The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-29
SMALL DOCKET.
District Court Calendar Con-
tains 254 Cases for Trial.
Judge Hazen Makes Low Record
for Coming Term.
SMALLEST IN 90 YEARS
Largest Docket on Record Mum.
bered 400 Cases.
Will Be 40 Criminal and 80
Divorce Trials.

The docket for the September term of
the district court was completed today,
and contains 254 cases. OF these, 30 are
appeals from decisions of the court of
Topeka, Ill are jury cases. Il are court
cases, divorce, injunction. etc., and 40
are criminal This is the smallest dock
ct of the court for 20 years. The largest
docket on record was / 400 cases.
There are % divorce cases pending the
time when Judge Hazen is ready to
grant or turn down the petitions. The
petitions allege about all the domestic
misdemeanors known to any court.
Among the criminal cases are two for
murder, one manslaughter in the third
degree, and few burglaries.
The case against Neil and Peterson,
two asylum attendants who are accused
of killing a helpless patient, will come
up during the September term. This
case was the direct cause of the asylum
investigation which was closed Tuesday.
There had been a great deal of COM
plant about the way the asylum was
managed and of the treatment of pat
tents, and the death of the patient as
saulted by these two attendants, which
occurred while the legislature was in
session, brought on the investigation
The other murder case to be tried this
term is that against Elmer Mundin,
Claude Mundin, Ed Thompson and Cor
neliuS Callahan, young men who were
at Mother Mahanna's road house on
East Fourth street when a young girl
Mary Mahanna, was shot and killed by
| member of the party. The preliminary
in city court established the fact almost
conclusively that Elmer Mundin fired
the shot which caused the girls death,
but the prosecution chose to hold the
entire gang and try them all as being
equally guilty of the crime. after the
manner employed in convicting the Chi
cago Haymarket rioters
The case against ]. A. Shields. a, col
ored physician, who is charged with
causing the death of a colored girl by
criminal practice, will also have a
hearing. The charge against him in
the district court is manslaughter in
the third degree.
The docket contains three cases
against Blanche Boies, the smasher,
who celebrated last Valentines day by
breaking the windows of several joints
and drug stores. Miss Boies was con-
victed on one charge of this kind. ma
licious trespass, last term, and given a
fine of 800 and 80 days in jail. The
case was appealed and she is not in
Jail
Two of the visiting pickpockets who
are in Jail awaiting the September
term. having been bound over from the
court of Topeka. They are Fred Will
son and William Brown, and are
charged with larceny from the person.
Lincoln Lowry, the negro who shot
Smoke" Williams and Paul Pease in
Parkdale last May, will have hearing
on the charge of assault with intent TO
kill.
George Maris. charged together with
E. w. Wilson with selling mortgaged
cattle, is slated for trial next term
but attorneys say it is doubtful if the
case will come to trial. His partner.
Wilson, was convicted about three
Tertiary, but appealed to the supreme
court
Homer Woodcock, the Pauline youth
who had a mania for shooting valuable
horses. will also have hearing He
is fortunate in having shorter time
to remain in Jail than some of the
others
Anthony Peacher. the bad coloreo
man who shot holes in a Union Pacific
passenger coach, narrowly missing sew
eral passengers, among them Attorney
Joseph Waters. will also be tried. The
penalty in his case is not great.