The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-05-28
SENTENCE
FOUR men
Pleas Of Guilty Entered By
BGSIng, Thomas, Randall
and Glover

touI men 10 tue pen lul loul A'al"
each was tho record achieved by
Judge Kinder yesterday afternoon
ny exchange OF benches Judge Kin
der OF Planview, is presiding in the
district court here and Judge Brown
ing is presiding &C the trial OF a case
at Plainview in which Judge Kinder
is disqualified. Yesterday afternoon
after the local option contest case
had been closed and had been taken
under advlsement by Judge Hen
dicks, Judge Kinder took charge Of
Inc court and began on the regular
criminal docket The four men sen
fenced are G, G. Glover, forgery;
John Randall, forger, and Besing and
Thomas, horse theft.
Given Minimum Sentences.
All four OF the men entered pleas
Of guilty as their cases were called
and tho Judge instructed the juries
TO return verdicts in accordance with
the pleas and further advised the fix
ing OF minimum penalties.
G. G. Glover Is the young stranger
who attempted forging of check
on the account OF F, L. Davidson
with the First National Bank. The
check was caught at the Saylor &
Kendall store where he offered 1t
and, after investigation, he was
placed under arrest. He had sew
eral other bogus checks in his pos
session and had apparently planned
campaign OF check passing. He is
young fellow and his bungling
methods indicate that this is prob
ably his first serious offense.
john Randall Is a young fellow
who passed a check for 1915 At the
bartlett grocery store. The check
was drawn on Coleman-Lysaght-
Blair account with the Amarillo Ma
tional Bank, Randall made no at
tempt TO fight the case after the evil
dence was shown him and yesterday
asked the lenienCy Of the court.
Besing and Thomas we're arrested
about a year ago for the theft of
live head OF horses from the Sneed
pasture north OF Amarillo. The men
we're traced through the Canadian
breaks country and wers finally ar
rested at Delhart. Besing and
Thomas figured prominently last win
ter in the Jail delivery on Christmas
day. The yescaped when the ground
was covered with snow, were lost for
several weeks and were finally re-
captured at a camp in the breaks
cast OF Tucumcarl, n. NJ. The sher-
IFS department here paid $500 for
cieir capture. Felts, convicted
trunk thief escaped at the same time
and has never been apprchended.
Much Business for Court.
Judge Browning was expected to
return this afternoon from Plain
view and to take charge of court to-
day. After the announcement of the
courts decision in the contest case
no further business was taken up in
court this morning.
The contest case has now been in
court for two weeks and three days
and with today has been in trial for
nine days. AS a result the arrange
ment Of work on the docket must be
greatly changed and although Judge
Browning has used his time to settle
as much OF the business as could
properly be taken up while the other
case was under trial, there yet re-
mains an amount OF business which
will make 1t almost impossible for
the court to gee through with the
docket at this term. Several import
ant criminal cases are ready for trial
and several civtl suits which will
take long trials are on the docket.