The Glenwood post., 1911-11-25

In the district court last saturday
evening the jury in the trial of Ms
Mamie Mitchell, charged with cattle
stealing, brought in a verdict OF guilty
and the prisoner was remanded to the
care of the sheriff in whose custody she
remained until Monday when friends
secured bond for her and she was re-
leased
Mrs. Mitchell had previously been on
trial three times in the district court
for larceny, twice with stealing horses
and once on the same charge on which
she was tried this term, the juries in
the other cases failing to agree
The accused was ably defended by
Judge Rucker and Judge Noonan and
it was freely predicted after the jury
had retired that nothing but sympathy
for woman would prevent convic-
ton. The charge was that she stole
and butchered a steer belonging 10
Paris Brothers of Rifle and while Mrs.
Mitchell did not deny the slaughter she
claimed that the animal she butcherei
was her own. A singular feature of
the case is the fact that the hide of
the animal, which was said to contain
the Paris brand, has never been found
and the effort of the defendant, through
her attorneys, to make it appear that
the hide had been stolen by some of
her accusers did not seem to make
nit with the jury. Judge Rucker asked
for the customary time in which TO
make formal application for a new
trial
Another case involving woman was
that of the People against Mrs. May
Snyder on charge of forgery, the
particular charge being that she signed
the name of Mrs. Goodnow to money
order made payable to the latter and
tried to cash the same at the office of
the Globe Express company. Judge
Dollison defended Mrs. Snyder largely
on the ground that she did not cash
the money order and that no one was
defrauded
Mrs. Snyder told rather straight
story, claiming that some woman dress
ed in black met her on the street and
handed her the money order, telling
her to get it cashed and she would wait
on the corner for her return. Mr.. Bar.
ton of the Globe Express company ra
fused to cash the order and Mrs. Sn5
der claims that when she returned TO
where she left the strange woman the
latter was gone and she had never seen
her since. This story and the fact that
the defendant little girl sat by the
side of her mother throughout the trial.
as sort of sympathy producer,
no doubt had much to do with the
.iury's failure to convict. 1t is said
that the vote stood six for conviction
TO six against conviction.
The case of the People against Norm
dH auiSy, cudiSeu WIFI rape Ou hi'
sisterin-law, the Lytle girl, was on
trial Thursday and the jury wrangled
with the case all night and until almost
noon yesterday when they reported to
Judge Shumate that they were not abe
to agree. 1t is said that this case will
be tried again, probably at this term
of the court. w. r.. Callicotte of the
State Humane society was the prosecut-
ing witness and Judge Rucker defended
Pauley.
The only murder trial of the term
and one such as seldom finds place on
a court docket was that of the People
against Burdette Smith of Rifle, charg-
ed with numbering his own father, H.
B. Smith, on August ~ last.
This was strangely sad case and
there was more than one moist eye in
the court room when the mother of the
prisoner, in deep mourning and with
bowed head, took the stand and in a