Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-10-24
GRAND JURY
IGNORED CASES
FAILS TO FIND INDICTMENT
AGAINST DAVE CHESSER
AND SIX OTHERS.
YOUNG CASE STARTS
Suit to Recover 5000 Insurance Pol
10y Started This Morning.; Rail-
road Case Dismissed; Rate
Cases Decided.

There will be no criminal prosecu
tons during the October term of the
United States court in Ottumwa be
cause the federal grand Jury failed te
return true bills except in one in
stance, that Of Ebert J. Noble FOL
bootlegging, and the hearing Of this
charge was continued until next term
in the spring of 1918. The bond con
tinued in force. .
The half dozen young men charged
with hindering and retarding the
United States mails by riding on the
fast mail trains and David Chesser
charged with stealing mail bag from
the Milwaukee-Wabash depot, were
all discharged for want Of evidence
to indict. The men released were
Charles Brewer, Clyde Dowd, William
Mckinley, Fay Young, Arthur Har'
ris and Carl Martin. %3
The grand jury made it's report at
II a. m. today and was thanked by
the court and discharged.
E. j. Noble, who was indicted for
selling liquor without having first
paid the United States tax. was ar
raigned and pleaded not guilty. He
told the court that he had no counsel
because he did not think he would be
indicted, and asked to have his hear
ing set for the next term.
The case of May Baker Young
against the United Commercial Trav-
elers, that was to have started yes
terday, was reached this morning. A
Jury was empanelled and the counsel
started their opening statements to
the Jury shortly after II o'clock. The
case is one wherein Mrs. Young is
suing for the value of the policy held
by her husband, Lew Young, for
$4,000. The suit is being fought on a
number Of grounds, among them be-
ing that the death was not accidental
and that the decedent was not in good
financial standing with the company
at the time Of his death, due to al
legged lapsing of his insurance because
of failure to meet the last assessment
prior to his death. ,
Railroad Case Settled.
Among the cases disposed of yes
terday afternoon was that of John
Southern against the Wabash railroad
company,for damages. The case was
settled per stipulation fled, which
gives the plaintiff $1,000. 49, E'~
Two other cases which were first
tried here under the interstate COM
merce commission laws governing
railroad freight rates, were also dis
posed of. The cases were those Of the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fee VS.. j.
M. Downey, and the same plaintiff
against T. E. Noller. The former de-
PENDANT was ordered to pay claim
Of $13.06 and costs and the second de-
PENDANT the sum Of SIS and costs.
The grand jurors selected yester-
day were E. G. Davis, Church Porter,
w. Linn and Eber Dixon Of Ottumwa
and the following from outside Of
tumwa:
Geo. Beatty, Thornburg: Harry G.
Brown, foreman. Sigourney; w. G.
Fairfield; Alexander Collins
Abba; Harry Conner, Milton; Frank
Hayesville; L. H. Jackson,
Eugene Lambert, What
Cheer; J. @. Lewis, Sigourney; ].
Nose Mcclure. Eldon; Geo. P. Mad
den, Brighton; Evan Morgan, Oska-
loosa; F. P.Mowry, Hedrick; Ira
Noble, Abba; T. S. Patton, Abba;
George Rudd, West Grove; James B
Speer, Fairfield; Raleigh Wilson, He'd.
rick; w. A. Wilkin, Abba.