Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1897-12-31

Brunswick tomorrow Saturday after
noon at O'Clock and will be followed
by interment in Elliott Grove cemetery
His last repose Is like one who
has calmly drawn the robes
of his couch about him and lain
down to pleasant dreams. He win be
missed wherever known, but most, OF
course, by his wife and children who
so ardently revered and adored him.
The CRIMINAL Calendar.
VIM. Blackwell, white man 20
years Of age, was brought to Keytes-
vile Wednesday by Constable Richard
Ashby Of Brunswick and lodged in jail
upon a commitment issued from JUS
tice c. E. Finch's court. Blackwell is
charged upon the affidavit of George
w. Cunningham, administrator of the
estate OF DR.. ]. F. Cunningham, with
c.tting and appropriating to his own
use 80 hickory trees valued at S.. and
belonging to DIR. j. T. Cunningham $
heirs. When taken before Justice
Finch, Blackwell's bond was fixed at
Sioo, which he was unable to give.
hence was committed to jail to await
his trial, which was set for Tuesday.
January 4th.
A miniature 'race war" between
the white and colored tough elements at
Brunswick took place last Friday and
Saturday nights. Nocorpses, however,
were discovered after the din and smoke
OF battle had subsided and cleared
away, but few sore heads and black
ened optics, followed in the wake OF, the
.conhlct. Three arrests have resulteo
so, far, viz: Bob Magruder ano
Elias Watkins, charged with assaulting
Nora Rigby. negro barber, and wm.
lCavanah, charged with sssaulting
Chass =. Ford sol I The Defendants
viii; ~ BE- 4ied before Justice g; w;
day, January 4th.
g.
The case of the state against G. w.
Rutledge, the Dalton liveryman whose
arrest upon suspicion of having been a
party to the theft of 1000 pounds OF
wool from G. B. Hurt of near Shannon
dale the 2Ist Of last June was chron-
icled in the last issue of the COURIER,
was called in Justice 7. M. DeMoss'
court at Keytesville last Wednesday,
but no preliminary trial was had for
the reason that Prosecuting Attorney
Collet had made the discovery since
Rutledge's arrest that Richard Roe, "
legal term for an unknown party,
had been indicted by the grand jury
at the last July term of circuit court at
Salisbury in connection with Burl Jones
who was arrested at Marshall, Saline
county, shortly after Mr.. Hurts WOO
was stolen, Jones having been the
young man who sheared the sheep from
which the clip was feloniously appro.
priated and hauled to Moberly where
II was sold to 1. Weisburg & Co. A:
stated in the COURIER last week Rut
ledge was identified by John Mosely a.
the man for whom he hitched uI
the team at S. B. Elliott's livery stable
in Salisbury with which the wool wa.
conveyed to Moberly, and also by Ed
Miller, I. weisburg & Co.'s clerk, a,
the man from whom he bought tn,
wool. Notwithstanding this seeming
unquestionable Identification, Rut
ledge's friends claim that he will b,
be able to establish an alibi when hi
case goes to trial at the ensuing Jan
uary term of circuit court at Salisbury
Owing to the fact that Rutledge hac
been previously indicted, proceeding
against him were dismissed by TIT
prosecuting attorney last Wednesday
and he was thereupon arrested upon
capias issued from the circuit cour
last July, which fixed his bond a
$1,000 but the prisoner was unable Il
give the required bail, and was com
mitted to jail. Rutledge's attorney
L. n. Dempsey, insisted upon a pre-
liminary trial, but Prosecuting Attor
ney Collet held that as the accused
: had already been indicted for the OF