The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-11-18
The Joint Keepers Begin To Under
stand That They Are Up Against
II, and the Snap is Not So
Soft as Il Was.
MAUzY CONVICTED OF Assault
with Intent to XIII, But Sentence Not
Yet Pronounced A Number of Notes
About Miner Cases
After supper Tuesday the district


against whom an indictment was
found by the late grand jury. Fer
guson's attorney appeared and asked
that the whole thing be dropped for
the reason that while the indictment
read "Art Ferguson" at the top,
thoouRh the body of the instrument
the name was changed 10 ANDREW"
The court refused TO quash the in
dictment and then adjourned until
this morning,
The case of Will +. Gay, charged
| with the theft from the Santa Fe de-
pot last summer OF Prof w. II Olin's
grip, came up in court Tuesday az
| ternoon.
Readers of the REGISTER will re-
membe that Prof DIN conducted the
normal here and one night his grip
containing clothes, shirts, collars,
neckties and some, to him, valuable
papers, was taken from the depot, it
having failed TO connect with the
| train on which he left. suspicion at
tached to VIII Gay, who had jus
been freed from charge of burning
Mr.. Gibbs barn in Elm township.
Gay was located at the Fair grounds
tending horses, and the grip and some
of the clothing was found under the
straw outside the barn in which h,
slept. Brick Herington, now at large
wore the professors trousers AROUND
town and said he bought them of Gay
| Gay tried to soil bunch of whit
shirts to some acquaintance anc
when arrested q note was found o.
his person, signed by himself an,
written to Herington telling h IN to h,
careful. The defense offered in evil
dence testimony to the effect tina
Herington had offered ten dollars to
several persons to swear that he go.
the clothes from Gay.
There was a strong evidence wound
around the young man and the chan
ces of his acquittal seemed very slight
when the jury was sent out The
case went to the jury shortly befor,
Doon and the verdict was guilty as
charged"
}. b. Atchison made a mighty clio
quent plea in behalf of Young Gay be
fore the jury went out. One result OF
II was to put the county attorney, the
head of Allen county populism on thu
defensive for the santa Fe II. II. The
latter had detective at work on the
case and Atchison called him "blood
hound". Mr.. Ritter waxed eloquent
In defense of the care bestowed by the
company on the safety Of its patrons.
Think Of a populist defending a de-
tective! To such lengths did he 90
that he dropped the remark that he
was proud to live in A lien county :"
and that, too, go soon after "a clean Re-
publican sweep. Strange things NAV
be seen in court
By advice OF his attorney, J. b
Atchison, Bob Fivecoats pleaded
guilty to PLAIN assault and was given
80 days in jail and was put under
bond in the sum of $500 to keep the
peace for two years to come. He
thus escapes from paying the penalty
for drawing knife on the train crew
and for resisting the officers.
The public ls pretty well informed
of the general story of the shooting
Mauzy returned home, suspected
Strickland, a boarder, of intimacy
with his wife, called Strickland out
side the house and shot him twice
in the, left breast. The wound did
not prove serious and, strange to re-
late. no one seems able to swear that
MauZy did the shooting. After
wandering around half the night,
Mauzy gave himself up at the Jail.
Since the preliminary Mrs. Mauzy
has left for parts unknown and just
how much the state will be able to
show lie a question.
The trial was very brief the defense
introducing no witnesses except
Mauzy himself, and one man who tess
titled to his good character Mauzy
admitted the shooting but claimed
self defense. The case went to the
jury at o'clock. Amp at the jury
brought in verdict OF guilty.
The court opened Thursday with
the first of the twenty-five liquor cas-
es which are to be tried. The court
room was packed and besides the
usual onlookers there was goodly
sprinkling of ministers on the front
row and joint keepers in the rear.
The first case called WAS that of Joe
Langley, alias Joe Cockey, of Hum
boldt. Both prosecuting and defend
ing counsel used every privilege of
challenge and the regular jury panel
was exhausted and private citizen
called in before the jury was accepted.
The prosecution at one time was fairly