Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-10-08
BIG LIST Of CASES
Active Session Of Circuit Court Opened
at Ithaca, Monday
WILL TEST LOCAL OPTION LAW
MANY Cases Of Alleged Violation Of This Law
Are Down on Calendar

The October session OF Oratlot cnSuil
court opened Monday, Judge Kelly ,.
Searle presiding. After the reading OF
the calender, Judge Searle set October
26 as the date when he will hear all
motions. There will be no Jdry triais
until after the November elections
ATTORNEYS w. l.. Bahlke, @. II. Goggin'
D.L. Johnson and James G.. kress were
present at the opening.
The calender lists includes eighteen
criminal and thirty-four civil cases.
Among the criminal cases which come
mn for trial are several where the de-
fendant is charged with violating the
local option laws. These are practically
the first liquor cases TO be tried out III
circuit court since local option went in
to effect. Their course will be watched
with much interest, In the case OF the
people VS.. Belle Hopkins of Ithaca, the
prosecutor is attempting to prove the
defendant guilty of keeping house OF
Ill fame. Her arrest came as the result
of a movement among the Ithaca citizens
To drive ont all such characters from
their village.
The criminal cases include the follow
ing:
People VS.. Fred Derusha, statutory
rape; people VS.. Edwin Moore, bastardy;
people VS.. Oscar Pratt, attempt to COM
nit rape; people VS.. Frank j. Ray
embezzlement; people VS.. James A. Segar,
three indictments charging violation of
liquor law, and selling liquor unlaw-
fully people VS. Nj. A. Roberts, violat-
ing local option law; people VS.. Christy
Burch and Henry +. Bitner, violating
local option law; people VS.. Roscoe
Giles, being drunk; people VS.. Wesley
Howley, mayhem; the people VS. Christy
Burch and Henry T. Bitner, violating
local option law; people VS.. Belle Hop
kins. keeping house of i'll fame; people
VS.. Floyd Williams, deseftion and
abandonment of wife; people VS.. Charles
Green, statutory rape; people VS.. Henry
Lott, desertion; people VS., Mike Hudik'
indecent liberties with female,
The civil and chancery Gases are; W.
A. Hodge vs.. city of st. Louis, trespass
ON the case; Alice Upham VS.. f. Brad
ford Kille, replevin; Harvey Church VS..
Christopher r. and John Bobzeine,
trespass on the case; Elon p Potter as
county dram commissioner VS.. William
Klatt, assumpsit; Gertrude Moore VS..
Edwin Moore; John Meyer vs. Ann
Arbor railroad; Hazel Latimer vs.
Fred Derusha; David Reichard and
Mary J. Reichard vs.. w. II. and Mary
Wright, assumpsit; Viola Joslin VS..
William Stephenson, ct at, liquor bond;
Armaline Dickerson VS.. John Snyder;
Estella Follick VS.. Clinton Nelson, ct al;
Miles Baxter VS.. Ampter Otto and j. b.
Shaull, assumpsit; James X. Wright VS..
Chas. Bush, appeal; Daniel @. Whit
more VS.. Nicholas Mertens, trespass;
Wolf Netzorg VS.. w. T. Naldrett,
assumpsit, J. M. Secord, administrator
for Elizabeth l.. Secord, deceased, VS..
Alma college, tresIass on the case;
William X err VS.. w. j. Weeks, eject
ment; Clinton Nelson VS. Alma elevator
company; Francis I. RuHyan VS.. Calvin
II. Sherman, ct al, equitable mortgage;
John Robson VS. s. A. and II. l.. Tubbs,
special performance; Mark Fulkerson
and Ann Gott VS.. Joseph Grover, injuc-
ton bill; l. +. Hilsinger VS.. Mich,
sugar company, bill to remove cloud
from title Matte ]. Buttolph VS.. +. E.
Buttolph, divorce; Eva J. Lott VS..
Warner Lott, divorce; Fred Reynoldsvs.
Ella Reynolds, divorce; Maud l.. Swift
VS.. Edward Swift, divorce.