Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-10-17
From Fridays Daily
-FOUR ARE INDICTED
BY THE GRAND JURY

It's deliberations in the criminal
cases submitted by the District At.
torney. Four indictments wer.
found by the Grand Jury and are
as follows.
b McComb Of Wells grand lar
ceny. He is charged with stealing
a horse on April /, 1913.
Frank A Hulto, forgery for a
signature to an affidavit before JUS
tice Of the Peace Phil Triplett at
Wells on May 10, 1918.
Jack Griffin. robbery. Griffin is
accused Of robbing Fay White Of
S2O.05 in the Elk Saloon on Satur-
day Oct. 4.
Frank Brophy. burglary. Bur-
ply is accused of rIbbing a West
ern Pacific car at Carlin on Nov l6.
1912.
The defendants except Hutto
were brought into court this fore
noon to plead to the indictments
returned against them. Probably
the hardest fought case to be tried
at the present term of Court will
be that # + b McComb, of Wells.
accused of horse stealing and in
dicted on a charge of grand lar
ceny. James D,sart his attorney
asked for a delay until Oct Is to
enter his plea. Mr. Dysart said
Mr. Weber the senior attorney for
the defense could not be here until
Oct l6 as he was engaged on a
case in Utah. The court granted
the request. Mr. Dysart said he did
not want to take the responsibility
OF entering a plea at this time in
the absence of the senior counsel.
He said the state was ably repre-
scented by counsel and he wanted
able counsel for the defense. He
said the state vas going to have
FIVE or six noted lawyers and he did
not feel like going against such an
aggregation single handed. The
court accepted his explanation. The
fight to prosecute and also to de-
fend McCJmb's is going 10 be a
hummer. For the state District At
torney Carville and Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Cantwell will ap-
pear. Both are cracker.jack law
yers. In addition Curlrr & Gedney
and Henderson & Game will aid
the prosecution. Gedney has made
a reputation as a criminal lawyer
Of great ability and Judge Curler
is one Of the smoothcst PROPOSE
tiOns in the state. Then comes Hen
dcrson & Game who are rated top
Hotchers. This makes six of the
ablpst lawyers in the state for the
prosecution. For the defense MIR
Dysart of Elko and Mr. Webber Of
Ogden will meet the onslaughts
of the big Six"
Frank Brophy indicted for bur-
Rlary plead not guilty.. Hale &
Fee were assigned by the court to
defend him. Trial was set for
October 20. 10 a m.
Jack Griffin, indicted for rob-
berry was given until Saturday at 4
p IN to plead. r c Van Fleet was
assigned to defend him.
Frank a Hutto indicted for for
gerry will be arraigned on Oct Is
and then plead.
Hutto's case is rather an unusual
one. He is a lawyer at Twin Falls,
Idaho, and accounted a shrewd
attorney. 1t is said that he was
engaged as attorney in a certain
Bookkeeping case in Idaho and that
on May 10, 1919 he came to Wells
and appeared before Justice of the
Peace Phil S Triplett and made
an affidavit under a name not his
own. II is said he then took this
affidavit to Twin Falls and intro
duced il III court as evidence in the
case IN which he was appearing.
The fraud, was discovered and cub
sequently the matter was reported
20 the Elko county authorities and
then submitted to the present
grand jury which returned an in
dictment for forgery.
The trial Of the various criminal
cases for this term of court has
been set down for October 20. The
district attorney has not yet ar
ron1ed the order in which the cases