The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-07
Rev. Venerable VS.. M. f. Burton ct al
Set for Next Monday and
Big Time Looked
OTHER POLICE NOTES
Ray Carroll, Who Disappeared Monday
Evening Has Not Yet Been
Located-Fishtlns Last
Evening.

JuuSe MCNaIudrA looked worried CllS
morning when his superior court room
was filed with plaintiffs, defendants at
torneys, spectators and others, but the
business of the morning was disposed
Of much easier than was at first an
ticipated.
The defendants in the case of Rev.
Venerable VS.. M. F. Burton, Kate Bur
ton, Mary Smith, Wayne Smith and
Athel Smith appeared in person after
much skirmishing on the part of the
Seventh street Baptist church minls.vr
Who failed to put in an appearance
this morning. The time of trial was
set for next Monday, the hour to be
agreed upon later. In addition to the
many defendants and a few witnesses
the court room contained number o:
other colored people who came to wit
ness the trial.
A Levee Fight.
John Griffith, Tip Clark and M.
Mcdonald, charged with fighting last
evening on the levee, were arraigned
before the judge and pleaded guilty to
the charge OF engaging in the alterca-
ton. All three were fined five dollars
and costs, in default Of payment OF
same they were to go to the city jail
for five days. The trio was arrested
last evening and brought to the station
by officers. Marshal Kesselring hap,
pened to be coming along during the
fight and took a hand, soaking one OF
the battlers over the head with an
umbrella
| An information has been filed
against Bertha and Henry Stice BY
Mrs. Morrissey. living at the corner
of Fourth and Timea street, charging
them with disturbing her peace.
Carroll Not Found.
At noon today information reache,
police headquarters that Ray Carroll
the Hamilton man who drove off in
buggy in this city Monday eN1ing
had not vet turned up and his wifi,
and family continued in their worry
.ment about him. AS stated In las
evenings Gate City he was in al
intoxicatcs condition when he err. t
ed in the driving rain and is probabl.
many miles from the city at the pres
ent time
BertIlion Measurements.
/ Special Agent Shorts of the Durline
ton, who figured in the capture of Jun
Jones and Will Davis, the two negroe
now in the city and county jail charg
ed with robbery, was in Keokuk yes
terday and together with tn
police took the measurement
of the two colored men whic7
will be sent to Chicago. i
the men are wanted and have alread
been measured by the Bertillion sys
tenn their record can be looked UP b.
police in that city.
4 Jones, the little fellow of the two
presented almost a physically perfec
man as far as muscle was concerned
but he is much too short. His age /
thirty-nine years and heighth five fee
four and three quarters inches. HI
weighs 145 pounds, has black hair an
brown eyes. He has stab wound i
his back and number of bulle
wounds about his body. by which h
could easily be identified at any time
He has seven gold crowns in his uppe
jaw.
Jim Jones.
Alias Jim Wilson gave his age a
forty-nine and his height as III inche
over six feet. He is but ten pound
under, the 200 mark and his build
slender for big man. All fingers {
, both hands are enlarged and deforn
ed. He has several scars other tina
J those left by his recent bulle
wounds.