Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-08
TOCRAND JURY
Fl. E. Motto and Rose Kelly
Are Bound Over.
CHARGED WITHROBBERY

nation Charging Motto With Lar
ceny of Watch-Prisoner Named
DuIIivan Gets Away-A Pipe Story.
H. E. Motto and Rose Kelly, the
white man and colored woman who
were arrested Tuesday night charged
with having robbed Lew McAvoy, a
Davis county farmer, were tried in po
lice court last evening. Their trial
was taken up again this morning and
after the evidence of the state and de-
tense had been heard the two defend
ants were held to the grand jury by
Judge Moon, their bonds being fixed
at $500 each. In dets.i't Of bond they
were sent to Jail. Con thIoiiee John
W. Gray acted as ST Wink, * ley and
was opposed by B BFred D. VI on the
part of the prison titles of J,
State Has Abuo. pae pmaee'Evidence.
The state intro't5j94ni 5j94 evidence to
by several with her eNsn.n McAvoy's
pockets, and other at5 elo~- testified
that Motto had said ~, eu& his bit"
and didn't care if Roe,s - teo,rrested.
The defense hau witness pue y among
the prisoners at the jaisuA etfy that
Grant, one of the coloreo men there
as prisoner on the charge of burg
larry at Murray, took ten dollar bill
from McAvoy while the latter was
asleep at the Jail. The latter evidence
however, counted for bpt very little
with the judge and he accordingly
bound the two defendants over to the
grand jury.
Charged With Larceny.
Another charge has been preferred
against Motto this time for larceny
The complaining witness is John Peck
ham of Rathbun, who claims that he
pawned to Motto valuable gold filed
hunting case watch, receiving So. This
| he says, was ztla or about July %, at
Rathbun. He found that the watch
had been pawned in an Ottumwa
pawnshop by Motto. and accordingly
swore out information against the man
charging him with larceny. The infor-
nation was filed by Judge Moon this
morning.
Says Its All Right.
Motto, when asked about the watch,
says that the Rathbun man can have
his watch whenever he wants it, but
admits that it is pawned. Under eX-
listing circumstances the police say
they can hardly see how Motto can
rescue the watch just now from the
pawn broken. owing to the fact that
he has only thirty cents and owes sew
eral dollars for the watch.
Nothing was done with Motto on the
charge of larceny of the watch, but
the warrant for his arrest on this
charge has been written and put into
the hands of the police so that if he
should be released he can be re-arrest-
ed on the larceny charge. He is in
Jail, his attempt yesterday to have
Charles Pegg go on his bond having
met with failure.
Prisoner Walks Out.
A man giving his name as Dullivan
was arrested last night by Officer
Schwartz on the charge of larceny OF
a gold watch belonging to Henry
Richards, bar tender at the Baker
House saloon. Richards laid his watch
ON the window sill in the saloon and
when he returned to get it few min
utes later it was gone as was Dullivan
who had been loafing around the sa
loon for some time.
Watch Had Been PaWned.
A search of the pawn shops resulted
in the discovery of the watch which
had been pawned, presumably by the
thief. A short time later Schwartz ar
rested Dullivan and took him to Jail
This morning hewas brought to police
court for his trial, along with Rose
Kelly, H. E. Motto and two drunks
The drunks We're permitted to leave
town by the judge and Dullivan, who
: was standing near the door, saw his
: opportunity to get away by falling il
: with these two men. This is what he
did and the case against Dullivan was
not tried lowing to the absence of the
defendant" Chris Myers was stand
ing near the man when he went ou
of the door, but Chris thought he was
drunk turned loose and paid no at
7 tention to him. Richards has recover
ed his watch.
An Old story.
A man giving his name as Will Roll
man and claiming to be a farm hant
whose home is in Dallas county, Mo
and who has been working near He'd
rick, told story to Officer Kussar
yesterday afternoon about the loss o
something over ten dollars via tn
hold-up route. He gave a meager dc
scription of the two men who he salt
: did it, and his story was believed for
c time. Chief Gray started to find tn
: men who did the work, and ran acros
a man who had been. fishing at tn
.'red house over the race, near whicl
the man claimed to have been held VI
"Flaws in Esidence."
The fisherman put new light o.
the matter by telling Chief Gray tina
he, had seen Rollman going up the Mi
}: waukee tracks for some distance, bu
i had seen him have no trouble and wa
2 pretty sure there was no hold up nea
d the 'red house. Upon learning thi
t and hearing Rollmans story agai
II with slight variations Chief Gray de
d cided that. the story was one of ma