The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-25
THE COURT SQUEEZE
There Will Be No More Civil Jury
Cases Tried This ;
Term:
IT'S Hoped to Clear Up Criminal
Cases Before Funds
Give Out.

No more jury cases in the civil branch
Of the district court will be called for trial
at this term. Next week.. however, two
criminal courts will be running and 1t is
thought that the criminal calendar can
be pretty well cleaged OF jail cases before
the week ends, ~ .;... ., -.
The county commissioners will meet
Monday. and will probably appropriate $500
from the emergency fund, for use in de-
fraying current y expenses. The court
fund having been exhausted. p:
Monday morning Judge Elliott will take
up the murder case agains Levi Nystedt
and Andrew Haakepson. 4. No attempt will
ants are out on baiI and all such Will be
continued over. the term.
Among the, prisoners whose cases are
still on the calendar and who may be tried
are John kelley Smith, grand larceny
second degree; William Edmonds, bur
glary, third degree; Erick Rask, assault,
first degree; Joseph Gagnier, grand lar
ceny, first degree; Nels johnson, Indecent
assault; Edward Bond, abortion; Charles
Bockerson, malicious injury to personal
property: Kearns Horen, grand larceny,
second degree; Andrew Godfrey, forgery,
second degrees Charles r. Fisher, grand
larceny, second degree; Moses Stone.
grand larceny, second degree; Edward
Hans Anderson, grand larceny, second de-
gree and burglary, third degree; Charles
Strand, grand larceny, second degree; May
Smith, assault, first degree. -.. '.-'.. T. ..,-
Most of these cases will go over the
term. Where it is possible for the de-
PENDANTS to secure limited ball. the amount
required will be fixed lower than usual
owing to the unusual condition which now
confronts the courts. Civil cases in which
the litigants will agree to dispense with
the service Of jury will be tried.
A number Of criminal cases were set
over the term this morning, among them
those against George j. Hammond, mana
ger of the Coe Commission company; and
Herman Westphal, accused Of giving away
glass Of beer on election day. "
The case against Louis. A. Runge,
charged with manipulating primary cleo
ton returns, was called and Victor j.
WEIGH, Runge's attorney, announced that
he wished to demur to the indictment. Ar
guments on the demurrer will be heard
Friday morning. - &''..'
I Joseph Cohen was brought into court
yesterday afternoon and was placed under
SIS, 900 bail, his bondsmen being S. B.
Abeles. Abraham Goldman and his brother
H. L. Cohen. The one remaining indict-
ment against Cohen. the one under which
he will be tried, accuses him Of having
compounded a crime and relates that he
accepted SIS from Ethel Ford, proprietress
or a house or all 1anle, WIFI the unQer-
standing that he would not inform against
her if the money was paid .,. = - 70.
~ Coffee Johns Appeal. 49,. -
The case of Coffee john Fitchette,
appealed from the local district court,
will come up for hearing in the supreme
court tomorrow morning. Messrs.
Lane and Nantz, .Fitchette's attorneys, in
their brief filed yesterday. claim that the
trial court erred in admitting the testi
n1ony OF Witnesses Larson and Gustafson,
both of whom claimed to have bargained
with Fltchette for a position on the city
police force; and 1t is largely on this point
that they rely to secure a new trial. A
long list of citations are given on both
sides. of the question. -.