Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-12-02
AN UNUSUAL CASE
Supreme Court Is Called Upon
to Render Decision in Matter
NO SIMILAR CASE RECORDED
Habeas Corpus Filed In the Supreme
Court to Restrain District Court
from Trying Alleged Robber
and Murderer.


injunction to restrain the Woodbury.
District court from placing Charles
Ford on trial on charge of bank rob-
berry, pending the decision OF the SUI
preme court in habeas corpus case
filed in behalf of Ford.
Ford, through his attorney, w. l..
Harding, is striving to gain his liber-
ty. He is confined In the Woodbury.
county Jail charged with bank rob-
berry and murder 1t is alleged that
Ford is the leader Of a gang OF gun
men. The robbery OF the Greenville
bank in which $500 was taken from
the cashier is one of the crimes charg-
ed to the gang. The murder of Roy
Morley, a member of the gang. oc-
CURED the day after the bank robbery
in a quarrel over the division OF the
spoils, it is charged.
In the Woodbury. District court the
trial OF Ford on charge of bank rob-
berry was assigned ahead of the MUIR
der case. The court refused to admit
Ford to bail. Lieutenant Governor
Harding appealed to the Supreme
court for an order to the District court
to permit Ford his liberty pending
trial. He also asked the injunction to
hold up the trial on the robbery
charge.
The effect OF the order of the Su.
preme court Is to prevent the Wood
bury District court from proceeding
until receiving further instructions
from the high court.
No case Of this kind had ever come
before the Iowa court. and as far as
the attorneys were able to find, no
case having the same issues had ever
been before any court in the United
States.
Want to Abandon Railroad.
State officials served with notice
that the receiver for the Chicago, Ana
mosa & Northern, one OF the older
roads OF the state, has asked the fed
eral court for permission to abandon
the road.
Judge Reed OF the United States
federal court for the northern divi-
sion, has assigned Dec. as the date
for the hearing on the abandonment
application.
The Chicago. Anamosa & Northern
runs from Anamosa, in Jones county.
to Quasqueton In Buchanan county, a
distance OF fifty miles.
The state officials believe that the
line can be made to pay. The people
along the line are spiritedly object
ing to suspension OF service.
Iowa viii Soon Be Dry.
With Jan. /, 1916, the time when
saloons will have ceased to legally ex-
list in Iowa and when the manufacture
Of intoxicating liquors in the state
will be forbidden. but little more
than a month away, there is to be
heard scarcely as much about the
matter as was heard a few years ago
when the mulct law, which imposed
what was then thought to be drastic
regulations. was about to become ef-
fective.
Special Teachers Examinations.
For the second time since the twelve
weeks normal training requirement
for teachers went into effect July /
Of this year, State Superintendent De-
zoe has been forced to let down the
bars in order to get sufficient sup
ply Of instructors for the rural
schools.
Special examinations were held In
nearly fifty counties in which ap-
plicants were admitted regardless of
their normal school training All coun-
ty superintendent in the state we're
granted permission to hold the tests.
provided they were short of teachers.
Taxes Must BE Paid.
Complaint was recently made to
the state executive council that the
board OF supervisors OF numerous
counties OF the state have given tax
exemptions to factories, an induce
ment to secure the location of such
institutions: The executive council
thereupon instructed the attorney gen.
erals office to proceed to collect from
suchcounties the states four mills on
all such properties and for all of the
years that such exemptions have been
allowed.
New Coal Veins Discovered.
Hardin county may again figure in
the state as coal producing county.
Ed Coyne of Ottumwa reported to the
state mining department that coal
field has been discovered near the FL
dora State reformatory. The vein
varies from 3h to Az feet in thick
ness. There are indications that the
state property at Eldora Is underlaid
with coal
Actual Value Of stock Killed.
w. B. Barney and Charles F. Curtiss
held conference with DIR. ]. !. Glib
son, state veterinarian. They asked
DR.. Gibson to adopt a policy that the
state pay actual value for cattle killed.
In the first outbreak OF the foot and
mouth disease In this state no pure
bred stock took the disease; there
fore the question of the prices to be
paid was not determined at that time.
DR.. Gibson told his visitors that as
far as he has investigated there is no
law determining what Iowa should do
with regard to pure bred stock.
New Law Explained.
BY means OF law enacted by the
last general assembly 1t is possible for
all Iowa cities to establish adequate
garbage disposal systems. says LATE
Higgins: sanitary engineer OF the
state board OF health.
The mill tax authorized to be lev.
led to establish garbage disposal
plants may be used for the construc-
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