Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-02-19
FOUND THEM GUILTY.
Highwaymen at Charlton Con-
victed of Robbing Travelling Man.
THREE MEN MALTREAT TRAVELLER.

THREE MEN MALTREAT TRAVELLER.
Verdict is in Accord With the SEN
timent of the Peope-Men Said to
Have Been Part of an Infamous
Gang.
Charlton, Feb. 15.-The jury has
returned verdict in the highway
robbery case on Thursday after being
out for nineteen hours convicting all
three of the defendants. 1t was the
case of the State of Iowa VS.. Dave
Sodestrom, Vim. Mullen, Jr., and Sam
Stull, who, about two weeks ago,
Knocked own and robbed e. J. Wy
man, a travelling man representing the
Wyman Rand house of Burlington, of
$31. The case has attracted quite a
great deal of attention and has been
q hot,y contested legal fight, few
of the citizens having taken an inter
est in the case in order to break up
the t1evee gang" and securing the SER
vices, of I. M. Stuart to help the coun-.
ty attorney in the case The univer-
sal opinion of the people is in hearty
accord with the verdict of the jury.
Sentence will be passed on the boys
Saturday
Harry Yost has begun work in the
Gus Thompson bakery again after
having been employed in Auburn,
1 Nah. for fbo noc+ foxrr ID x
Alderman j. G. Copeland went to
Des Moines on Wednesday evening
TO confer with the consulting engineer
who has the waterworks proposition
under ADJUSTMENT
Frank Sheldon an old Charlton boy
but now located in Nebraska, 4 is re-
moving old acquaintance on our
streets.
Mrs. w. E. WEIGH and children have
returned to their home in Charlton
where they were called by the sick
er, Mrs. p. H. KirkhaTt.
The officials of Lucas county have
just competed a new contract with
the tax ferrets. They recently en-
ployed them to look up back taxes
full in getting about $4,000 for the
county. recent decision of the SUI
preme court allows the ferrets to go
back five years in their work and it
is to secure the taxes not paid for
the other three years that the new
contract has been made. They are now
hard at work and the prospects look
bright for the county to secure sew
( .4,J ~ N,, Ioil ~,
Hon j. A. Penick was profession
al visitor in Osceola on Wednesday.
The many friends of Park Williams
one of the prominent farmers of LII
cas- county will be pleased to hear of
his good fortune in securing a supple
mentary pension of 81 a month.
The day in court was taken up by
listening to the arguments of the at
torneys in the First National Bank
and Thos. Thorne vs. Hug and Ella
postponed Monday on account of the
sickness of one of the attorneys.
~ The funeral services of Mrs. Phoebe
Gartin were held Thursday Afternoon
from the. home conducted by Rev
which body she has been an earnest
Mrs. Gartin was born in Ohio in 1921
: and was united in marriage to Feli1
Gartin in. 1888. They came to low;
In 1858 and settled on a farm abou
six miles from Charlton where they re
sided until about eight years ago wher
they moved to Charlton to spend theil
declining years. Mrs. Gartin was vel
known and dearly loved by a large
foirn Ia Of tu frin dc h 11rir {
always been kind and sympathetic
and ever helpful to the needy. Shit
4 had been a sufferer from heart trou
BILE for years and the death of he
husband, who was buried last Sun
day was too much for her and sht
was called to meet him within a shor
time. The death of both these esti
mabIs old people is keenly felt by the
entire community.
The city. council met in special ses
sion on Wednesday evening and ad
journed, the waterworks ordinance
and franchise not being in prope
shape for consideration at this time.
James M Harrison of the secre
service department of the Burlington
q has been spending most of his tint
for the past week in Creston, where
the Omcla1S nave DGen complaining
of petty thievery from the box cars ii
the yards. We understand Mr.. Har
rison was successful in finding the
perpetrators of the crimes which
proved to be a gang of young boys
AS a result of his work Resner He'd
!; erliter has been taken to the reform
school and it is thought that the gang
4 has been broken up.
Squire G. w. Mitchell, one of the
substantial farmers of Benton town
ship, who has been SO seriously i'll
for the past few weeks, is now able
to be around once more.
Word has been received in Charlton
of the marriage of two of it's most
estimable young people at Clyde
Mo-, where the bride has been visit
ing. Miss Ida Sullivan and Sanford
w Rea are the contracting parties
The wedding will come as a surprise
to most of their friends as Sanford
had given out that he was going tc
& Des 5Moines on business. The bride
Us is well and fayorably known in Chart
ton, having resided here most of hel
life and is a bright, charming, and ac
n cOmDliShed yOllng 1ady and auita .