Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1916-03-10
TWO MEN CLAIM
SAME THREE PIGS
oue Charged With Larceny, the
Other With Carrying Concealed
WeapOns-Court Business
BoomS

Justice Geo. Henry's court in the
Flatiron building was the scene OF
unusual activity this week as a re-
sult of we'll defined argument be-
tween ]. w. Hampton, Whelan
farmer, and j. E. Sherfey, Pull
man blacksmith, over the ownership
4 of three aristocratic pigs, and, while
i the main court event is not sched-
Med until tomorrow the court is al
ready $25 better off as result of
the prelimnaries, and Judge Henry
is holding in trust a wicked looking
hut valuable Colts automatic, pend
ing a more peaceable frame of mind
by its owner.
The fireworks started when Sher
q few. who recently sold his farm
equipment and moved to Pullm an,
purchasing the Pearson & Leuty
blacksmith shop, journeyed to the
farm home of Hampton, his former
4 neighbor, last Monday afternoon,
4 loaded three pigs which he claimed
as his own into his wagon and drove
back to Pullman. He was closely
8 followed by the irate Hampton, who
also claimed the porkers, and who
81 informed against Sherfey, alleging
Il larceny, and demanded the issuance
of warrant for the latter's arrest
n The warrant was forthcoming, but
upon the assumption that the case
should be civil one, involving only
the ownership of the pigs, service of
the papers was delayed pending ad-
1 vice from the prosecuting attorneys
j office.
The public prosecutor ruled that
the case should go to trial and Sher-
fey will be given a preliminary hear
ing tomorrow in Judge Henry S
court.
In the meantime the feeling be-
IA WYNN IilC u cJ w lllIt u6lSHDOIS was
d at fever heat, and an unnatural
bulge in the side pocket of Hampton
q aroused the suspicious of police Of
Ulcers, with the result that the in
formant in the first case was i'm
mediately made the defendant in a
second, in which carrying concealed
weapons was charged. Upon a plea
OF guilty, Hampton was fined $40
and costs, amounting to $25, which
d ne paid. The defendant is said to
nave stated that he was carrying the
q weapon because he was fearful of
trouble with Sherfey, whom he said
was larger man than himself.
i A mild furore was occasioned in
tne court room when Chief of Police
wagner, upon being assured that
lne only shells in the weapon were
III the magazine, which had been re-
moved pressed the trigger and sent
ouliet crashing into the wall.
Both the parties to the contro-
= 'ersy are we'll known and the case is
attracting unusual attention. The
STORY told by Sherfey, which he will
PROBABLY reiterate on the stand to-
norFoW' Is that at the time he sold
MS farm requisites he retained a
thoroughbred SOW. which was soon
" harrow, and intrusted her to the
'"ie OF Hampton, leaving feed and
entering into verbal agreement
WIN the latter that each would take
one-nair the litter, SheYfey to retain
'itle to the SOW.
no states that recently he went
~ 'ne SOW and his share of the
t out that Hampton permitted
I'M 10 take only the mother. claim
the entire litter himself. sber-
0ousht legal counsel in the mat
vi and states that he was advised
mat sna' II the pigs were his property
,Au ne could get them without I'M
ouble, he would be within his
lents In taking them. HAMPTON de-
=. S that sherfey had any right TO
ne pigs and claims that the black
too,. committed larceny when he
took them.
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