Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-10-10
CONVICTION RECORD.
County Clerk Garriotts Report to
the Secretary of State.
DISTRICT COURT CRIMINAL CALENDAR
For the Year Ending September 80
4i Number of Convictions in Court
During Year and Sentences,
That Were Imposed.
From Fridays Daily.l

From Fridays Daily.l
County Clerk o. j. Garriott has just
completed the compiling of his annual
report of the convictions for crimes and
1nisdemeanors in the Wapello county
district court, for the year ending Sept.
80, 1890. The report is to be sent to
the secretary of state at Des Moines
tnd filed with the others from the 9TH
er counties of the state. 1t is a rather
-y;iluminous document, and while 1T
Shows quite a number of small cases
disposed of it is not as large as the
! list last year which embraced total
of fifty-nine cases. This year there
were eighteen penitentiary sentences,
the longest term being in the case of
John Adams, the colored man who was.
convicted of the cruel assault on Eliza
Hubbartt, on a Wabash train, near this
city, July 81. The terms in the other
eases embrace short sentences. In the
entire list there is not murder, and
the majority of the cases are for mi
nor offenses. As the report will prob
ably prove interesting reading, the
Courier publishes it in full, as follows:
MIR. Garriott's Report.
/, II. q. j. Garliott, clerk of the district
court in and for Wapello county. do
hereby certify the following to be a
full, true and complete return of con-
victions for crimes and misdemeanors
for the district court of said county for
the year ending September So 1899.
Total amount of fines imposed by the
district court of said county during the
year, $1,615.
The following is a list of persons
convicted, their crimes and sentences:
Charles Patterson, burglary, one
year at TT. Madison.
Fred Kingsley, breaking and enter
ing railroad car, Two years at TT. Mad
ts0n.
!, John Murphy, burglary, eighteen
nonths at Fit. Madison.
Nettie Meacham, maintaining house
1t i'll fame, fined $500.
james Meacham, maintaining a gam
bling house, fined $780,.
Lulu B. Hessen, keeping place re-
sorted to for prostitution, fined 500.
Alice Raulf, keeping place resorted
to for prostitution, three months in the
county Jail.
Jessie Reinhart, keeping place resort
, " LII P1oStiLutiol, tIilVC III
the county Jail.
G. j. Stephenson, keeping a house
where drunkenness and breaches OF
peace are committed, fined $25.
G. T.. Taylor, uttering forged check,
one year at TT. Madison.
Felix Morgan, keeping house where
drunkenness and breaches Of the peace
are committed, fined $50
John White, keeping a gambling
house, fined 500.
Frank Mortified, cheating by false
pretense, three years at TT. Madison.
j. B. Wright. larceny, three and a
half years at Fit. Madison.
George Wilson, robbery, four years
At Fit. Madison.
William Russell, assault with intent
TO do great bodily injury, six months
In the county Jail.
William Watson, maintaining a nui-
sance, fined 500.
j. d. Willhite, burglary, one year al
Ft. Madison.
William Lutz, assault and battery
fined s25.
Abe Smith, burglary. one year at TT
Madison.
Lewis Knapp, burglary, two years at
TT. Madison.
Bert Davis, uttering and passing
forged paper, six months at Ft. Madi.
4 son.
Cunningham Stafford, malicious mis-
chief, one year in jail.
Oscar utterbaclS, malicious mischief
six months in Jail.
Jack Munroe, burglary, two years a,
Et Madison
A. Adams, burglary, six months al
Eft. Madison.
Bob Sparks, burglary, one year a,
Fl. Madison.
Samuel Phillips, burglary, one yeal
at TT. Madison.
John Long, larceny, one year in Jail
John Curtis, larceny, one year il
Jail.
John Dawson, assault and battery
fifteen days in Jail.
NJ. C. Powell, selling oleomarger
inc, fined SIS.
John Adams, assault with intent *
commit murder, five years at Ft. Mad
ison.
George Weston, robbery, eightee,
months at Fit. Madison.
Pat Fleming, larceny, ten days il
Jail.
George Barton, attempting to breal
and enter. thirty days in jail.
James Gilbert, attempting to breal
and enter, thirty days in jail.
Walter N. Hart, false pretense, tel
months at Tt. Madison.
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