Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-23
IN and 0UNDTBE CITY
The United States Court Still Busy
and q Number of Cases Dis
posed of.
Prisoners Arraigned to Receive Their
Sentences in the United States
81" Court.
A Number of Jail Sentences for the
Illegal Selling of Liquor to
Indians.
City Council Holds a Special Meet
ing to Draw Names for the
Jury List.
From Thursdays Daily!
United States Court.

from 4uuTsuAyS Dal1ys!
United States Court.
In the case of the United StateI
against John Frederick, charged will
abstracting lumber from the government
properties at Fort Lincoln, Judge
Thomas yesterday afternoon directed
vedict of not guilty, the testimony show
ing that more than a year had elapsed
from the time the lumber had beer
missed, until it was found in the pos
session of the defendant.
This morning the three men Busskie
Spanier and Brown, charged with selling
liquor to Indians on the Fort Totten
Reservation, we're arraigned and all
three pleaded guilty.
The Tlbbils case was then taken up,
and a motion for continuance was argued
by the attorneys for the defense. This
argument occupied the forenoon, and a
part of the afternoon session.
From Fridays Daily.]
Prisoners Sentenced.
The arrangement of prisoners for SEN
tence, was the first order of procedure III
the United States court this morning.
Before this, however, Attorney Glaspell
appeared for his client, John Harrington
who was found guilty of passing counter
felt money, and moved for an arrest of
judgment, arguing the insuficiency of
the Indictment, in that it did not allege
that the defendant had knowledge that
the obligation in his possession, was a
forged obligation. Judge Thomas, after
hearing the argument, suspended sem
tence of the accused until the next term
OF United States court at Fargo, pend
ing the presentation of briefs of the law
on the subject by the attorneys, and the
case will be finally argued and decided
there.
The arraignment of Busskie, who
plead guilty to selling liquor to Indians
followed. Busskie is an old soldier, and
had been advised by his friends before
the commission of the offense to go to
the soldiers home. In consideration of
several mitigating circumstances in bis
case, Judge Thomas said he would i'm
pose a light sentence, and gave the de-
PENDANT thirty days in the Ramsey coun-
ty jail, and a fine of $40, and advised
him upon the expiration of his sentence
to go to the soldiers home.
Walemar Spanier was the next to come
up for sentence for the same ofense.
Spanier said he did not know he was
committing a crime when he sold the
liquor to the Indians, and said he had
been in Jail ninety-fve days, await
ing his trial. He was sentenced to sixty
days in the Ramsey county jail and to
pay a fine of $25.
Chas. Brown was next called to be
sentenced for the same offense. In CON
sideration of a petition which had been
presented in Browns behalf, which set
forth reasons for %leniency, the judge i'm
posed a sentence of ten days in the Ram
sey county jail and a fine of 81.
Thomas Freit was next called, for
sentence in the Gardner postofhce rob-
berry case. Fret had nothing to say
when asked why sentence should not be
pronounced. Judge Thomas said he
would take into consideration thu fact
that the prisoner had pleaded guilty
Fret, he said, was young, and would
learn that it was poor practice to com
NIT oHenses against the United States
government. He was then sentenced to
one years Imprisonment at hard labor
at the government p%enitentiary at Sioux
Falls, and to pay a fine of 500, and stand
committed until paid.
Frank Pomeroy, Freit's partner in the
same case, who also pleaded guilty, was
given the same sentence, one years i'm.
prisonment, and a fine of S1OO.
Robert Hatton, who plead not guilty
to the same offense and who was found
guilty, was called, and in consideration
of some circumstances which had arisen
in his case, sentence was deferred for the
time being.
A number of prisoners were also ar.
raigned for pleading on the charge Of
selling liquor TO the Indians at the
Turtle Mountain reserve. John Ander.
son, Pierre Foy, F. B. SENEGAL and Her.
man Dumortingue plead guilty to the
charge, and were sentenced to terms Of
imprisonment in Jail, averaging sixty
days, while some we're fined 1926 in add.
ton. Jerry Ford, another prisoner who
was arraigned on the same..charge, plead
not guilty, and his case was continued
until the July term of court at Devils
Lake.
From Saturdays Daily.]
Adjourned.
To all intents and purposes, United
States court adjourned yesterday after
noon, as the calendar was finished yes
terday morning, when sentences were
pronounced upon the prioners who had
been convicted or plead guilty. The
bailiffs and attaches were not discharged