The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-07-14
Grand JURY Of
CIRCUIT COURT
COMPLETE WORK
N ;~Na ~ -f:s
Nine Indictments Are Found in
Which All Of the Principals
Are Negroes.
-- y.tTHes
THREE SENTENCED 10
PONTIAC REFORM SCHOOL
Petit Jury Will be Convened This
Morning to Try Criminal Gases
Attorneys Appointed. =.

Nine indictments were returned
yesterday afternoon et o'clock In
Circuit Court by the grand Jury.
which met at 10 O'Clock in the
morning. When the foreman. Of the
Jury, George Hodges of Sandusky.
turned the paper over to Judge But
Ter. the judge eompiimented. the
jurymen on the quick disposal OF
the business 1t had before II. Hre
stated that in some instances THE
Jury had taken several days time
In accomplishing the result that
, this jury did in q few hours. There
were only seventeen men on the
Jury which was originally named as
twenty-three; but there were sum-
cient to perform the work legally.
The weather being hot and uncom-
Portable and the fact that the ex-
animation of the county Jail and
he scoring of 1t by grand juries the
past twenty years. decided the mem
bers that 1t was useless to make a
report at this term.
when the Jury had been dis
charged and Judge Butler told
how to set Its pay the Judge ordered
the prisoners who had been indicted
to be brought into court. The
balliff John O'Donnell. brought in
the prisoners. all of them negroes.
most of them young.
As they answered 10 their names
each came before the judge and was
questioned By aisn as to whether he
wished to plead guilty or not. Those
who plead guilty were sentenced
and those who wanted TO stand trial,
| where they had no attorney the
Judge appointed one and set the
date of trial.
| Willie Lewis acknowledged, to
having shot Joe Osier an old and air-
offensive darkey 10 the back, using
a double barrel shot gun loaded
with number 1 shot The old man
was in court to show that the shot
was still in his back. No real reason
was given for tho shooting which
! was done about three weeks ago on
farm near Willard. The old negro
said the boy did it just to show that
he was "a bad nigset." Lewis who
s IS years old was sentenced to the
reform school at Pontiac.
Earl stroud indicted for an assault
with intent to kill Amandus Gray
wanted TO stand trial and stated
that he had engaged NJ. J. o'Shea to
defend him. His trial was set for
Wednesday at o'clock.
William Douglas indicted for an
assault with intent to Kill Ira Doug
as. using a hatchet for the purpose.
plead not guilty and Attorney Al
tin Margrave was appointed to de.
tend him. Trial set for Tuesday,
1870 y. m.
John Slayton plead not guilty n
charge Of burglary and larceny:
breaking into an Iron Mountain car
and stealing merchandise. His trial
was set for this morning at IN
o'clock. Harry Hood was appointed
to defend him.
Henry Britt charged with steal
ing a pair of shoes and clothing
from a freight car, plead guilty and
was sentenced TO the reform school
at Pontiac.
Cephus Jones stole COW and sd-
mitted it. The COW was the prop
erty of Kilgo of the Drainage Dis
trict. He was about to sell the COW
to the Bucher Packing plant when
he was naboed. Jones worked for
Kilgo. He was sent to Pontiac re-
formatory.
Robert Craig, stealing watch and
money from Albert Young; plead
not guilty. Attorney Walter b.
warder was appointed to defend
him.
other indictments were for u. F.
Roberts charged with carrying con-
ceaied weapon: Peter zabolle.
charged with assault with a deadly
weapon. Zaholle is a Filipino.
travelling with the carnival company
which held forth last week a Thir-
ey-eighth and Washington enne
He shot young white madSln the
; leg. The mans name Is virs Pear