Iron County register., 1905-11-02

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ing Judge Williams announced
that the application would be
granted, and sent the case to Rey-
nolds county, where it will come
up for trial the fourth Monday in
November. The attorneys for the
defense were not at all pleased
with the case going to Reynolds
county, but would much preferred
to have their clients tried in Jeffer-
son county. The Judge announced,
though, in granting the applica-
ton, that it was his custom in
making change of venues to let the
state name where the case would
be taken. In this instance the at
torneys for the state preferred
Reynolds county,. and so the case
was sent there.
Last Saturday morning T. M.
Robins stepped into the Miners
and Merchants Bank and handed
Cashier Arthur Norwine a check
for S100.60 and asked him to cash
it, which the latter agreed to do.
After examining it closely Mr..
Norwine discovered that by some
scratching and rewriting the check
had been raised from SLIGO to
S100.60. He told Mr.. Robins to
make himself at home and he
would get the money in few
minutes. The cashier, instead of
getting the money, got Night
Marshal Geo. HI. Fraser, who
promptly placed Robins under ar
rest and he was taken to Farming
ton and placed in Jail to await the
action of the grand jury. Robins
is twenty-one years old and halls
from Reynolds county. He ad-
mitted doing the raising, but is
sorry he did it.-FIat Riuer Corre-
spondence Pennington Ne,os.
Mrs. Ella Golitz, of Portsmouth,
Ohio, who has been visiting rela-
tives here, is out a gold watch set
with diamonds and valued at $500.
She was held up and robbed-not
by highwayman but by "Tip,'
an elephant that is with the John
Robinson circus. Mrs. Golitz with
her relatives were permitted to
enter the menagerie this morning
before the parade, and going too
near the elephants, one OF them
"Tip" by name-reached out his
trunk and seizing her watch swal-
lowed it. He also got hold of her
swell bonnet and made a luncheon
of it. Mrs. Golitz fell in Mysteries
over the loss and is in critical
condition. A warrant will be
sworn out for Manager John G.
Robinson and the big elephant,
and this raises a new legal ques-
tion: "Can the owner of an ele-
phant and the elephant be held?"
Manager Robinson has consulted
local physician and if the watch
is not recovered tomorrow or this
evening, gastrotomy will be per-
formed. In the meantime the ele-
phant will be exhibited as civ
ing time piece" A civil suit will
probably be brought against Man
ager Robinson, also for $4,000 dam
ages. He has offered to pay for
the watch, buy new bonnet and
liquidate the doctor bill, but Mrs.
Golitz refuses. Hon. David w.
Hill, speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives, is Mrs. Golitz,s at
torney.-Poplar Bluff Republican.
Mont. Cummins, we'll known in
Piedmont, was tried before Squire
M. P. Holmes, Tuesday on the
charge of writing blackmailing
letters to Capt. w. 7. Leeper, of
Mill Spring, in an effort to extort
money from him. He was bound
over to the circuit court under
$4,000 bond, which he gave. Capt.
Leeper testified that he received
two anonymous letters recently,
postmarked at Piedmont, the first
demanding that he deposit $500 in
the yard of a certain house on
South Main street in Piedmont and
the second repeating like de-
mand but reducing the amount of
money to $500. He came to Pied
mont last Saturday, the day speci-
fed in the last letter and dropped
a package containing marked
five dollar bill and some paper in
the yard of what he supposed to
be the house described in the let
ter. James Rives testified that he
had been placed on watch over the
house occupied by Mont Cummins'
mother, and that he saw Mont
Cummins visit the place five times
Saturday, and on the last visit
saw him send his little girl back,
after he had started away to get
something he had discovered in
the yard, presumably the decoy
package. Local bankers Strader
and Lindsay testified, after COM
parison of the blackmail letters
with signatures of Cummins in
their possession, that there were
strong points of similarity. Mean
time Marshal Feith had left the
court room. He had discovered
from Captain Leeper's testimony
that the Captain had deposited his
decoy at some place not entirely
like the one described by his
anonymous correspondent. Feith
found the Captains package in the
yard Of the Worley house, the
second house north of that oc-
cupied by Mrs. Cummins. This
partially dispelled the cloud rest
ling over the prisoner, but on the
other alleged discriminating cir
cumstances in the case, the court,
after consultation with Squire G..
G. Ivy, decided to hold Cummins
over to the grand jury. Prosecut-