The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-04-27
SURPRISES FOR
COURT WEEK
Minor Who Voted Gets Sem
fenced to Six Months
in Jail.
Grand Jury Recommends the
Sale of the New Coun-
ty Home.

Judge Olson is to be commended
for the prompt and business-like way
in which he manages the business Of
his court, and by which all of the
jury cases last week were disposed
of in about three days. While the
number of cases was greatly reduced
before the opening of court, nearly
a half dozen juries were impaneled
for the disposal of cases during the
term, in addition to the cases inyolv-
ing law points only.
The case of Geo. N. Helms VS.. R.
E. Mckee, involving settlement of
partnership accounts. was first tried,
the jury finding for the defendent to
the amount of $45O.45. A. H. Ener-
son for plaintiff, Frank Clague for
defendant.
Two suits were tried involving
claims for work done by farm hands
on season contracts, and payment
cancelled in part on account of the
failure of the laborer to fulfill his
contract. The juries in both cases
returned verdicts of no cause for ac-
ton. There is evidently strong
sentiment among jurors that when
a farmer hires man for the season
he has right to hold his man to the
terms of the contract, and withhold
payment of wages in case his help
quits and leaves the employer to get
help elsewhere. The attorneys in
the case of Carl PRESS VS.. VIM. Vohs
were Werring for the plaintiff and
Judge Laudon for the defendent; in
the case of Aug. Leidenberg VS..
Wesley Allen. A. H. Emerson APP
peared for the plaintiff, Frank
Clague for the defendant.
The last case tried was that of the
Western Elevator Co. VS.. Frank
Langham, where agent Ziemer claim
ed that he made an oyer-payment to
the defendant in crediting up eleva-
tor tickets. The jury found for the
elevator company to the amount Of
$121.37. G. 7. Howard represented
the elevator company and A. G..
Dolliff the defendent.
All the criminal cases before the
court at this term went through
without contest.
The case of the State VS.. Clarence
III. Ackmann, growing out of the
def endant voting during the last city
election, although minor, was per-
haps of the most interest locally.
Young Ackmann entered plea of
guilty and the court sentenced him
to six months in Jail. If the young
man acted under the advice of older
men, it seems unfortunate that the
latter cannot be made to answer for
their share of the penalty. No good
citizen should desire victory brought
about in that way, and after this
kind of warning, it is not likely that
any Redwood Falls citizen will be re-
sponsible for repeating the offense.
Chas. Dietz charged with larceny
of oats from Lamberton warehouse
plead guilty and was given a ninety
day sentence in the county Jail.
: Herman Hardt of Sanborn plead
guilty and paid a $500 fine for selling
liquor on Sunday.
Peter Teller, Chas. Dietz. Otto
Brasket and Hermann Feuerstein'
plead guilty to gambling at Sanborn
and paid fines of $40 each. It is UNI
derstood that their arrest grew out
of the grand jury investigation of
the finding of the dead body of Lewis
Miller in the Sanborn switching
yards, the above named defendants
having been members of the card
party at which Miller was last seen
alive.
The grand jury also brought in
dictments against H. j. Schuman
and John Drexler for Sunday selling