The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-12-24
Nuttmann Bound Over to Dis
trict Court at Preliminary
Hearing This Week.
DEEP FEELING SHOWN
Defendant Charged With Steal
ing Six Head of Calves
From Sam Shaw.

The preliminary hearing OF John Mutt
man. of Keuterville, on q charge OF
grand larceny, occupied Justice Gar
cts court all day Monday ana part Of
Tuesday this week, and drew to the
county seat q large representation Of
citizens from the extreme northwest
section of the county. who were here
either as witnesses or as interested
parties in the prosecution or defense.
In this case John huffman is charged
by Sam Shaw. the complaining wit
ness. with having taken sometime last
fall six head Of calves belonging to
himself and son Fred, and sequester-
ed them In his pasture In a remote
part of the Salmon river grazing coun-
try; that the ear markings of the
Shaws had been changed to conform
largely to those used by huffman, and
that the intention ON the part Of Mutt
man was to appropriate the calves to
his own use and ownership.
In substantiation OF this claim the
state. represented by County Proset utor
Hattabaugh and Clay McNamee. OF
Lewiston, the latter employed by the
stockmen as assistant counsel, placed
upon the witness stand seven Witness
es in the order named, w. s. Shaw.
Hotke. Ed Thyering, Lonnie Bales and
Carl Flynn.
The case as set forth by Sam Shaw,
the complaining witness. and largely
corroborated by the others, was that he
and his son Fred. who ranged their
cattle on the south side OF Cottonwood
Butte, missed six head OF cows with
calves at their sides about the middle
OF November, that they hunted for and
found four of the cows without their
calves and pretty we'll dried up in a
pasture next to Henry Nuttman's,
brother of the defendant, but did not
get any trace of the other two cows
and the calves. Two weeks later Fred
| Shaw, Lee Lane, Lonnie Bales, Joe En-
neking and Jim Johnson located the
six calves in John Nuttmans pasture,
with the ear marks changed from the
Shaw ear markings which is a cror off
of one ear and an underbit and slit
in the other to that of Nuttman's
which is a heavy crop off of both ears.
They at once repaired to the Shaw
ranch and Sam Shaw and Carl Flynn
drove five of the cows up to Frank
Hotkes ranch near the huffman pas
ture, while the others went to the
pasture and drove five of the Shaw
calves and, through a mistake. one OF
Nuttman's calves, over to where the
cows were held The witnesses testi-
fled that the calves all went to their
mothers and took UP with them, one
of them sucking the mother at once.
The next morning John huffman rode
over on a we'll tagged horse and stated
that his hired hand had seen some
parties driving stock out of his pas
ture the evening before and that he
had ridden down two horses that morn
ing looking for them. Sam Shaw told
him that they had found six head OF
his calves in his (Nuttmans) pasture
the day before, and had later driven
five of them out, being unable to
find the sixth one. He asked him
II he would like to see the calves,
and after examining them, huffman
said: Didn't get the underbit; yes
by cd. they did" Later Henry Mutt
mann came over, and after John had
told him Shaws calves had been found
in his pasture and taken out by the
men present, Henry asked him: what
did you change Shaw's ear marks forr'
To which John replied: II didn't
change them"
Henry Hopke testified that he and
; his wife while returning from a visit
TO their daughters. met John Mutt
mann and Merle Kohl driving bunch
of cattle toward Henry Nuttmann's
+, place on the evening of Nov. 3, In
. which there was two of Hopke's and
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