Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-02
ALL ABOUT A HORSE
Lengthy Battle in Justice Schroe-
der's Court for Its
Possession.
APPEAL FROM DECISION LIKELY
Effort TO Secure Filing Of Railway
PIats With County
Recorder.


day was the scene of a legal battle
of unusual interest and waged with
unusual earnestness. 1t was institut-
ed for the possession of colt and
the litigants were Dennis Collins and
Arthur Burial. The former was
represented by John Looney and the
latter by NMessrs. SteIck and Goetsch.
The case was originally started be-
fore Justice McFarlane and the de-
PENDANT took change of venue to
Justice Schriver. Then the plaintiff
took another change to Justice
Schroeder's court. where a jury trial
was held.
Had Been Keeping Animal.
Mr. Burial. the defendant. had
possession of the animal in question.
which appears to have been given to
him to keep several months ago by
the plaintiff. Before doing so. however.
Dennis mortgaged the animal to his
brother. Patrick. In course of time.
as no one offered to settle for the
horses keep. Mr.. Burial decided to
sell it in accordance with law and
get what was coming to him. When
he started proceedings in this direc-
tion the original owner decided to
investigate his rights in the case, and
yesterdays trial was the result. The
taking of the evidence was a lengthy
operation and involved many passages
at arms between the attorneys.
When it was all in the jury decided
that the horse belonged to the plain
tiff. An appeal to the circuit court
will probably be taken.
Demand Filling OF PIats
Next Tuesday hearing will be had
before Justice Schriver to compel the
Rock Island, Burlington. Milwaukee.
and Tri-City Street Railway COM
panies to file plats of their tracks in
the city with the county recorder, as
the law appears to require. None of
the roads have done so at any time in
the past. and the action is brought
! by ii. X. Gould. assistant county sur
veyor, Owing, to the nature of the
case. States, Attorney Weld Will have
charge of the prosecution. The law
provides penalty of So for the vio-
lation of the requirement and half of
the sum goes to the party making the
complaint.
! Police Points.
| c. w. Horton. superintendent of
| ne SHOlDS OF IIle -NOflnWeSIeEn ROAD
at Clinton. was in the city last even
ing and identified one of the brass
castings found iR,ithe wagon of NJ.
kohn, who was arrested for having
! them in his possession. as the prop
erty of his road. Mr.. Horton could
not remain long enough to testify at
a hearing, SO it was postponed till
| today.tgabate this afternoon no one
else had arrived to represent the
road as witnesses at the trial and
nothing had been done. The brass
journals had been heated and broken
into small pieces. but the letters &C.
& y. W. can still be seen on some
of them.
Last evening when Albert Hall. col
ored. completed his sentence for
stealing revolver at Ament's store
some days ago. he found policeman
awaiting at the Jail to pilot him to
the station for a hearing on the
charge of stealing n coat from Brom-
leS's store. 1t Will be recalled that
the two crimes were committed on
the same evening. when Hall. accom-
panied by companion. were caught
with the stolen property on their
persons. The coat was not identified
| till after the first hearing. Last ev-
ening Magistrate Johnson bound Hall
over to the grand jury for larceny,
fixing his bail at $50, and he was sent
back TO Jail.
Monthly Police Report.
\ total of % arrests were made by
the Rock Island police during the
month of July, according to the re-
port of Chief James Darnell. Thirty
one were city and FL state cases, as1
follows: DisoreierlYl conducts Is;
drunkenness. s; assault and battery,
6; breach of the peace and larceny.
each 4; assault with deadly weapon,
disturbing the peace. allowing ami
mails to run at large and peddling
without license. each >; peace war
rant. fugitive from justice, ysgrancy
and horse stealing. each. l. There
were SO wagon and 20 ambulance
calls. Sixteen persons were given
lodging. n meals were furnished and
the Jail bill was $3.50. Street lights
were reported out for total of $50
hours, fines and. police fees collected
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