The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-21
JUDGE HAZEN'S WORK.
There's a Big Docket for September
Term of Court.
CRIMINAL CASES 65, CIVIL CASES 4OS.

Court Opens September ga List Of
the Criminal Cases With Synopsis
of More Important Ones
There will be an unusually large num-
Der of cases to be tried in the district
court during the September term There
are 400 civil actions, and IS criminal
cases, making a total of Alb to be dis
posed of. There are some yet to go on
the docket.
The abolishing of the circuit court by
the legislature last winter has Increased
the docket by about fifty cases which
were pending in that court
The April term OF court is supposed to
be still in session and will not be ad-
journed until Saturday, August 81, one
day before the opening of the September
term.
Judge Hazen makes the following an
nouncements: Monday, August 20, he
will decide cases and motions which he
has under advisement, but not any con-
tested cases; Saturday, the 31st, will be
allowed attorneys interested in the cases
decided by the judge on Monday, to file
motions. On that day the court will meet
and the April term will be adjourned
AS Monday Sept 2, the first day Of the
session is Labor Day, the court will SIM
ply meet and adjourn until Tuesday
devoted to the hearing of motions and
arguments on questions of law. Then
on September the criminal docket will
be taken up and Judge Hazen antici-
pates that thirty days will be sufficient
to dispose of it:
The criminal cases set for trial are as
follows:
2742-state vs.. Peter Callahan, selling
liquor.
2745-State VS.. Jas. Conwell and Ed
ward Conwell. selling liquor.
2751-Stste VS.. Larson, selling liquor.
2794 State Va. John Doe, selling liquor
2e5O-State VS.. Mrs. Hare, selling
liquor.
The last three of these persons have
left the country. Doe was never arrested.
2645-State vs., Fred Durein, keeping
and maintaining a common nuisance.
2961-State va. Hum YOungman,
training for prize fight
2S62-State va. Bradshaw, training for
a prize fight
Durein's ofense is keeping a drinking
club. Youngman and Bradshaw fought
prize fight in Usage county. AS the
authorities OF that county refused to
take action, they were arrested here for
training in Shawnee county, which is
against the law.
2s75-State VS.. Frank Zimmerman,
selling liquor.
28T6-State Us. Rudolph Frank Novels,
murder, first degree.
This is the celebrated Matson murder
case. Novels was tried at the April
term, but the jury failed to agree, one
man holding out for acquittal.
2SS7-Topeka va. Frank Zimmerman,
selling liquor.
2sss-Topeka va. Fred Jewell, disturb
ing the peace
29s9-Topeka vs. George Burghart,
disturbing the peaca
2892-Topeka vs.. George Il Rhodes,
appeal
2s98-state vs.. Minnie Moody, keeping
disorderly house.
2s94-State vs.. Amos Brubaker and
Charles w. Watson, larceny. Brubaker
was convicted at the last term of court
Of stealing hogs of Lon Beal of Valencia.
They demanded separate trials.
2S94-State vs. John BirdWhistle, Grim
lnal assault
299s-TOpeka vs. Lii Tack, street
walking.
2ss9-state Va Robert Nicely, selling
liquor.
29OO-state va N. TulIes, selling
2902-State VS.. - Karr, selling liquor.
2904-State vs.. Richard Oliver, assault
2905-Stste vs.. George l. Harris, OBJ
tanning goods under false pretences
2906-State VS.. George Hanley, burg
larry.
This is the case in which the Johnson
Nobel candy company accuse their land
lord, q we'll known citizen, of burgIariz-
ing their store.
2908-Topeka vs.. Robert Kneisler,
selling liquor.
29O8-state vs. Nate Williams, assault
and battery, appeal
2sI0-Topeka va S. Cope, fast driving.
2912-State va. John NJ. Baughman,
criminal assault
29Is-Topeka vs.. W. A. Karr, selling
liquor.
to the state, Is Cope gave him security