The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-01
TERM OPENS MONDAY.
District Court WiIlKSoon Resume It's
EabOrs.


District court will convene in regular
October term next Monday, and the
grand jury will begin it's work the fol-
lowing day. ALI jurors are required,
however, to report for duty at the
opening session of court.
The first casesfwhich the grand jury
will dispose of are those of the prison.
ers in the county Jail, who have been
held under bonds and confined. There
are number of such cases, although
County Attorney Anderson does not
expect to secure indictments in every
one. The jail cases are as follows:
Frederick and Frank Delony, horse
stealing, brought from New Brighton;
B. F. Henry, forgery; Frank Steffany
and ]. H. Lynch, highway robbery,
William Irving, burglary in the first
degree; W. E. Gassaway, assault with
dangerous weapon; H. Faribault,
burglary or grand larceny in the Sec
ond degree; j. W. Gray, Grant Con-
nors, John Coyne, Richard Leonard,
grand larceny in the second degree;
perjury; Nick Parks, assault with q
dangerous weapon; Harry Hansen, for
attempt to commit an unmentionable
crime; Nicholas ConZen and George
Williams, grand larceny in the first de-
gree; Rudolph Stephan, burglary in the
first degree; G. Bundle, malicious de-
struction of property, valued at $500;
Joseph Chyscracek, Joseph Mashoen.
John Mason, Albert Matakavftz and
Carl Schultz, larceny. of logs; F'reder-
lex Fisher, rape; Frank Raab and
Nicholas Leonard, grand larceny in
the second degree.
On the criminal calendar there will
be a number of continued cases, i'll
which indictments have been returned.
The trial of Frank o. Ryan, indicted
for grand larceny in the first degree
undoubtedly will not be tried. He dis
appeared before the indictment was
secured against him.
William Dawson and William Daw-
son Jr., president and cashier respect
lively of the defunct Bank of Mime
sofa, are docketed for trial under sew
eral indictments. There are two bills
against the younger Dawson-one al
leging a false rentry on the banks
books, involving 100000 and the other
charging him with making a false re-
port to the bank examiner of the in
stitutions conditions William Dawson
is charged in one case with grand
larceny in the first degree, the instance
being where he is alleged to have adj
vanced to the St. Paul Plow company
inSolvent, $97 900 of the banks funds
The DawsonS are also indicted jointly
in which case they are charged with
extracting 1921 ,223. OF from the bank
and the younger Dawson is under still
another indictment, in which it is al
legged that he committed grand larceny
in the first degree by taking $4,000 of
the banks funds Attorney w. w. En-
win will look after the defense of these
ex-bankers, and it is understood that
he will be assisted by an array OF
prominent criminal lawyers. Mr.. Irwin
called on County Attorney Anderson
yesterday afternoon and asked him II
any more cases against the Dawsons
would be brought to the attention of
the next grand jury The county at
torney said he thought not. No new
matters of criminal nature in con-
nection with the failure of the Bank
of Minnesota had been brought to his
attention and he thought the state had
sufficient material with which to work
without crowding the prosecution of
the eX-bankerS. -
The case of grand larceny in the first
degree against Abraham Wolfberg will
be called, but as the alleged swindler
is supposed to be in Russia, his case
will go over Wolfberg sWindled a
number of Hebrews residing on the
West side out of about $500 and dis
appeared.
Other old cases are those against
Peter Larsen, assault in the second de-
gree; Louis Zschau, grand larceny in
the first degree; Adolph Schneider, as
sault in the second degree; William
Patton indecent assault, and William
Bickel, a trustee of the defunct Mime
sofa Savings bank, misrepresentation Of
funds.
The cases against J. F. Baker and a
S. Kittson, trustees of the insolvent
Minnesota Savings bank charged with
grand larceny in the second and first
degrees respectively, are on the docket.
Mr.. Kittson is accused of misappropri-
ating S12194.55 of the banks funds
William F. Bickel, vice president of
the same bank, probably will be tried
for grand larceny in the first degree
for the alleged misappropriation OF
S5.9S3.67 of the institutions money.