San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-19


in session until April 80
Austin Browns days on earth ar
counted.
He will die on the Scaffold in the Bexar
county jail, on NAV %, betweea clever
O'Clock IN the forenoon and sunset.
Judge NOonan passed the sentence up
on him this afternoon at 2:2O o'clock.
Brown said all he had to say was thai
he did not have no fair show"
Very few spectators were in the court
room at the time, as it was generally re-
| ported that the sentence would be passed
| tomorrow.
| The case against Rhoda Harris, accus
| ed OF being an accessory TO the murder OF
| her husband Anderson Harris, has been
continued until the next term of rourt.
Long Tom, alias Tom Saunders, plead
| ed guilty to a charge of gaming in the
| Thirty-Seventh District court this morn
| Ing, and was fined S25 and given ten days
in jail
G. N. Herman pleaded guilty to a
| charge of diSOrderlV conduct thi> morn
ing and was fined $40 and costs. This case
was appealed from The Recorders
court.
JudGe Noonan this morning granted a
motion of defendant for a new trial, in a
case of j. w White vs.. A. n. Galloway,
on commissions, appealed from the JUS
ticp court.
Defendants motion for new trial in a
case OF A NJ. Cohen VS.. Fl b. Adams, for
oeht, was Overruled. Defendant excepted
and gave notice Of appeal.
A motion to dismiss appeal was over
ruled in a case against James Nelson,
appealed from Judge E. Griff Jones
cOnrt, Nelson is charged with ha> ing
wiifuly poisoned dog belonging to DR..
J. H. Moore, on August IA, 1888 He was
tried before Judge jones last August l6,
and fined S25 and appealed the case.
Judge NoODau fined Nelson S25 and costs
of court.
A Ease against 'old man"Yantis for
committing assault and battery upon
Joe Apall n February %, 1898, was dis
missed by The state today. The case had
been tried in Judge JIneS' court and
YantS was fined S2S 95, and gave notice
OF appeal.
NEW SUITS FILED.
John J. Jackson VS.. Vodrie & Co., on
sworn account.
Johanna Stevens VS. Lewis NJ. Gregory
ct al, on prOmissOry note and to fOrecose
lien.
r c. Russell VS.. r II. Russell ct al, on
prOmiSsorY note and to fOrrcOSe lien.
Louis FraSS and wife VS.. the Interna-
tiOnal Building and Loan association, for
cancellation of lien, etc
4. C. Frost VS.. r r. Claridge ct al, on
prOmSSOry note and 10 fOrPClOse lien
s TarantinO vs.. Emily TarantinO, d.
vorce.
FORTY FIFTH DISTRICT COURT.
In the Forty-ffth District court this
morning, in a case of 5. NJ. Ellis VS.. the
Missouri Pacific and the international
and Great North IN Railway companies,
for damages. the administrator entered
his appearance, and the case was dis
missed.
In the case of CandeIaria C. de Ybarbo
VS.. John B. Neuendorff, 10 try title and
for damages, for which jury had been
impanelled, Attorney G Fisk for plain
tiff, took DOn-SuiL last evening.
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THE GRAND JURY ADJOURNs.
The grant jury presented its final re-
port to Judge NOOnan this afternoon and
adj urned. In the report the jury rec
UmmendS that all visitors, both male
and femalA, be searched before being
PRINTED to have personal inter
views with the prisoners, in order to
prevent escapes and suicides.
Cases have been reported as follows
curing the term Of the present grand
jury: For murder, two: g neral felUnieS,
%. and mSdpmpanOrS, As
They found bills of Indictment against
twenty tran,greSSOrS To-Day.
FIFTEEN YEARS FOR EXON.
As stated in the LIGHT yesterday. the
ev dence in the case against w. 5. Exon,
charged with rape, on trial in the Thirty
seventh District court, seemed stronger
for the state in this trial than in the for
mer.
And so it was, for Exon was found gull
~, and h punishment assessed at fifteen
years at hard labor in the penirentiary.
The argument was closed by District
Attorney Camp last evening and a few
minutes of o'clock the jury brought in
the verdict
Exon IS a farmer residing near the Sa-
lado, several miles east of San Antonio,
and is guilty. of having ravished his
twelve year-uld step daughter, Martha
Helm, on several occasions.
From the evidence it was learned that
he hid threatened to kill the child if she
would betIay him and that one night the
girl availed herself OF an opportunity and
escaped from his presence. She came to
San Antonio and repOr ted it to the au-
JhOritieS. Exon was shortly thereafter
arrested ana placed in Jail. In his former
trial the jury failed to agree.