Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-17
GRAND JURY FINISHES Up
Number Of Indictments Returned, but 0nly
Few Are MADE Public
TOWN JAl At MINDtN IS CONDEMNED
Not Sufficient Provision to Keep Pris-
oners warm-An other JniIs and
Hospitals I'm County Are
Given n Clean Bill.


its deliberations for this term yesterday
and reported a number of indictments. only
six Of which were made public. the de-
PENDANTS named in the others not being in
| custody The grand Jury also made a re-
| port of its examination OF the jails In
Nicola, Mlnden and Underwood. st. Ber-
| nard's hospital and the city and county
jails I'm Council BLUFFS. II gives all of the
places visited clean bill of health except
the Jail at Minden. where II was found that
the inmates were not given proper and suf-
ficient protection against cold weather. The
| court ordered that the attention of the au-
thorities at Minden be called to the report
and required to remedy the condition COM
planned of.
The indictments made public yesterday
were:
Two against John Pruett and Hal Mer-
Ram. In one they are charged with the
theft Of a horse, valued at 500. the prop
erty OF Mrs NJ. d. Fulmer. from the pas
ture OF Benedict Haag, and in the second
they are charged with the theft OF a horse,
also valued at 800, the property of Haag.
from the same pasture on November 30.
Their bonds under each indictment was
placed at $500 each '"' 20.
Two indictments are against Frank Fish
station at Nicola. charged with mistreating
young girls, One indictment charges him
with serious offense against Helen Doyle,
aged IL years. and the other charges a
similar offense against Eva Sells. aged 9
years. In the first indictment his bond is
placed at 900 and in the second at $500.
One indictment is against Charles Ether
ton on the charge of larceny as bailee. On
December q last, It is alleged, Etherton
hired horse and buggy. valued at 500,
from M. d. Weatherbee, proprietor of a
Broadway livery. which he attempted to
dispose of to F. A. Davis for SIS. HIS bond
Is placed at $500
One indictment is against Fred Schiefer,
charged with lewdness. Shelter was ar
rested at Minden January 3. where he
was living with a young woman named
Hazel Pierce. His bond was placed at $50
The grand jury returned mo bills" in the
cases of Dave McCreary, engineer at the
Ogden hotel. charged with the theft of
two automobile lamps. two inner-tire tubes
and seventy-two sheets OF tin the prop
erty of w. II. Kimball. which had been
stored in an clubhouse at the rear OF the
hotel: Charles Brown. charged with the
theft of a revolver from the occupant OF
room at the Metropolitan hotel, and
Metcalf building. charged with the theft OF
50 from desk in one OF the Offices in the
building.
In district court yesterday Judge Thornell,
after hearing the testimony of the defend
ant in the divorce suit of Claude Blakeley
against Ida Blakeley. granted her the de-
cree on her cross petition. Mrs. Blakeley
testified to frequent assaults on the part
OF her husband and made special mention
of the beatings she said she had received
on the Fourth OF July and election day last
November. The beating on election day
brought their troubles to a elimination and
few days later Mrs. Blakeley was forced
to leave her husband. A stipulation as to
the division of their property was reached.
Mrs. Georgia Hull was granted a divorce
from her husband, Roy Hull as the latter
is now serving a life sentence in the Ana
Leary, foreman OF the Armour Paper COM
pany OF Toledo, Ia, In December, 1906 a
few months after his marriage to the
plaintiff
Owner needs money and will sell the fol-
lowing at bargain prices:
Dwelling. rooms, modern. No. liz 8.
Seventh st.
Dwelling. rooms. modern No 5l4 s.
Seventh St.
Dwelling. rooms. barn. etc. Frank St.
Dwelling. rooms, lincoln Ave.
Several LOTS E. Washington Ave, nicely
graded.
Six lots. q. Broadway. nicely graded.
Forty-four lots, near 8. Ninth St.