Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-05-01
Rex Green Must Serve That Time
in Jail.
NOBLE AND M'VEY EACH FINED $500
Judge Vermilion Fines Abbie Walker
$500 for Maintaining Nuisance =.
George Wilson Unable to Be Pres.
ent on Account of Illness.
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Rex Green, who confessed that he
broke into the Ballagh bakery on West
Second street and stole about $40 a
few months ago, and who few days
ago pleaded guilty to the charge of
breaking and entering, was today sen.
fenced by Judge Vermillion to serve
four months in the Wapello county
jail and to pay the expense of his case.
Frank Noble and William McVey, the
two young men who admitted entering
the room of William Van Doran on
East Main street and stealing an over
coat therefrom, were fined $100 and
costs, and committed to the Wapello
county Jail Abbie Walker, charged
with maintaining a nuisance by keep.
ing her saloon open on Sunday, was
fined $500, which she made arrange.
ments to pay.
Large Audience.
When court convened this morning
there was large audience present,
both attorneys and general public be-
ing curious to learn what action Judge
Vermillion would take regarding the
cases which have been tried before
him during this, his first term on the
bench in Wapello county. Many were
disappointed, however, on account of
the fact that neither Ed. Dawson, the
man convicted of assault upon Katie
Gallagher, of Eddyville, nor George
Wilson, who was found guilty of rob.
bling the residence of Harry Throne.
were sentenced. Davison's sentence
was postponed until this afternoon ow.
ing to the non-arrival of his attorney,
o. c. j. Phillips, of Oskaloosa. Wilson
is very i'll at the Jail, suffering from
infiammatory rheumatism and other
ailments, and he will not be able to
appear in court to receive his sentence
for some time.
Petition for Leniency.
A petition was read to Judge Yer
million by Attorney L. M. Morris ask.
ing that the court use leniency in pass
ing sentence upon Rex Green, the boy
who confessed that he robbed the bak-
cry of B. P. Ballagh. The petition was
signed by attorneys, policemen, and
prominent business men of the city,
and set forth the fact that the defend.
ant is young and it is thought to be
slightly weak mentally. Judge Yer
million, after hearing the petition and
verbal statement by Attorney George
F. Heindel, gave young Green a lecture
the boy will not soon forget, telling
him of the consequences into which
such an act may lead the offender and
making it plain that in passing sen.
tence as he did he was using greater
leniency than the crime would usually
| allow. After completing his remarks
| he sentenced the boy to four months
| Imprisonment in the county Jail.
| Green has already served two months.
Noble and Mcvey.
In the case of Frank Noble and Will
| liam McVey, Charles Hall, counsel for
| the defendants, stated to Judge Yer.
million that the boys had been intoxi-
Gated when they committed the crime
of which they admit they are guilty.
1 He also pointed out the fact that they
had pleaded guilty, thus saving much
expense to the county, and that they
have served forty-three days already
| in the county Jail. which he likened to
the Black Hole of Calcutta, calling at.
tention to the condition of George Will
son. In response to this appeal Coun.
| ty Attorney Emery said that the coun.
ty provides cages in the second story
of the Jail for the prisoners who are
serving sentences.
Judge Vermillion reviewed the case
briefly and finally sentenced the de.
PENDANTS to pay a fine of $1OO each and
costs of the case and stand committed
to the county Jail until such amounts
are paid.
Roy ingalls, Changes Plea.
The greater part Of the day in dis
tricJ court has been taken up with the
case of the State of Iowa VS.. Roy In.
gals and Thomas Slattery, the two
youths charged with burglarizing the
drug store of A. l.. Reynolds, in East
Ottumwa, on the night of January rs
The two boys were caught by Chief OF
Police Gray and Constable Peck in the
barn at the home of young ingalls, on
the morning following the robbery, and
they had the stolen goods with them
at that time. They were bound
over to the grand jury by Justice
Campbell, before whom the case was
tried, and that body found an ,indict
ment against them, charging them with
burglary. ingalls, pleaded guilty today
and his sentence will be pronounced
Monday. Slattery's trial was held this
!. afternoon and his case is in the hands
Hof the jury.
Motions for New Trials.
Today motions We're filed in the
cases of the state VS.. Ed. Dawson and
the state VS.. Mark Vance. Both of
these men have been found guilty
Dawson of assault with intent to com.
nit rape and Vance of lewdness. To
day is the day set for judgment in the
Dawson case and Attorney o. c. j.
Phillips arrived in the city to argue in
the matter before Judge Vermillion
this afternoon. The motion for new
trial in the Dawson case alleges that
the court erred in overruling certain
objections of the defense in regard to
4 evidence and other usual reasons for
| the motion.
The Vance Motion.
The motion in the Vance case is a
voluminous document and sets forth
| twenty-nine separate reasons why the
motion is made, in addition to four rea,
sons why the verdict was not correct
1t alleges that the Indictment did not
state the facts regarding the crime
| charged and that the charge did not
cover the crime charged. The reasons