The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-02-02
BANK ROBBERS
ARE SENTENCED
RECEIVE GOOD TERMS IN THE
PENITENTlARY.
JURY CASES ARE COMPLETED
WORK OF TERM WILL PROBABLY
BE FINISHED THIS WEEK.

Tuesday night Judge Seward dis
missed the jurors, all OF the jury cases
to come up at this term having been
completed. 1t is expected the term
will be finished by the last Of the
week.
Lotus ana Forbes. the TWO bank
robbers who were inclined to fight
their cases. changed their minds and
decided TO follow the lead Of their two
c~onfederates who plead guilty early
in the term. The four men we're
brought before the court for sentence
Monday morning and Judge Seward
gave them terms of varying length in
the state penitentiary at Sioux Falls.
There were two counts against each
of the men for their attempts to rob
the banks at White and Bushnell.
Frank LOTUS was given the longest
sentence, eight years and nine months,
on the two counts and William Forbes
was given five years and II month.
William Reed and James Latan, the
oldest and youngest of the gang, we're
let off easier, each drawing four years
and nine months at Sioux Falls.
OF the other criminal cases on the
calendar the case against NJ. w. Elgie,
he Sinai druggist, charged with sell
ing intoxicating liquor, was the only
one tried. This case took up the time
of the court Monday and Tuesday and
each side called a considerable num-
Der of witnesses. The defendant
claimed that inasmuch as there was
no physician at Sinai the law gave
him the privilege Of selling liquor
without a prescription. However, the
jury thought otherwise and brought in
a verdict of guilty. Elgie will be sen
fenced this afternoon. The other
counts against him were continued
over the term. The case against r..
l.. Hawthorne, charged with selling
beer in the City of Brookings, and
Ray Roache, charged with indecent
exposure, were dismissed.
In the case OF the Farmers Elevator
Company of Elkton VS.. Emre Haze
man, the jury returned a verdict for
the plaintiff in the sun OK $3.50. In
the cas- of James Ruane VS.. ID. sharp,
the court sustained the judgment Of
the justice court, which was IN favor
of Ruane. In this case Ruane sued
for wages due him while working in
the jewellery store of the defendant
in this city,
The following cases were continued
over the tenn: DR.. J. G.. Parsons vs..
Ole Amundson; Florence Toilet VS..
ThOs. II. LAWN; c. II. Claussen vs..
John Moston; Bank Of Brookings VS..
G.. w. Van Dusen & Company; C. l..
Percival Company VS.. Jens Frandsen;
George A. Stead VS.. +. G.. Grover &
Company; Geo. A. Stead VS.. James
Christie: James NJ. Farrell VS.. Geo.
c. Scholl; William p. Karges VS.. Den.
hart & Alguire: G.. ID. Cole VS.. w. w.
Stevens; John Walsh VS.. Mary f..
Welsh, ct al. First State Bank of Elk
ton VS.. Walter C.. Peck, ct al; Geo. A.
Stead VS.. ]. Fl. and Eva Flanders; AL
bert G~roskinsky VS.. Frank c.. Snyder.
The divorce case of Theresa Puhr VS..
Frank Puhr was continued over, as
the plaintiff is under quarantine for
smallpox.
The following cases were settled or
dismissed: County of Brookings VS..
p. j. Murphy; Bank of Brookings VS..
7. j. Mutt; Geo. d. Cole VS.. the Bank
of Brookings; G.. w. Schultz VS.. Otto
Orlaske; Peter Hanson, ct al, VS..
Louis Johnson. ct al.
Tuesday Judge Seward granted a
divorce TO CatherineArnoId from Chas.
u. Arnold. The parties are from near
White. Yesterday the court heard
two more cases wherein the prin-
cipals declared they were mismated
or unsuited to each other or for other
good and sufficient reasons. Esther
NJ. Briggs was granted a decree from
+. l. Briggs and Anna Fjerstad was
set free from Lasse j. Fjerstad. All
the parties are from this city.