Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26
THORNELL WINDS UP COURT
No Business Ready for Hearing at the
September Term.
NO FORMAL ADJOURNMENT TAKEN
Not Many New Cases Filed for the
November Term, but Plenty Of Old
Ones on the Docket to Keep
Court Busy.

While no formal order OF adjournment
was entered by Judge ThornelI the business
OF the district court for the September term
was practically closed yesterday. Judge
T1ornell left for his home in Sidney and
stated lie would not return. Any court
matters which may demand the attention
OF a Judge viii be attended to by Judge
Wheeler.
The report Of Freeman J.. Reed as referee
In the suit Of the Monarch Printing com
Iany against John G. Small, one OF the
@l'ckholders and former manager of the
corporation. is in. The findings of fact are
lengthy and so into details of transactions.
In brief the report of the referee is that
small put $1,000 into the concern and that
lie drew out S1.S70 over and ABOVE the al
,owance made him for salary by agreement
or the partners. The referee finds that
small has no balance due him by
the company. but that he is indebted to it
IN an amount ranging from 800 to 500.
depending on what allowances are made in
computing the amount.
Agnes Morris, known as the woman In
brown who was arrested in June, 1907. on
the charge Of attempting 10 pick pockets
at Lake Manawa. and who has been under
Indictment over a year. appeared in court
Yesterday with her attorney and entered
q plea of guilty to the charge OF assault.
a line of 500 and costs was imposed in
the case.
on mo!lon OF Assistant County Attorney
Ross, j. j. Fisher. who was recently bound
over to the grand jury on a charge of lewd-
ness, was ordered by Judge Thornell re-
leased on his own recognizance in the sum
" 500. Fisher was arrested in company
with a WnD1an Oar,oJ Me- Cn1.z-- -
Metropolitan on the night Of October 3.
Mrs. Bessie Blanch Edwards was granted
u divorce from Roy 0. Edwards.
Yesterday was the last day for filing
suits for the November term and a num-
Der were filed, the majority, however.
being of minor Importance.
Jason Randall, a former employe OF the
street railway company. i'm a suit against
the company asks for $500 for alleged in
jury To his eye while working with a track
gang ON October IS OF this year. One OF
the men In laying granite blocks between
the tracks Clipped off a piece of the stone
aud il struck the plaintiff in the eve. On
behalf OF the plaintiff II is alleged that
the company was negligent in that the
men were made to work too close to one
another.
win The city the street railway company
~ "'Su Wdue uetendant IN a personal In
jury suit for 5000 brought by Mrs. Mary
J." West. While alighting from a car at
Nvonue A and Twenty fifth street Mrs. |
west says she received permanent injury
. her spine and back as the result OF
falling on a defective cinder crossing.
Charlie Dcmpster has brought suit
against tho Northwestern Railway com
rony for $i,2o for injuries alleged to have
been received July II last while operating
one Of the companv's coal chutes.
charles Beatty filed suit against James
"ad Martin Christensen. operating an auto
mobile garage ON West Broadway under
'ne firm name Of Christensen Bros. for
NtO damages. The plaintiff alleges that
while driving in a buggy on West Broad
way on tho night of July % last he was
run into by an automobile belonging to
the defendant firm and driven by one OF
its members.
The docket for the November term 50
far as new cases are concerned is a light
one. There are thirty new equity cases
and thirty-eight new law cases only.
There are go old equity and 1Ej old law
cases. There are seventy-three criminal
cases on Tho calendar and this number
WI lie Increased when The grand Jury com.
I'etcs rs work.