this morn
ing against Frederick Schach for oh
public highway in the
of Ingram avenue and the
southern limits of Sedalia. A caprias
was ordered by the court for the arrest |
IF Mr.. Schach.
William Bibee was indicted for
petit larceny, second ofense. VIII
lam stole chickens from W. H. |
Neighors, on March oath. Henry
I.amm appeared tor William and
pleadedmercy for the black man. He
aid the time was when chickens was
not property, but such Was not the
use now and that was not pleaded as
l bar to this prosecution, but he
would plead that the defendant had
been eleven months in Jail.
The count thought that was con-id-
,rable punishment as long as it was
he Pettis county Jail.
Judge Ryland gave Bybee some
good advice about letting other peo-
,le's chickens alone and from him
earned that he had once been q slave