Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-24
Council Bluffs
JUCDE MUNGER CALLS COURT
Omaha Magistrate Takes Up Work Of
Federal Docket.
BOOTLEGGERs GIVEN SENTENCE
quarrel Between women over Misuse
OF Mails UnrnveIed and settled
ny Payment Of small


Judge W H Munger u Omaha Yesterday
accepted pleas OF guilty from several u
indicted persons in federal court and
passed sentence upon three persons Mrs.
Mabel Carr OF Council Bluffs ami Ernest
Scott. negro bootIegger from Red oak.
and Matthias Jensen OF Harrison county
Mrs Carr had been Indicted for sending
scurrilous postal cards through the mail
to Mrs william AImv. also Of this citv
The cards were abusive hut not otherwise
objectionable. and grew out OF bitter
quarrel bstween the two women. Mrs. Carr.
who appeared as dTgnified eif-Bossessed
young woman. told the cuurt that she
had mostly returned the cards that Mrs.
Almg had sent her through the mail sim
ply erasing her own name and address and
writing N that Of Mrs. Army 50 that she
unwitunEiy placed in possession OF Mrs.
Amy all OF the evidence that her enemy
had likewise tTangressed the postal laws.
Judge Munger gave Mrs carr kindly
warning and fined her * and costs. which
her husband. who Is a railway switchman.
Immediately stepped forward and paid.
Scott. the negro bootlegger. was sentenced
70 pay a tine OF 500 and costs and serve
thirty DAYS in the Red Oak iail. In making
the order sending Scott to Red Oak. judge
Munger took advantage OF the opportunity
to give the Council Bluffs tail another shot.
declaring that ne could not sentence a fed-
eral prisoner to confinement there N face
OF the continuous reports that the build
ing was unsanitarv. scott interposed a plea
70 be permitted to remain here but the
court refused to consider it,
Jensen pleaded guilty to sending an OBJ
scene letter through the mail and received
n fine OF so and costs. a plea N guilty
was made by James P Leeper. a boot
logger, but Withdrawn before sentence was
imposed
Indictments Made Public.
Among the indictments made public were
those charging Albert Truesdale and Fred
A. Lee with robbing the postoffice at
Valeria. Ia. The men ara now under ar
rest at Parsons Kan. and will be brought
here for trial They are said to b. couple
CT boyish tramps who broke into the post
office and stole all OF the money in sight
and a quantity Of postage stamps. They
were followed by the postal inspectors and
captured at the Kansas town. The grand
jury ignored the charges against Pearl
Eberhart. Stephan Arnold and John Cars
bens. sam Lane and Fred NJ MichaeIs.
switchmen held TO the grand jury on the
charge OF breaking into a bonded car. were
discharged for lack Of evidence.
Judge Munger in the afternoon. EN-
paneied a jury and began the trial OF the
suit OF W. L. Tanner against g. Z. BOur-
bon and other officers OF a mining COM
pany located at Roundsville Colo. The
suit involves i60o0 OF unpaid wages, claimed
to be due miners employed. All Of the
claims we're assigned 70 Bourbon one of
the number and the suit is brought in
his name. John 6. Wharton and 2. G. Bur
bank of Omaha are counsel for the men
and A. L. Preston of Avoca Ia. for the
company. The case is being tried mostly
ON dispositions taken in Colorado.
The grand jury was discharged.