Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-11
A HEAVY DOCKET.

county In the state of Kansas was
there 90 heavy a criminal docket la
the district court as Cherokee coun'
~ 10 afflicted with for the Septem.
Der term of the district court, which
convened on Tuesday of this week
-thirty-four cases on the Grim,
inai docket and ten of them are for
murder In the first degree.
Among the many important Grim
iual cases on the docket Ia the Gaze
of the State of Kansas vs. Alexander
Warner, Benz. S. Warner, A. A. War.
ner and Russell ID. Davis. These
parties are charged with having re-
ceived deposits in the late lament.
ed Baxter bank when they knew
that institution was In an insolveni
condition. They had preliminary
hearing before Justice T. II. vii.
liams several weeks ago and were
bound over to the district court
This case will be hard fought one
on the part of the defense. but un
less there il some tcchnicality by
which they can escape. il is believ'
ed that Col. Alexander Warner and
BENZ. s. Warner will surely be con-
victed. 1t seems to be the general
impression that A. A. Warner and
Russell d. Davis will go free, as
they should. II ia not necessary TO
state here the details of this case.
as most of our readers are familiar
with them.
The murder cases are as follows:
VIM. McGavick is charged with the
murder of his mistress, Mary Bris
coe. The parties are colored and the
killing took place at Galena.
Jerry McMurray aud Vim. Haw-
kins are charged with numbering
and throwing Matthew McGurk in.
to a shaft at Galena last February.
John Poteau is charged with kill
ing Geo. Roark at Weir City because
the latter hadn't paid for some bee'
purchased at Poteau's place.
Samuel Mitchell is charged with
killing Link Cole at Empire City !
few weeks ago. While in the dis
charge of his duty as city marsha
of Empire City several months ago
Cole found il necessary to kill VIM
Mitchell. Cole was arrested, tried
and acquitted, aud it seems that
Williams brother. Sam, harbored
i'll feeling toward Cole, and in n II
of anger killed him.
Another case from Galena is thai
of the State of Kansas Va. Eb. Mar
tin and ]. E. Killian. These partiee
are charged with the murder oftwo
men named Johnson and futile a.
Galena about three months ago. tn,
trouble arising over ii common rop'
swing.
One Of the meanest murder cases
ON the docket il the case against
Ed. Stafflebach, Gco.Stafflebach and
Nancy Wilsoi. who are charged
with killing Frank Galbreath and
throwing his body into shaft sew
cral weeks ago. The Stafflebachs
are a hard set and are no doub
guilty of almost every crime on the
calendar. They are a depraved set
and value human life very lightly.
In addition TO the thirty-four cas-.
es on the criminal docket there ART
thirty seven civil jury cases. Among
these are several suits against Col.
Warner. growing out OF
the failure of the Baxter bank.
On the court trial docket there are
seventy.four cases, and about hit
teen OF them are cases arising from
the "busted community known as
the Baxter bank.
In addition to above cases is one
in which Sam Spencer shot a man
named Ben Powell, but Powell did
not die. This case was settled in
the justice court at Galena, where
the shooting took place.
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