The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-08-13
THE DISTRICT COURT.

and its session promises to be an interesting
enc. The business was as follows:
Monday ne hrst business brfore III,
Court was the application Of John Dolan {,
be admitted to citizenship. The ~itnesse
were ). D. Campbell and A. J. Goodrich
aud after satisfactorily answering the quest
ions and taking oath Of allegiance, uaturali
zation papers we're issued.
The neat was the case Of Frank Passin
We. james NesbI.t which was called and re
ported ready Tor trial. F. Y Murphy ap
pearing Tor the plaintiff and Geo. s. Sawyer
and Benz. Sanders for the defendant Thil
is the case o. Frank Passiui suing jan,
Nesbitt for assaulting him with a prospect,
ORE pick, and who was badly battered 81
about the head. After hearing the evidenc,
Of both sides the jury returned verdict il
favor Of the plaintiff for $500 and costs.
The case was given to the jury at o'clock,
and the verdict was handed in about mid
night.
A bench warrant was issued for John c.
Lynch and Andy Shelburg, which wa,
placed in the hands Of the sheriff for service
they failing to answer to their names when
called as jurors
Tuesday-Court opened at $50 a. m.
and proceeded to try the case Of the State
VS.. Ute V. Perkins and Henry Robertson,
charged with unlswfully killing Of cattle in
the Clover Valley range. The case was
stubbornly fought and occupied the whole
day. The animal killed was that of L. L.
Woods. The killing was admitted, but the
plea was made that was it done to secure beet
for camp, and that it was the practice to
kill beef Unfortunately for this purpose
when out on cattle ranges.
The case was submitted to the jury at Q
o'clock in the evening, and about o'clock
in the morning verdict of not guilty was
returned to the court and the defendants
were released from custody.
Dan Mandich applied for final papers of
citizenship, which were issued, his witnesses
being Henry Eilers aud Ed. f. Prudential
Wednesday-Cou met at $3.50 O'Clock.
J. c. Lynch and Andy Shelburg. jurors for
whose appearance bench warrant was is
sued on Monday, appeared, and on show
ing OF sickness, which prevented attendance,
were admonished by the Court, but not
fined.
On calling the case Of the State VS.
Charles Williams, one Of the persons impli.
Gated in raiding Persons pasture in Pah.
ranagat valley last May, the prosecution
asked for a continuance of the case, to
which the defendant consented, the object
being to try both Wilson and Williams, or
neither, and Wilson not being recaptured
since his escape from Jail here three weeks
ago, the case was continued for the term.
An inquiry into the mental condition of
Edwin Hall, the man who last week emptied
the contents of shotgun into one of his
neighbors at DeLamar, was taken up. BY
his own statements, which were voluble and
freely made, Hall was speedily found to be
fit subject for the State Hospital for
Mental Diseases at Reno.
The mans hallucination is that for fifteen
years or more he has been followed and an.
noyed by persons who. by poisoning his
food, and 'doping him, as he expressed it,
while asleep, have rendered him weak and
miserable, and that while he had never
spoken to the man he shot, yet he believed
the man had exercised bad influence over
him and so took shot at him. He said
the prosecutions against him were continued
during the three days he was confined at the
DeLamar Jail, but that since coming to the
Phoebe Jail he had slept and rested we'll
Must be the climate. He will be taken to
Reno in few days.
The case of Nesbitt Bros. VS.. Passini oc.
cupied the afternoon and evening. Plant.
ifs sued for S3S9.7l on q stated account
Defendant made countercaim of Sl56. 90
Plaintiffs failed to prove their account as
sued on and the jury awarded Passini
Sl3S.O0
To-day the case of Ben Padget VS. John
Herman has occupied the attention of the
court