The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-03-15
INDICTMENTS
Galore and Petit Jury EmpsD-
neIed-COnspiraty Case On.

The district court opened this morn.
ing with a buzz The court room was
crowded with visitors. attorneys and
prisoners.
The FIRST on the docket was the
reading OF new indictments aud the
arrangement Of the parties under ar
rest, which were six ia numbe aud
are as follows:
sO7. Lester Finly, alias Shorty Tay-
lor, and General jackson for robbinR
the Merten Commission Company.
Both are colored.
sos. VIM. Mosely for breaking into
the Welcome Grocery.
500 James Richards, for breaking
into and robbing the Blue Bell saloon.
He entered plea OF not guilty, and
being broke, the court appointed MIR.
Jarvis to conduct his defense.
$40 Adolphus Fontroy, colore1, set
ting FIRE TO the Jail. He is IA years
old and stated tnRt his parents refus-
ed to aid in his defense. The court
appointed r. Emmett Stewart as his
attorney.
sl1 Ollie Boyd, colored, for setting
FIRE to The city Jail. He Is Is ears old
and was told TO employ an attorney.
He owns city lot on College avenue.
sl2 John L. Cook and Maud Shultz,
for grand larceny, They waived the
reading of the indictment and entered
plea Of not guilty. This is the case
OF selling old man Shultz' mules to w.
r. Stapleton and skipping out. Shultz
is federal Jail prisoner serving one
year sentence for lvrcdny in the Usage
nation.
The Thomas murder case was called
up for pleading and plea of not
guilty was entered. Judge Buckner,
attorney for Thomas, fileS demurrer
to the Indictment, which the court
overruled The case was passed for
the present until such time as the
court may see ht to set it Cor an early
hearing
A case on a change of venue from
Kingfsher county, entitled United
STATES VS.. Il. M. Jordan ct al, for
conspiracy, was called. w. w. Noff-
singer and j. @. Roberts cf Kingfsher
are attorneys for the defense, while
Horace Speed, D. ). attorney, appears
for the United States. The matter in
the case concerns two families resi-
dence on claims and their interference
TO acquire title to the same, by being
burned out and otherwise interfered
with. Their names are Brown and
Haines. The action has been in the
court since 1925 and Is brought here
for dnal hearing unless appealed.
motion was made by Judge Strang
that james 8. Gladish and Noble l..
Gladish be admitted TO practice in this
court. Judge Burtord passed the mat
ter for the present. Later he will an
nounce the committee who will act
upon the applications. These are two
gentlemen who have recently come to
Guthrie from Tennessee and will prac-
tice law here.
Judge Burford announced that he
would appoint but one person to act as
attorney for the poor, and that such
appointment would be for the entire
term of this district court.
The petit jury was empanelled as
follows: @ w Beatty, David Swauk,
w B Wood, Jacob Blevins. w s Ander
son, j l. HedRcock, j ID Blanchard, w
) Cooper, T. Kidwell, M A Scott,
Jake Carter, I Potter. II p King, Sr.,
ID X Campbell, w r chatham, w
Denny, Il Dean, John Pammack, w
z Adams, M A Steele, Monroe Shref-
fer, Chas T Rambo.
Those discharged and excused were;
J. b. Swank; I'M. Wright; Chas. How
land; Geo. Johnson; Albert Brisk; VIM.
Briggs; s. A. Bryant; w. s. lEllls; w.
P.,Kellogg; Joseph Gooch; q. w. Bu-
ford; r. u. oress; M, .. Authus; A. H
Evans.