The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-10-15
CIRCUIT COURT
NOW IN SESSION
First Day Occupied on
Calendar and DispOs-
ing of Criminals.
10 CRIMINAL CASES REMAIN
Jury Coming Monday. First Case
Will be The People VS..
Ambrose Paulson.

The October term of the circuit court
was opened Monday afternoon, Judge
Des Voignes, presiding. Practically the
entire session was occupied with arrang-
ing the calendar and disposing of the
largest bunch Of criminals ever brought
from the Jail into court at one time. As
Sheriff Chappell sat in their midst one
could but think of the familiar quota
tion, Where can a person better be, than
in the bosom of his family!
There were % criminal cases on the
docket, but when the court got through
with them there remained but 10 cases
TO be disposed of. john +. Thompson
aud f. Kurtz each pleaded guilty to
having violated the provisions of the To-
ca option law; Thompson was fined $50
ard costs. Electus Murray, Claude
Murray. Fern Calvin, James Lang, Har-
ry Spcer, mot our Paw Paw Harry
Adolph ST. George, Henry Cordes and
Emil Staudt, all charged with burglary,
each entered a plea of guilty. l.. q.
Olmstead pleaded guilty to charge of
forgery, James Wade to larceny and
Charles Stevens to having abandoned
his wife. The charge of violation of the
local option law pending against John
Berrdge was nolle pros ID, be being now
doing time in the state prison at jack
son on conviction of charge of perjury
growing oIt of the same transaction.
Pleas Of not guilty were entered in the
cases of Ambrose Paulson and hartman
/ LOOMS, each charged with statutory
rape, also in the larceny case charged
against Charles Thompson, alias George
| Lawrence also IN the cases Of Forry l..
! Brott, charged with abandonment of his
! wife, Francis j. Birney, embezzlement
John Sykes for violation of local option
law and Charles Weller, alleged to have
too many wives The case of the people
vs. Gilbert Carroll, appeal from justice
court was dismissed, the respondent
! having paid the fine aud costs assessed
against him in the lower court Sentence
was suspended on Warren Lonsberry,
convicted in justice court of malicious
destruction of property and an appeal
taken; also on James Lang and Fern
| Calvin, each OF whom had plead guilty
to having committed a burglary. All
| three OF these were young lads aDd the
court gave them some excellent advice
and ordered them to report to him on
| the second Monday in January next for
| further consideration of their cases
! Should the lads conduct themselves in
/ an exemplary manner there is little dan.
| ger of sentence ever being pronounced
/ against them, as udge Des Voignes be-
/ lieves in tempering justice with mercy,
especially in the case of boys who have
/ no previous criminal record.
The first criminal case which will he
heard next week will he the people vs.
Ambrose Paulson. The jury will be in
attendance next Monday.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. l3.
Emma Campbell vs.. Joseph Booth.
Order for security for costs in th5 sum
of $50
Jennie Gilbert VS.. L. c. StIfer. Judg-
meut by stipulation 10 favor of plain
tiff, S575
In the matter of petition OF Edward
! G. Egells aud wife FOR discharge Of
mortgage Order of discharge entered.
The case of the people vs.. r. j Birney
was continued over the term
THURSDAY, Oct. IA
The people vs. James Mcdowell. Ar
ragued Stood mute. Plead not guilty
| by order of court.
The people vs.. Geo Lawrence, alias
Charles Thompson. Motion to quash.
Motion to quash overruled.
People vs. Hartman Loomis. Motion
to quash information. Motion over
! ruled
The People VS.. Free Kurtz. Violation
Of local option law. 30 days from and
inclndiug his date.
The People VS.. Chas. Stevens. Aban-
! donment. Filed bond in sum of $500 for
payment to wife ia sum of "a per week
/ uptiI furtbar ordar of courr