Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-06
Jury Brought Verdict Late Yes
terday Afternoon.
DEMENIED MAN ASKS TOBE ARRESTED
Fidelity Loan and Building Association
"a Files Amendment to Articles of In.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Grips Trial
ON In District Court.
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From Fridays Daily.]
After arguing the matter for thirty
i six hours the jury in the Gardiner muir
der case returned into court yester
day afternoon with a verdict of noS
i guilty. One of the jurors said this
morning that the first vote taken in
the jury room resulted to 4 IN favor
of conviction, but that yesterday at
noon the vote for and against was to
4 8 in favor of acquittal. From that tine
on until they agreed to bring in YER
I dict of not guilty, the vote stood to ),
6 to 6, and again s to 4, all in favor
of acquittal, until at last, the four men
4 came over to the majority. 1t was said
by one of the jury that if the defense
had been that the act was done i'll
self-defense, they would not have been
out over forty minutes. At any rate
Gardner is free man, and stands ac-
quilted of the crime with which he was
4 charged.
Said He Was Crazy. :
"A man giving the name of William
Weissinger, who said he was from Fort
Dodge, accosted Officer Gallagher on
the street last evening and said that
3 he desired to be taken into custody
because he believed he was crazy. The
4 gallant officer was somewhat surprised
Il at the strange request, but saw that
the stranger was in earnest and accom-
modated him, taking him to the county
4 jail. No information of insanity was
fled against him this morning, and he
was provided with transportation to
Fort Dodge, where he can be cared for
BY relatives.
File Articles of Incorporation.
An amendment to the articles of in
corporation of the Fidelity Loan aud
Building association was filed in the
n recorders Office today. The articles
were adopted at the annual meeting of
the association held January %, and
provided that article Of the constitu-
tion be so amended as to provide for
( the payment of 81 per month on each
share of class A stock, 10 cents of
which is to be applied to the expense
J fund. That each person subscribing
for paid up stock shall pay 500 for
\ each share. The sixth paragraph is SO
amended by substituting for the words
five hundred dollars the words spar
value thereof" Article IL is amended
as to read: ssThere shall be kept ard
maintained an expense fund for the
4 expense payments on maturing shares
~ SsSSSIAs Outf Va Sl1dli VIC pdlu dlI
expense of the association in maturing
Its shares" and that the entire expense
OF maturing a share shall not exceed
SIS.
January Arrests.
There was total of 211 arrests
made by the police of Ottumwa during
The month ending January 81. One
HUNDRED and thirty-one were made on
the charge of vagrancy; As for intoxi-
cation; 20 for disturbing the peace, and
the rest as contained in the following
complete report for the month:
Vagrancy Observation-Disclosures. 1871
INVESTIGATION ................ As
Disturbing the peace ............ %
Larceny 800. .................. z
Obtaining goods under false pre-
tense -. ................... ]
On Indictment commentators. /
Keeping vicious dog ............. /
Peddling without license ........ ]
Insane ......... ..............
Total. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 211