San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-02-24
IN RESPECT OF JUDGE WALTHALL.
NO SESSION OF DISTRICT COURTS
THIS MORNING.
A Committee Appointed to Draft
Resolutions at a Meeting of the
Bar-A Sensational Divorce Suit
Other News of the Courts.

Extreme quletude rCtgned around tn
county court house this morning NJ
courts were in session. out Of respect Il
the late l.. N. WaIthall. whose remains
were inferred this morning The Thirty
seventh District court convened at
o'clock this afternoon, and will adjourn
today for the March term, which com.
menceS on March 5.
The application for writ of habeas
corpus for Mrs. Rhoda Harris, asking to
be released from the custody of the sher-
iff, has been granted through mistake.
By agreement with Judge J. r. Fleming.
counsel Tor Mrs Harris, the writ will not
be heard, and therefore Mrs Harris will
have TO linger behind the bars until her
trial. vixen 1t will be decided whether or
not she will be sent to the penitentiary.
The grand jury will make its final re-
| port this afternoon and adjourn. 1t ia
expected that true bill will be found
against Mrs. Rhoda Harris for per.
! jury. District Attorney Camp Is high
| ly pleased with the work of the present
! grand jury and says, not since he has
been IN Office has any jury had so many
| felony cases to act upon.
| TO DRAFT RESOLUTIONS.
About thirty members of the bar met in
| the Thirty-Seventh District court room
| at 1890 o'clock this afternoon TO appoint
| committee TO draft resolutions OF re.
spect in memory of the late L. n. Wal
thall, a member Of the bar. The meeting
was called TO order bv II. p. Drought, and
Oh motion OF s G. Newton, the Hon. A.
w. Houston was appointed chairman and
Captain Robert b. Green, secretary. The
chairman was authorized TO appoint
committee 10 draft resolutions for three
courts, viz: The Thirty seventh District,
the Forty fifth District and the Fourth
Court of Civil Appeals. The following
gentlemen were appointed a committee:
Colonel John A. Green, Sr., chairman;
Hon. S. G. Newton. Hon. II. p. Drought,
Hon. T. H. Franklin aud Hon. T. M
Warrington. The committee Is expected
to report next Monday, week.
TOOK HIS MONEY AND LEFT.
A very interesting petition for divorce
was filed by Messrs. Hays & NcGlnnis
In the seventh District conrt this
afternoon. In the petition Emile Schropf
is the plaintiff and May Schropf defend
ant. Emile Schropf is bartender In the
Officers club at Port Sam Houston, and
his grounds tor divorce are cruel treat
mnnt.
They were married on July %, 1893, and
on last December, the husband claims, |
that his wife conspired with
one Grant Newman. soldier, |
and caused SchrODf TO be arrested and
brought before Justice Anton Adam on |
charge OF threatening to take her life. 1t |
is further alleged that Mrs. Schropt has
met other men, besides Grant Newman,
and has written letters and notes to
them to meet her and told one
Rachel Cook and others that she did not
love her husband and wanted to get
a better man: that she left Schropf on the
18th day OF the present month without
any notice and stole about $50 worth of |
his private property and tore up and
destroyed his pictures. The husband al
50 states that his wife has at times struck |
him. and rendered his life burden.
WANT POSSESSION OF THEIR PROPERTY.
A. Pplleton and wife filed petition in |
the FOrty-tifth District court this after
noon, complaining Of +. V. Bee, who,
1t IS claimed, elected plaintiffs from their |
premises on San Saba street on February
26, 1892 and now wrOngfully with0ldS the |
possession OF that property Of plaintiffs, |
damage of 500 The petition
alleges that Feecita Pelleton,
wife of A. PeIIetoD, was the |
legal and equitable owner Of that prop |
erty on March 1, 1892, caused by the |
death of her parents. The suit was tried
in the same court at the last October
term ard judgment was rendered for de- |
PENDANT. Plaintiff now shows that other |
material evidence has been secured and
therefore petitions for a review IF the
case as well as rehearing.
AFTER A BAD MAN.
T. S. TarbuttOn, deputy sheriff OF |
Smith county, Is in town from Tyler. He |
is here to take "Sonine" Clements, col
Ored, in custody and will leave for home |
with his prisoner today. Clements is
charged with assault to rob. He attack
ed negro, named John Smith, and cut
his over coat in making the assault. Gle.
ments bears the reputation OF hard man
and has committed number OF crimes in
Smith county.
COURT NEWS NOTES.
Judgments nisi for $500 were rendered
against Max SamuelS, Jack DOLier, and
Shorty Livingston, in the Thirty seventh
District court yesterday, charged with
gaming. There were four cases against
Livingston, and the bond forfeited for
him amounts to 81 200.
The appeal in the case against VIII
Fisher, COlOred, charged with burglary
and theft, who was sentenced to four
years by Judge NOonan yesterday, has
been Withdrawn.
An agreed decree was entered In the
Thirty seventh District court yesterday
afternoon, providing for partition OF the
TwOhig estate among the various heirs
and legatees.
Charles Davis and Jim Mccormick were
awarded one day each in the county Jail
by Judge NOODan Yesterday afternoon,
charged with theft under $50.
CCharles Mayerstadt filed suit to try
title and for damages in the sum OF $500
against Roland Goering in the Forty-fft
District court this morning.
Mr.. Vests Appointment.