Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-05-01

Cone, has also been plated and lots
in that town will also be on the mar
ket in short time.
GETS EIGHT YEARS.
Ed. Dawson Must Serve Time at Fl
Madison.
[From Wednesdays Daily.l
Ed. Dawson of Pekay, who was
found guilty by jury of twelve men
of assault with intent to commit rape
upon the person of little Katie Gal
lagher, aged IL years, of Eddyville,was
yesterday sentenced to eight years
Imprisonment in the penitentiary at
FIT. Madison, Judge Vermillion over
ruling motion for new trial of the
case. The appeal bond was fixed at
$4,000 and Dawson was taken to Fit.
Madison today. The court has fixed
Friday morning as the time for pass
ling judgment in the case of the state
vs. Mark Vance. The defendant in
! this case has been found guilty of
lewdness and motion has been filed
for new trial, the arguments on this
motion will be heard Friday morning
and if it is overruled sentence will be
passed at that time. Thomas Slattery
was tried in district court yesterday
on the charge of burglary and was
found not guilty, the jury being out
about an hour to come to a decision.
The Dawson Sentence.
Ed. Dawson is the first man Judge
Vermillion has sentenced to the penl-
Tertiary and there has been much
speculation as to the length of the
sentence he should receive. The
crime of which he was convicted is a
most heinous one and Dawson narrow
lily escaped lynching at the hands of a
mob of Infatuated Eddyville people on
the morning following the day upon
which the assault was made upon the
little Gallagher girl. The youth of the
victim and the undoubted depravity
of the offender made the feeling
against Dawson very great and it was
only through strategy that he was
spirited away from Eddyville by Sher-
if Cremer and a few companions and
brought in safety to Ottumwa for CON
finement in the jail.
The little girl, in her testimony at
the trial, identified Dawson as the
man who had made dishonorable ad
vances to her and who had finally as,
saulted her while she was going home
along a country road near Eddyville.
after having ridden half mile IL
Davison's buggy with him.
: Dawson has maintained his limo
cence throughout the time since his ar
rest and the case was fought on the
ground that he was not the man who
l committed the crime but that the littlt
D girl was mistaken in her Identification
:. However, the jury found the mai
e guilty.
I Yesterday afternoon Attorneys j. F
e Blake and o. c. G. Phillips, the latte
e of Oskaloosa, made appeals for a new
r trial in support of motion they hat
offered. Judge Vermil1ion, however
overruled the motion and sentence;
Dawson to hard labor at the Fit. Madi
:. son penitentiary for eight years.
: Taken to Fl. Madison.
i Sheriff Harry Cremer left on Bur
G lington passenger No. 10 today Will
a Dawson. enroute to FIT. Madison,Wner,
r the man will begin his long term
f With good behavior he can shorten III
! time to ABOUT six years.
n Will Sentence Vance Friday.
/ Judge Vermillion this morning an
i nounced that on Friday morning h
will pass sentence in the case of tn
i state against Mark Vance, found gui
ty of lewdness In this case it is eA
{ pected that much argument will TAX
s place, as new trial has been aske
= for by the defendant, the motion wit
; the reasons for it being made extent
{ ing over four or five large pages c
/ typewriter paper. AS stated in ye:
s lterdays Courier many flaws are foun
t by the defense in the manner in whic
/, the trial was conducted. both by til
\. court and by the prosecuting attorneys
u and the motion alleges that the jur
II arrived at the verdict of guilty nc
~ through fairness but through prejudic,
. DIR. Vance's attorneys say that if the
= motion for new trial is not acted vi
= on favorably by Judge Vermillion the
) will appeal the case to the suprem
II II court
Slattery Not Guilty.
The jury in the case Of Thomas Sla
terry, charged with burglarizing th
lie drug store of A. L.. Reynolds on til
1t night of January rs, returned We
r. dcit of not guilty yesterday afternoo
X after having Deen out about an hou
n Roy ingalls,, the boy who was arreste
De with Slattery, pleaded guilty to til
OF charge yesterday and VIII be sentcn
Of ed Monday. S.attery's defense We
d. that he was not with Ingalls, ut III
Il time the sobbery was committed b,
a was simply sin on the divide" Alto
ID ney H. C. Hendershott defended hi
lie and County Attorney D. II. Emel
IN conducted the prosecution.
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