Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-18
CASE IS CONTINUED
Miss Viola Horlocker is Arraigned and is
Granted Postponement,
WILL BE CALLED AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER
County Judge and Attorneys for Defense
Have Lively Row,
LATTER WANT GIRL ARRAIGNED AT HOME
Judge is 0bdurate and Oompels Her to Be
Brought Into Court.
ACCUSED YOUNG WOMAN APPEARS WEAK
Has to lie Carried from Cab to Court
Room-County Attorney McCrenry
Puts Twenty Witnesses for
the state Under Bond.

the state Under Bond.
| HASTINGS, Neb., May 17.-(Special Tele-
| gram.)-Miss Viola Horocker appeared be-
! fore County Judge Bowen this morning at
o'clock, as per continuance of her pre-
! liminary hearing, to answer the charge OF
| having made an attempt to take the life of
Mrs. Charles Morey by sending her box Of
poisoned candy on Monday afternoon April
! 10. Her attorneys waived examination and
she was bound over in the sum of 1000 to
| appear at the equity term OF the district
| court, September rs.
The proceedings took place in the county
! judges room in the presence of about fifty
people. The small audience was accounted
! for by the clever ruse which the attorneys
! played by having II announced that the case
would be heard up stairs in the district
! court room. There were nearly 500 people
waiting patiently in the district court room
while the legal proceedings were in progress
/ down stairs. This caused some to grow
| angry as there were many who had driven
| miles to attend the preliminary hearing OF
| Miss Horocker
About $3.50 this morning Hon. John NJ
! Ragan, John Stevens, Judge Burton and R.
A. Batty, attorneys for the defense, appeared
before County Judge Bowen and attempted
BILE to bring Miss Horlocker to the court
| room on account of her illness and weak
condition. During the conversation County
| Judge Bowen said that he was in the habit
| of speaking the plain truth about matters
and that he had heard that the counsel for
the defendant We're trying to fool and de-
ceive the court and county attorney.
To this Hon. John NJ. Ragan replied,
THANK you for being so frank. / will
simply say that it'e lie."
Attorneys Have n Row.
By this time all the attorneys present be-
came angry and things looked grave. The
attorneys for the defendant then accused
the county attorney of having made the
statement that DR.. w. II. Lynn told him
Judge Bowen, that DR.. Lynn had only been
attending the girl during the last three
days and that Lynn had further said the
girl was only making a grand stage play.
The attorneys Immediately sent for DR..
Lynn with the intention Of putting him on
the witness stand to deny the statement
Attorney Ragan again appealed to the court
in behalf Of the girls condition and tried
to persuade the judge to have the legal
proceedings take place at the home of the
accused, but the judge said there was only
one place where he would hold court ana
that was in the court house The judge
said this so emphatically that Attorney RAJ
gan Immediately whirled around and sais
to the physician:
Go bring the girl IL It kills her; the
dignity of the court must be maintained /"
At 9:20 the cab containing Miss Horlooker
was driven to the east entrance of the court
house and she was assisted from the hack
by her brother-in-law, Mr.. Hayes, Dr. w.
II. Lynn and her sister. Fora She walked
, part OF the way to the entrance but was
compelled to stop every five or six feet
When she reached the inside of the court
house she was placed in a chair and thus
carried into the county judges office. Miss
Fora sat beside her sister, who soon ap-
peared very weak and looked as If she were
about to faint. She said to her sister that
, she was very weak and then laid her head
down upon the table and began breathing
hard. She shook and trembled al times but
no sobs escaped from her lips. Miss Viola
was dressed in black, trimmed with crepe
but wore dark blue veil through which
her large, black, piercing eyes would shine
and sparkle at times.
VALVES Examination.
The counsel for the accused informed the
court that they were ready to proceed and
would waive examination. 1t was then no.
: ticed that County Attorney McCreary was
y absent from the room, so the Judge ordered
: Sheriff Smmering to find the county attor-
bond Of $4,000 was drawn up, so when Mr.
> McCreary arrived it was duly read and
handed to Miss Horlocker for her signature.
She took considerable time to remove her
glove and with the assistance of her sister,
, who helped to steady her hand, Miss Viola
took nearly ten minutes in which TO place
her name upon the legal document. AS soon
r as this was accomplished she breathed a
deep breath and gave sigh of relief The
| gGs k,, nhn
Robert Batty, George Hayes and Al Clarke,
) president of the First National bank. As
n soon as the bond was given to the county
= Judge he dismissed court
y When the proceedings were through with
n Miss Horlocker did not make any effort to
d arise, so Attorneys Ragan and Stevens car
& ried her out to the cab in chair and ac-
a companed her home.
u Assisted Into the House.
@ As soon as the cab stopped at the Hor-
y locker residence Viola remarked to her at
a torneys that she felt some stronger and at
q tempted to walk unassisted to the house,
l. but fell down before she had gone ten feet.
D, She was then assisted inuo the house and
II soon retired to her bed
II Immediately after court was adjourned
|, County Attorney McCreary called twenty Of
o hia witnesses to his office and put them all
e under recognizance of 800 each. The wit
r. ncsses for the plaintiff are Anna ii. Morey,
e Charles F. Morey, George w. Tibbets, Phil
n lip Fuller Il. J. Cox, Martha Pottinger,
l. Frank McElhinney Dick Dowd, Albert II.
e Farrens, W. II. Dillon, Emma Nordstrom,
II Eleanor Kirby Dr. John Cooke, II. NJ. VIII
- liams, Dr. c. V. Artz, NJ r, Barnes, Will
Il liam Saint Claire, William J. Shut, Belle
d Rand and Mrs. Elizabeth Gasln.
e When Mr., McCreary was asked to his
reason for putting all his witnesses under
recognzance he said he proposed to have
every one of his witnesses on hand at the
al December term OF the district court and
l. give testimony for the state, as he was posi-
= five with the evidence they would give Miss