Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-07
JURY RETURNS VERDICT AGAINST
CLIFTON LOGAN, LOCAL PU-
GILIsTIc CELEBRITY.
Edward Rhinehart Sentenced to Two
Years in P%enitentiary - Charles
kempf Gets One Year - orman and
Rupe Escape Penalty.

three day contest completed yesterday
morning and carried or in the district
court room with Clifton Logan, the To-
cal pugilistic celebrity. The decision
of the jury of twelve men which acted
as referee for the contest, after dis
cussing the affair in the jury room
from II o'clock yesterday morning un-
til $3.50 o'clock this morning arrived at
a decision and made the announce
ment this morning at 8 o'clock when
court opened for the day.
Logan was charged with breaking
and entering the store owned by Jones
Bros. in the West End on the night Of
January IL. 1t is alleged that he took
a number of razors, some tobacco and
other goods. Suspicion pointed to Lo-
gan from the fact that the day follow
an effort. to dispose of several razors to
T. w Jackson of a West Main street
barber shop. The ago answered the
description of those taken from the
store and after other investigation Lo-
gan was arrested at the mine of the
Phillips Fuel company by Police Of
f1cer Clarence Sutton. Logan Is to re-
ceive sentence Monday morning.
Gets Two Years.
Two years in the penitentiary at
hard work was the sentence melted out
this morning to Edward Rhinehart who
is charged with holding up and robbing
Mrs. F. A. MCLEAN Of Head City, Mo-,
on the night of December II. B. w.
Scott, attorney for Rhinehart an
nounced that the Ease would be APP
pealed and the appeal bond was fixed
at $500.
One Year for kempf.
One year at hard work in the peni-
Tertiary was the penalty imposed upon
Charles Kempf who pleaded guilty to
The act was alleged to have been COM
mitted several weeks ago.
A check was presented at the J.. B.
Sax clothing store by Kempf for $3.50
and purporting to be signed by VIM.
Wafer, paymaster for the Mccarthy
Improvement company. The check was
cashed and when presented at the
bank on the following morning was de-
clared to be a forgery.
Kempf in admitting his guilt asked
for leniency on the ground that the act
of forging the check was done while
under the influence of liquor. 1t was
also asked by Attorney Scott.who rep
resented Kempf that the penalty be
made a Jail sentence.
The court would be turning men
loose every day If we excused their
criminal acts on the ground that they
were intoxicated when the acts were
committed" said the judge. II will sem
tence Kempf to n year in the peni-
Tertiary at hard labor for / do not be-
lieve that it is a good thing for a man
to be lying around a Jail doing moth
ing. I believe the ~penitentiary is the
best place for him."
Saloon Men Fined.
Through an oversight the names of
saloonkeepers fined yesterday for sell
ing liquor in violation of the law were
omitted. Tim Mack and Jas. Meacham
were subjected to the fine of $3.50,
while the six who are to pay the fine
of $500 each are Peter Molony, Har-
ley Allison, Oscar Hendricks, John
Lunkley, John Mack and Thos. O'Brien.
The case against James Wycoff wa
not taken up owing to the absence
from the city of the defendant.
Gamblers PLEAD Gullty.
Edward Swift and David Heller,
charged with running gambling houses
have withdrawn their pleas of not
guilty and entered pleas of guilty
They are to receive their sentence
Monday morning.
Discharged on TechnicaIity.
Upon a technicality in the informa
ton filed before the Justice court in
the case of the state of Iowa VS.. Johr
Orman and Charles Rupe, the suit was
this morning dismissed and the de
PENDANTS discharged. Orman and Rupe
were charged with disturbing &
worshipping congregation at the
Liberty school house ear this city
The information while describing the
alleged disturbance neglected to state
that the disturbance was a willful one
, The omission of this word was the
technicality upon which the verdic
of the jury holding the defendants
!, guilty as charged in the information
was set aside and the case dismissed