The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
Warfield Is indicted for an As
sauIt On an Officer.
Defendant Pleads Not Guilty;
Mr.. Barr Out on Bail.
Number of Cases Are Taken
Care Of BY the Court.

The grand jury completed It's work
this forenoon and was discharged Just
before noon. At eleven o'clock it
brought in two indictments, and also
a report to the effect that the Jail
is clean and neatly kept, and recon-
mending that it be lighted by cleo
tricity. This afternoon ten of the
grand jurors drove out to the poor
farm to look it over
No indictments having been found
against Ferdinand Heller, charged with
assaulting William Steinberg, and
with the theft of some hides at Lake
Crystal, they We're discharged.
This afternoon J. NJ. Warfeld was
arraigned upon an indictment charg,
ing him with having on Nov. 20 COM
mitted an assault upon Patrolman
George w. Simmonds with intent to
kill him. Warfield was represented
by c. J. Laurisch as attorney and en-
tered plea of not guilty.
The other party indicted is thought
to be Frank Barr who is out on bail,
and it is expected that his arraign
ment will take place tomorrow.
This afternoon the roll of the petit
Jury was called, and all answered to
their names except Theodore Olson of
Sterling, who has been excused OH
account of sickness.
In the case of Ole simonson and
Il. o. Weeks vs.. c. y. Sonnesyn and
J. c. Noe. the court denied mo-
tion for issues for the jury and
motion for the inspection of papers.
The court granted a motion to
of the estate of the late Mary VIII
e liams Thomas Hughes, appellant, vs..
Lewis Williams, respondent.
Midland Machinery Case.
In the case of the Midland Ma
chinery company VS.. the. Mankato
Mailing company and the case of
Charles J. Macbeth VS.. Oscar Bier
bauer and f. X. Aleagher as trustee,
the court granted the motions to
transfer to another judge and struck
the case from the cdlcHudl.
In the case of Theodore Schmidt VS..
Henrietta Schlegel the motion to va
cate the Judgment was granted and
the case was stricken from the cal
endar.
In the case of the state of Mime
sofa vs.. George Bogart, motion to
continue was granted, Il new bond to
be given.
The case of Kate ID. Watts VS..
George w. Watts was continued, on
motion of the plaintiff.
4 motion to amend the answer was
allowed in the case of Eleanor Jewett
vs.. the Standard Brewing company
and William Irving.
In the case of Henry Clemens VS..
Mary NJ. Clemens, the motion to
strike from the calendar was denied.
The case of Minnie Miller VS.. Frank
Miller was stricken from the calen
dar,. having been settled.
Goodrich Divorce Case
Tile divorce case of Emma Good
rich VS. William Goodrich was tried
before the court yesterday afternoon,
c. O. Daley appearing for the plain
tiff. and there being no appearance
for the defendant. The court today
filed an order granting the divorce, on
the ground of desertion. The plain
tiff is thirty nine years old, and the
defendant forty, and they were mar
ried at St. Peter May co. 1900, and
i'm March. 1903, the defendant desert
ed the plaintiff in Mankato. There is
no issue
This afternoon the case of Leah
Strobel a. administrative of the es-
tate of Mary OFT, deceased, VS.. George
OFT and Barbara Schostag went to
trial Personal property to the value
of $3.50 is involved, which is claimed
by the estate of the late Mary OFT
and also by the estate of the late
Mary Otis daughter, the late Mary
Ann OFT. Pau & Pau and Z. j.
Laurisch appear for the plalntih, and
S. b. Wilson and I'll. l.. & j. w.
Schmitt for tho dafeudants