Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-11-27
THE THE DISTRICT COURT
SMALL CALENDAR BUT A NUM-
Der OF IMPORTANT CRIMINAL .
~ - AND CIVIL
CASES TO BE TRIED-LAcH MUIR
DER CASE OF GREATEST,
IMPORTANCE.


The fall term of the district court
convened with Judge Winchester pre-
siding and all in a happy frame of
mind until the court began a house
cleaning of the calendar and made the
attorneys get lively move on them
selves to oct busy with the court bust
| ness. ="
The criminal cases we're first dis
posed of in their order
William Kunze was arraigned and
pleaded not guilty to charge of as
! sault with a dangerous weapon.
Harris Klein of Cromwell township,
pleaded not guilty to a charge of rape
on the person of Sarah Brown. Klein
had some difficulty in getting a lawyer
and this promises to be one of the
worst exposes of depravity yet tried
in this court
Joseph Lach pleaded not guilty to
the charge of murder in the first de-
gree for the killing of John Muller
last summer.
Louis Alexander also pleaded not
guilty to an assault with a dangerous
weapon.
Wallace Stoddard, charged with
blind plugging, was not in court but one
of the attorneys said he had expected
to be here and probably would arrive
on the next train from Menoken, so
the case was held in allegiance.
The civil calendar was then called
as follows:
Weymouth VS.. Weymouth, divorce
case, to be taken up on ten days notice
to the court. Chas. Splitter VS.. ]. c.
Richie, to be argued on agreement
VIM. Broderick VS.. J. C. Ritchey,- to
be argued later. Mary L. Mclean VS.
Hattie T. Sprague ct al, TO be taken
up later. T. w. Griffin VS.. Dennison
Land Co., set for argument in it's turn
w. A. Falconer VS.. Florence Pearce, Ell
al. defendant gave five days notice
John Yegen VS.. N. P. Railway, at con
venienee of the attorneys. Fred Hoge
VS.. Pat Kelley, dismissed because
plaintiffs attorney was not present tc
prosecute. Jay Wilcox VS.. N. F. Rail
way, Judgment confessed for $25 and
costs by defendant and case dismissed
]. I. Case Threshing Machine Co., VS.
John W. Olson continued over term
| because court would not wait for one
Of the attorneys to show up in court
Mary Z. McLeansvs. John A Mclean
divorce case, continued over term,
William Hammond VS.. Pearl Ham.
mond divorce case, passed for the
time being.
On the peremptory call of the
calendar it became apparent that the
court was determined to clean up the
calendar in a hurry and the attorneys
appeals for delay so as to get wit.
nesses, etc., fell upon deaf ears. The
court stated that everything possible
must be cleaned up this week as an
important term of court was to begin
in Stark county next Monday, and
there was a general scurrying of the
limbs of the law to get in shape to do
business when their cases were called
Some of the attorneys who failed to
appear IN court and some who had
been there but had gone down town
got nipped by continuances or other.
wise and some of them had to begin
their cases before they were really
ready for trial through the non pres.
ence3 of material witnesses.
The case Of Ben Cleveland, charged
With bastardy, was dismissed, he hay.
ing complied with the statutes in max.
ing a settlement with complaint.
This afternoon Harris Klein was
placed on trial on the charge of rape
on the person of Sarah Brown, now
| the wife of a young farmer of the
same name in the Cromwell district
states Attorney Patterson is prose
cutting and Mockler & Johnson defend
ing. At $3.50 the following had been
secured as jurors out of a large mum
Der examined: Frank Titus, D. R
Mcdonald, Louis Larson. C. B. Porter
Thomas MCGOWAN, J. q. Mcdonald
4 George Anderson. The case is likely
TO last through tomorrow and the
! testimony is said to Re Te-y salacious
4 The Town Of Plaza,