Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-03-09
TWO ARE GIVEN
FIVE YEAR Terms
Sadie Waites and Alya Shel.
ley Are Sent to Reforma-
tory at Anamosa
$4,000 DAMAGE
CASE NEARS FINISH
Jury Will Probably Have the
Bennett Warner Case By \
This Evening

Sadie Waites waS>.sentenced to a,
term not exceeding five years at the
state reformatory at Anamosa on
statutory charge and Alva Shelld
was given the same sentence at An
mosa for breaking and entering I'll
Daiidfhg by Judge d. M. AndersoH
district court this morning. Sh/ n
Cremer will take the prisoners tg
reformatory Tuesday. MotionSr eor
new trials had been filed by the de.
PENDANTS counsel In both cases but
these We're overruled by the court
Resume Damage Suit.
The action entitled Robert Bennett
ct al vs.. j. L. Warner ct al, which
was begun Tuesday morning, was re-
sumed today and will probably be
ready for the jury late this afternoon.
This Is case in which the plaintiff,
who is a youth nineteen years old,
seeks the sum OF $4,000 as damages
for personal injuries which he alleges
he received while working for the de-
fendant as farm hand
Tuesday morning is the time set
for the James Crane case. The defend
ant was indicted by the grand jury
upon the charge Of larceny by en-
bezzlement. It is alleged that he took
$308 belonging to the miners local
union at Bidwell, of which organixa-
tion he was serving as the secretary.
The case was called for trial several
weeks ago but postponed until now on
account of two Of the witnesses being
quarantined.
Case is Reinstated.
The cOuEt--- has ordered the rein
statement of the case entitled United
planning Mill Co. vs. Bartlett & Killing.
Two divorce DEGREES were signed Sat
urday in the cases of Margaret Phil
lips VS.. Guy Phillips and Ella Maloney
VS.. Fred Maloney. An order in the
estate of Roy Bartholomew fixes the
time for hearing the petition to ap-
point an administrator Another has
been signed in the guardianship Of
Timothy Keefe. The final report has
been approved. the executor discharg.
ed and the bond exonerated in the es-
tate of Elizabeth Sackett. In the case
of Thomas jacobson VS.. Peter Angus
tine, which was heard Saturday before
Judge Seneca Cornell. the application
to set aside the judgment is granted
and the case is to stand In the calen-
dar for trial in it's order the same as
though the judgement Of the Justice
of the peace had not been affirmed.
More Petitions Filed.
Several more petitions were filed to-
day for trial during the March term 4:
Among them is one entitled Jerry
Orndorff and Ollie Orndorff VS.. Daisy
Bingham in which the plaintiffs ask
that the court make decree to show
payment of mortgages and in the ad-
vent OF the defendants failure to can
Gel them they be given Judgment Tor
$50 and costs. Another, entitled Daisy
Bingham VS. Jerry and Ollie Orndorh,
seeks the foreclosure Of mortgage
A petition of partition, which has been
filed, is entitled Noble E. Carpenter ct
al VS.. Eva H. Carpenter. Clara j. Nos
ler VS.. Henry c. Nosler and Fred T..
Bissell, as auditor Of Wapello county.
is the title of petition filed in which
the plaintiff asks for the sum OF $965
which she claims is due her on judg-
ment rendered in the Wapello county
court in her favor against the defend
ant. H. c. Nosler, on April 2, 1900.
She further asks that the Judgment be
made lien on the earnings Of the de-
fendant and that the court order the
auditor to apply the salary OF u. g.
Nosler, as 1t is due from time to time,
on the satisfaction Of the Judgment.