The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-06-11
CIRCUIT COURT NOTES.


week was occupied in clearing the
criminal calendar.
The first case tried was the state VS..
Richard Pautz, prosecution arising
from a night of joy-riding and debauch-
cry indulged in by two Sheboygan
women and some local men last fall.
One of the women and man are now
serving penitentiary sentences under
plea of guilty" as result OF the es-
capade and were here in custody OF
prison officers to give their testimony
for the state The expected salaeious
character of the testimony brought
many auditors. Pautz was the owner
of .he car which the gang had used and
he claimed that he was not actually OF
the party. The jury found him mot
guilty. evidently refusing to attach
much weight to the testimony OF the
witnesses who accused him.
The state VS.. Ernest Drews, a pro-
ceeding instituted to fasten paternity
of the child of Whitelaw girl upon
the defendant occupied only part or
Friday. The defense relied with APP
parent confidence upon the fact that
upon the complainants own testimony
the birth occurred nearly weeks la
ter than the expiration of normal ges-
tation, if the defendant is guilty, an
utter impossibility according to physi-
clans. The jury however found him
guilty" A motion to set this aside Is
pending
The only remaining criminal case,
City of Manitowoc VS.. Frank Zeman Jr'
was taken up late Friday afternoon.
Zeman was accused of violating the II
O'Clock liquor ordinance adopted last
summer, by selling liquor at the Star
Hotel one night last November from
midnight till $50 A. M. A jury found
him guilty in municipal court and he
appealed. In circuit court at the jan
uary term the jury was out "a hours
and couldn't agree. AT the third trial
last Saturday the jury found him guilty
without delay. Defendants counsel
claims the ordinance is Invalid be-
cause of alleged illegal discrimination
in favor of dance hall bars and alleged
insufficient publication. The court
will decide these points later. The
defendants claim that the persons in
his side room all night were waiting
for passenger ferry across the lake
was 2 .elodca by .he ferry ruco- ds sh;w
ing that passenger ferry cleared at
2:45 that morning. The conviction
was surprise to people who thought
it impossible to secure convictions in
excise cases and it may indicate a gra'
dual change in public opinion on sa-
loon regulation.
Monday afternoon the civil calendar
was called.
Louis Mater VS.. the Valders Lime
and Stone Co., a personal injury action,
was dismissed for want of prosecution.
Neither the plaintiff nor his attorneys
showed up.
Kiel VS.. Wagner was settled out of
court, AS was Klose VS.. Aluminium
Goods Co. and Holsen VS.. The Boiler
Works. Goeres VS.. Simon went over TO
January. The three Rockland drainage
cases were set at the foot of the calen-
dar.
Trippler Bros. VS.. Dobbert was sent
to referee because it involves quite
long account.
This clearing left only civil cases
for the jury besides the three drainage
cases. Among the cases listed is the
action of r. B. Montgomery, aMilwau-
kee negro editor, who is sueing the
Daily Herald for damages for an al
legged libel. The colored man visits
here soliciting funds periodically for
the benefit of his race, and the local
paper published what it claimed was a
part of his record.
A jury was drawn Monday afternoon
in Fricke VS.. A. B. Richardson, an ac-
ton arising out OF a cropping contract
on the defendants farm last summer.
The jury found for Fricke, but reduc-
ed the damages asked. The Herald
libel suit occupied all day Wednesday.
The unique sight of colored suitor
and a colored lawyer attracted consi-
derable attention. The case will go to
the jury today.