The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-11-16
JUDGE MAXWELL SICK
Court Adjourned Until Monday, Nov.
: 18th when Trial of Tom Young
will AGAIN be Taken Up.

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the illness of Judge Maxwell, until
Monday, November 9th, when the
trial of Tom Young, charged with the
murder of Mrs. Bertha Zornes, near
DeKalb, last December, will be again
taken up.
When The Reporter went to press
last Wednesday the work of selecting
jury in the Young case was in pro-
gress, a special venire of IS jurors
having been summoned in addition
to the regular panel of "a. On
Thursday morning it looked as if it
would be impossible to secure a jury
from the regular and special panel
and Judge Maxwell ordered second
special venire of 80 jurors summoned
to appear at noon on Thursday. Af-
ter the special venire was drawn
eleven jurors were secured and by
agreement of the prosecution and de-
fense it was agreed to try the case to
a jury of eleven members, and the
following were sworn in as the jury
after noon on Thursday: ]. P. Wolf,
Garden Grove; George Gilchrist, Bur-
rell; c. L. Axes, Center; T. w.
Daniels, Burrell; w. c. Beavers,
Woodland; J. NJ Bethards, Wood
land; R. r. Havens, Decatur; F. E.
Hammer, Fayette; A. J. Fulton,
Eden; C. C. Bright, Morgan; Otis
Peters, Bloomington.
: "A rahter peculiar coincidence in
the selection of the jury is that of
the regular and special venire 80
jurors, Sc reported for duty, and
from this number II jurors were
selected.
- Judge Maxwell had'not been feeling
we'll for several days and after the
jury was sworn in he felt he was not
able to proceed with hearing the
case and court was adjourned until
Monday at 1880 o'clock, Judge Max
we'll returning to his home at Cres-
ton. He returned to Leon Monday
and the trial of the case was COM
menced at once, although Judge
Maxwell was quite sick. The attor-
neys made their statements to the,
Jury and three or four witnesses
were examined Monday afternoon.
Tuesday morning Judge Maxwell was
SO sick that 1t was necessary to call
q physician to see him and the phys
ician positively forbade him getting
out of bed, SO it was, impossible to
proceed with the trial and by agree
menf .of the attorneys court was
postponed until Monday, November
f27tk when. the cases will again bel
taken up. Judge Maxwell was feel
ing some better Wednesday and was
able to- return to his home at Cres-
ton.
T. The docket of our court is getting
in a very bad state and it will prob
ably be necessary to hold special
session of three or four weeks some
time soon. The trials of the criminal
cases this year have occupied prac-
tically, all of the time of the regular
sessions and many cases are waiting
to be tried. 1t looks as if the only
way to clear up the docket Is to hold
a special term of court.
The following cases have been dis
posed of since our report last week:
Criminal.
State VS.. Macy Stephen, grand
jury ignores charge, defendant dis
charged and bond exonerated.
State VS.. Will Owen, grand jury ig-
nores charge, defendant discharged
and bond exonerated.
State vs.. Leo Boatman, grand jury
ignores charge, defendant discharged
and bond exonerate.
State VS.. A. c. Wilson. Dismissed
at defendants cost.
Probate.
Guardianship of Harrison Brown,
final report approved, guardian al
lowed $3.50 for his services to date.
Guardianship of Henry Stanley,
annual report of guardian approved.
Sale of personal property to Henry
Stanley, jr., on credit and note taken
for same is approved.
Law and Equity.
. Coral Horner VS.. Elizabeth A.
Smith, ct. al. Report of sales and
deeds approved and clerk ordered to
certify same.
R. w. Braden VS.. E. o. Lovett.
Settled and dismissed.
Austin Olsen, ct. al. VS.. Maud Jud-
son, ct. al. Settled, as per stipula-
tions and agreement of partition.
Mary E. Golf VS.. L. H. Goff. Dis
missed.
w. H. Bronson VS.. Walter Venn,
ct. ALL Dismissed without prejudice.
Uncle John Holden Dead.
TTnclo 1Ohn Holden one of the