Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-30
OSCAR HOGAN
IS ON TRIAL
COLORED MAN INDICTED FOR AS
eSAuLT ON MISS MARY j.
MAHONEY.
SULLIVAN IS SUED
Undertaken Did Not Carry Out Con-
tract, Says PIaintlrT-Dlvorces
Granted and Other Suits
Filed.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Inc criminal docket was taken up
in the district court this morning.
Oscar Hogan indicted on a charge Of
criminal assault was placed on trial.
The jury was called at $3.50 o'clock,
and the examination as to fitness was
begun by County Attorney Cornell
after brief outline of the charges
against the prisoner.
Hogan was tried on the same charge
at the last term Of court, but the jury
then reported disagreement
Hogan is charged with attacking
Miss Mary ]. Mahoney while on her
way, and but few steps from her
home. She was dragged to the rear
OF the Episcopal church where she
was terribly injured and as result
was confined to the hospital for sew
eral weeks.
Miss Mahoney says that she could
not identify any one as her assailant.
but some time after the assault Oscar
Hogan was arrested charged with the
crime. The evidence against him as
brought out in the first trial was en-
rely circumstantial. He has been in
the county Jail since.
Sues Sullivan.
Mrs. Martha Smith has commenced
suit against Charles T. Sullivan ask
ing damages of $1,000 for failure to
perform a contract as alleged in plain
tiff's petition
Mrs. Smith says she is the widow
Of the late Wyatt Smith, and with
whose stepfather Walter Green and
his stepmother, the wife of Walter
Green were buried in separate lots in
the Ottumwa cemetery. She asserts
that she desired them transferred to
one lot and that she entered into
contract with Mr.. Sullivan to do the
same, agreeing to pay him SIS for the
job.
Plaintiff AYERS that Sullivan inform.
ed her that the work had been done
according to law and the rules of the
cemetery association. but that long
time afterward, she asserts she found
out that the remains had not been re-
moved properly and in fact a few
bones were dumped together in one
hole not over two feet under the sur
face of the ground. This, claims the
plaintiff, has, caused her great mental
worry and misery anG has upset her
peace of mind.
Van H. Caldwell has commenced
two suits, one against the Burlington
and another against the Burlington
and Rock Island railroad companies to
recover damages which he asserts
was caused him because Of water
overflow on his land west of the city.
when the railroad companies filled up
the trestle work under their tracks.
he demands damages Of $114 from
the 90 and the Rock Island and $500
from the @" alone. This Is for crop
damage since the filing in Of the
trestle in 1902.
Foreclosure.
Louise Johnson has commenced suit
against j. B. Helmick, Lovey ]. Hell.
mick, P H. Fisher, j. W. Fisher. Jr.,
and Mary Fulton the latter three hav.
ing some interest in the estate, for
the recovery Of the northwest quastor
Of the northeast quarter of section 20,
part Of the northeast quarter of the
northwest quarter of section 20, and
southeast quarter of southwest quar-
ter of section 90
Divorces Granted.
Minnie A. Heckart was yesterday
granted a divorce from her former
husband, Fred Heckart. Desertion
and cruelty were the charges. Just
before leaving for Oklahoma, plaintiff
asserted that defendant approached
her at the breakfast table with drawn
fist and said, I'll blow your head
from your shoulders The four chill
dren are given into the custody Of
the mother
Meta J. Mooney VS.. Walter Mooney
divorce decree granted; cruelty and
inhuman treatment and drunkenness
the charges.