Mexico Missouri message., 1911-09-07
CIRCUIT COURT.
Convened Last Monday - The
First Case Heard-The
Petit Jury.

cases on the docket and 19 days
set to try them in.
Charles KidweH, charged with
disturbing the peace, was called
to the bar Of the court. James
Hendrix was accuser. Kidwell
was fined $500 and costs.
The following compose the petit
jury;
Salt River Township: - John
Kemp, j. Fl. Minor, Joel Gard, w.
E. Workman, j. T. Wayne.
Sailing Township IS. c. Kin
caid.
Wilson Township: - L. r.
Ridgeway, j. r. Hayes, J. D. Beat
ty, j. W. Curry.
Linn Township &C. II. Femme
valid, A. j. Landrum.
Prairie Township j. B. Will
son, Morris Eubanks.
Loutre Township e. P. John
son, j. r. Dorgan.
Cuivre Township e. P. Nor
ris, Geo. NJ. Price, S. G. Foster, 2.
T. Bondurant, w. P. johnson.
Clarence Carter, colored, who
confessed to shooting his brother,
Melvin Carter, in the back one
night this summer, at a dark spot
on the railroad track in Mexico to
get 800 insurance on Melvin's
life, was sentenced to ten years in
the penitentiary. Melvin Carter
was badly wounded, it will be re-
membered, but he recovered.
jim Jones, Joe Cooper and Jim
Earl, charged with robbing B. R.
Middleton of his pocketbook and
money at the Airdome during the
Fair, plead not guilty and are to
have trial September 25th.
Ed. Neff, charged with fell
onious assault on Ernest Robbins.
a G. & A. brakeman on an excur-
sion train this summer between
Mexico and Louisiana, plead not
guilty and is to have trial.
The case of Ben McWhirt VS..
the c. & A. R. r. was sent to
Rails county by change of venue.
Our Laddonia correspondent
speaks of baby being found on
the steps Of Curt Stevens store
Tuesday morning. 1t was in a
box with a Vandalia business
firms initials on it. There had
been heavy rain a few hours be-
fore the baby was left there and
Maurice Smith, son of City Mar
shall c. A. Smith, tracked a buggy
a.
from Stevens store to the home
OF Preston Houglan, five miles
southeast of Vandalia. Young
Smith came upon Houglan Just in
from a trip and he was washing
the mud off his buggy. He asked
Houglan something about the
baby, but he stubbornly denied
everything. But young Smith
faced him with several contra
dlStlons in his story and finally he
confessed all. He and Miss Cordia
Beshears had been married about
two months and their baby was
born last Sunday night. He told
young Smith that his mother-in-
law wanted him to get rid of the
baby but he was opposed to it,
yet ne allowed her to persuade
MN into the course he had taken.
Young Smith reported the case to
the officers and Wednesday morn
ing City Marshal j. R. Acuff of
Nandalia brought Houglan to
Mexico. He was arraigned be-
fore Justice Allen Stallings
charged with the "crime of
abandoning an infant child under
the age of six years on the 4th of
September, 1911" He plead
guilty and in default of $500 bail
was sentenced to Jail. 1t is re-
ported here that young Houglan
and Miss Beshears are the couple
who were married on the stage
at a show in Vandalia some time
ago. Hougland gave bond late
yesterday in the Circuit Court
Fred Stapleton, colored, ac-
cused of stealing chickens from
l.. A. Bybee, plead guilty and was
given two years in the penitenti-
airy.
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