The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-10
INDICTMENTS GALORE.

" INDICTMENTS GALORE.
The Grand Jury Indicts Bradshaw. Gatz
and Leuch ana also Finds Bills Against
Thornquist. Patchen, Doyle and Weston
for the Illegal Sale of Liquor.--Other In
dtctments. -.
1t did not take the grand jury long
to get down to work, and the first cases
1t took up were those of Fred Brad
shaw and Gustave Gatz and Albert
Leuch. Indictments we're returned
against all three the first day of court.
Gatz and Leuch were arraigned and
plead not guilty, being represented in
court by their attorney, Chas. Keith.
They were charged with assault in the
first degree and each was placed under
a $4,000 bond to appear at the next
term OF court for trial. s T.. -,
Fred Bradshaw who had retained R.
l.. Penney to defend him, plead not
guilty and his attorney asked that the
case be continued over the term.
County Attorney Ross objected to this
and stated that the States witnesses
were all ready and he stood ready to
try the case at once. Attorney Penney
submitted to the court an affidavit
signed by Bradshaw which stated that
the main witness for the defense, one
Ed Brown, who was with the defendant
on the evening that the burglary was
committed, was now in Hope, N. D.,
and it would be impossible to have
him here in time for the trial. The
matter of bonds came up and the
county attorney suggested So 900 which
the court thought excessive and placed
the bonds at $500. The court thought
that not to grant the prisoner due op-
portunltY to get ready for trial would
be breach of discretion on the part of
the court. The prisoner was entitled
to just as much consideration as the
public, which is no doubt correct, but
the people of Princeton and Mile Laos
county are getting awful tired Of hav-
ing frequent niscarriages of justice in
criminal matters for one reason and
another: As g matter: Of justice and in
the eyes of the law it is to be presumed
that Fred Bradshaw is innocent of the
crime he is charged with having COM
mitted, but as a matter OF record it is
we'll known that Bradshaw has any,
thing but clean record. He was in
dicted in 1892 for grand larceny in the
first degree but on motion of the county
attorney the case was dismissed. It
was charged in the complaint at the
time that he broke into the jewelry
store OF Frank Clark and stole jewelry
to the amount of over 5000, and most
of the stolen goods were found. In
justice court in 1898 he was bound over
to the grand jury charged with the
offense of having broken into house
out in Greenbush. It is also said that
a case against him for forgery was
settled some time since for SIS.
Now since he is not to be tried at
this term of court and given a show for
his liberty and clear himself of the
charge against him it might be in Or
der to say that the most damaging and
convincing evidence is in the hands of
the authorities to use against him.
He has put up cash bond of $500 and
it goes without saying that Fred Brad
shaw will not return to Princeton next
September to stand trial. He has a
lawyer who knows that Bradshaw
might as we'll check his baggage for
Saltwater if he should and he has per-
haps so advised him. Bradshaw when
he was brought back to Princeton af-
ter his capture by the sheriff admitted
to both Louis Fryhling and Sheriff
Claggett that he had burned the
clothes in stove at the Henry house
where he went when he stole the goods,
Sheriff Claggett went out to the house
and took from the ashes in the stove
charred pieces of cloth and buttons and
buckles from the clothes that were
burned. Bradshaw told the sheriff
that he broke into the tailor shop and
took the goods as he was going to get
married and needed some clothes, but
a few days after he sold piece of land
for 5000, which placed him on his feet.
The day after the burglary was COM
mitted Sheriff Claggett suspicioned
Bradshaw and went out to the Henry
house, expecting to find the Henry's
at home and learn something of Brad
shaw, but there was no one there.
The next morning he went back to the
house and raped on the door, but no
one answered, and he looked in
through the window and saw Brad
shaw getting out of bed. He came to
the door and let Clagget in. To throw
him off his guard the sheriff asked
Bradshaw about his (Bradshaw's)
uncle, Claggett representing that he
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