Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-23
CIRCUIT Court IN
OPENING SESSIONS
February Term Began Grind
Last Monday Morning.
Cases to Date Disposed of Few, But
Prospects of Interesting Mat
tiers Before End of Week.
Monday, First Day.

Nothing OF particular Interest
transpired Monday, the time being
spent principally in setting dates for
trial for various cases and other pre-
liminaries usually gone through with
on first court day.
Divorces were granted in the case
of Laura HutchcrOft VS. John Hutch
croft, and Josephine Hamilton VS. Ar
tie Hamilton. The first is a Platte
Vile case and the second from the
BOscObel neighbOrhOod.
The naturalization cases were
brought up Monday and acted upon.
Frank Joseph Herche of st. Louis fall
ed to appear again and his case was
dismissed. The case of Joseph Drees-
ems of LOuisburg was dismissed on ac-
count Of a defective declaration. The
cases of Theodore Seimann and Ber-
nard Doyle were continued, the first
on account of insufficient knowledge
concerning the government, and the
latter on account of Mr.. Doyle not
appearing. John Jacob Mueller, John
Tresidder, William LOry and James
LOry were az admitted to citizenship.
The applicants all hail from various
parts of the county.
The case of the State VS. Thomas
Vincent, charged with burglary, was
set for trial on Thursday at 1:30.
Tuesday, Second Day.
The court heard the pleas of six
prisoners confined in the county jail.
Anthony L. Regal, charged with bur
glary, pleaded guilty and will be SEN
fenced The penalty in his case is not
more than six months in the county
jail or a fine not exceeding 800.
John Bishop, charged with selling
liquor in a no license territory, plead
ed guilty The penalty which may be
inflicted is from three months to a
year in the county Jail or fine OF 5000.
John Knox, charged with adultery,
the correspondent being Martha z.
COlIeran, a married woman, pleaded
guilty. Knox, whoi said to be single,
came to wisconsin about a year ago
bringing Mrs. Colleran with him.
They were employed for awhile on the
Harry TOrnOwsBi farm near Blooming
ton and last fall went to the George
Carter farm near Pa5cn Grove, where
they lived together as husband and
wife
Mrs. Colleran's husband, who is said
to live in Minnesota, heard of their
whereabouts and filed the complaint
Knox may receive a prison sentence
or a fine of from 5000 to $1,000. 1t is
said that Mrs. COlleran has gone back
to her husband
Ralph Teasdale of Cassville, pleaded
guilty and may be sentenced to not
more than a year in the county jail
or a fine of not to exceed $500.
Edward Johnson, a vagrant sent in
from BOscObel, andl alter charged with
having assisted Harry Williams in his
attempt to break Jail, pleaded not
guilty and S. H. Taylor was appointed
to defend him.
James H. Braunberg, charged with
having robbed the Braun Bros. saloon
in Cassville, last December, pleaded
not guilty and r. A. Watkins was APP
pointed to defend him.
Warner Stanton of Harrison, Fred
Slender of Smelser and VIM. III. Thorn
as of Hazel Green, petit jurors, were
excused for cause Frank Wollen-
horst of Paris, was excused on ac-
count of illness.
A case not appearing on the calen-
dar was argued Monday afternoon and
Tuesday morning. Three years ago
Jesse and Myrtle WOolever of Craw-
ford county. were divorced and the
oldest of the two children, a girl
named Ruby, was given into the GUS
tody of her grandparents, named
Shreve who lived at BoscObel. Both
WOolever and his former wife were
married, the latter becoming the wife
OF John Riley, of MarshalltOwn, Ia.
Both have had children since that time
by their second marriages. WOolever,
through his attorney, J. ]. Blaine, re-
uuested complete custody of the older
child who is now il her thirteenth
year.
The court, after carefully consider
ing the case from all angles, ruled that
the child should be placed in the faith
er's custody, spending part of her
time with her grandmother. Mrs.
Shreve. Mrs. Riley will see the little
girl at intervals as the child may de-
sire to visit with her in Iowa.