The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-10-07
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next MONTH.
COURT WILL RESUME SESSION
IN NOVEMBER.
MANY lNFORMATIoNS FILED
Three Defendants Refuse Trials and
Enter Pleas Of GuiIty-WiIIIiams
Matter Up.

November 12 is the date until which
Judge Loud adjourned the district
court at the conclusion of Wednes-
days session, the second day of the
present term. Two days later, No.
vember IA, the venire issued for a
trial. jury is returnable and the men
summoned must appear in court. The
| names were drawn from jury box No.
and summons for the following were
ordered:
Bert G. Shorey, r. Copp, Thomas
E. Keithley, Silas Stone, F. L. Sum
mers, w. Trogden, T. F Holly, w.
=. G. Mitchell, George L. MUIR, ]. C.
Cashen, Barney Schneider, Fred Bar
ling, g. e. Smith, T. j. Jellison, Ger
aid Panton, C. W. Forester, Thomas
Chatwood, H. l. Grant, E. Grosman,
Paul Mccormick, Andrew Dahlstrom,
Joseph Kinnick, ]. B. Elliot, A. e.
Ross, John Barry, William McCul-
Tough, William McMorris, William
McCreight, III. C. jolly, B. F. Harris,
James Kerr, Thomas Hogan, C. G.
Steers, Garret De Boor, H. G. Hoppe,
G. L. Green, J. D. Losekamp, T. j.
Thusen, H. T. Ramsey, John Barr,
George F. Bennighoff, Conroy Doyle,
Peter Reroe, Henry Wende, w. H.
Mccormick, Thomas McGirl, H. C.
Kerr, J. H. Schroeders, David Pen
man and Frank Baker.
Arrangements Were Many.
The arraignment of prisoners to
plead to the various informations filed
against them was unusually large and
the crimes charged covered various
degrees. In addition to the original
charges against them, the men who
participated in the recent Jail deliv.
cry must also answer to the count OF
destroying public property, which, in
this state, is made felony.
Three defendants pleaded guilty
and waived time in which to pro.
nounce sentence. They We're Frank
Day, George Fisher and w. H. Bick-
nell. The first stood charged with
grand larceny. He was given one
year in the states prison. Fisher was
informed against for burglary in the
first degree. BY consent he was per-
burglary in the second degree. For
this he received two years. The in
formation against Bicknell charged
him with assault in the first degree.
He was permitted to plead guilty to
assault in the second degree and his
punishment was fixed at one years
Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Bicknell is the man who on the even
ing of June % ran amuck on the
south side and fired indiscriminately
at about every person he met. He
was chased by posses of citizens
and finally overhauled southeast OF
town, but not before he had received
a bullet through the shoulder, which
almost ended his earthly career.
The other arraignments follow:
State VS.. Louis Perrolaz, grand lar
ceny; pleads not guilty; case dis.
missed on motion of county attorney.
State VS.. Frank La Pont, burglary
first degree; pleads not guilty; hear
ing fixed for December 2.
State VS.. Edward Buckley, William
West and Patrick Griffin; grand lar
ceny; plead not guilty; hearings set
for November 81, % and 23.
State VS.. William West, Patrick
Griffin, Frank Day, Louis Perrolaz,
Frank La Pont, Silas D. Parkinson,
Robert A. Parkinson, Joseph Schon-
ninger, William Miner, Oliver o. Mo-
sier and Samuel E. Grady, destroying
public property. Mosier and Grady
were not in court, not yet having
been caught. All the others pleaded
not guilty and demanded separate
trials. The cases were set covering
dates between November 25 and De
cember l.
State VS.. Edward Buckley, William
West and Patrick Grimm; Burglary in
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the first degree; pleas Of not guilty
entered and separate trials demanded.