The Dickinson press., 1916-01-01
MORTON co... GETS
BROWN TRIAL /.
JURIES EXCUSED ON WEDNEs-
DAY. HAD A BUSY WEEK,
CLEANING UP MANY I'M
PORTANT CASES.

Gladstone Case Last For the Jury.
Aronhault Found Guilty of
Assault. ...,. -,.
Alarge amount of court work was
finished during the few days before
and following Christmas, the jurors
getting very little time out side of
the court room. The John Brown
case, however, did not come up, the
attorneys, T. F., Murtha and j. w.
Sturgeon, filing a motion of prejudice,
known as the "doubleheader proceed
ure," which left no alternative with
Judge w. c. Crawford but to send
the case to another county. The
trial will be held in Mandan prob
ably during the January term of Nor
ton county court. ~.
Mrs. Brown is suing for a divorce
and pending this action the court al
lows her alimony and $175 for pur-
poses Of defraying court expenses.
W. +. Burnett is her attorney, Murtha
& Sturgeon for defendant.
There are number of court cases
which will be tried during the COM
ing few weeks. On the 4th Judge
Crawford will be in. Medora but it
is not. expected that the work will
keep him more than day or two.
A case of special interest to Glad
stone people was the trial of. three
young men on the charge Of assault
with a dangerous weapon with intent
to do bodily harm. Harry Aronhault,
Ben Johnson and Ben A. Goding were
the persons accused, Franz Bayer
complaining witness: It was charged
that on Christmas eve, the men ac-
cused, were drinking heavily and
creating a disturbance on the streets
and that Mr.. Bayer was brutally as
saulted. Defendant Ii appeared in
court with a bandaged head, showing
that he had received serious injur-
les. The state placed in evidence. a
hardwood club which it was charged
Aronhault used in assaulting Franz
4 Bayer. Among the witnesses called
were Franz and Matt Bayer and Geo.
Brown. The jury found Aronhanlt
guilty as charged, returning a verdict
Of not guilty for Johnson and God:
ing. s5s d .t 't s$5 ~
On Thursday the attorneys for
Aronhault made a new motion and
the passing of sentence was deferred
until January 8. II. A. Burgeson
prosecuted while Murtha & Sturgeon
defended. 81 5sas 4
Phillip Bender of Antelope pleaded
guilty to the charge of selling mort
gagged grain and received a sentence
Of one year in the 5penitentiary.
,,1~e, ~sool
behavior. The party lives in the To-
cality of Antelope and has a large
family. He was represented in court
by Attorney Sc. Halpern of Hebron.
An examination was held before Just
ice A. P. Folsom early in the week,
defendant having been arrested on a
warrant issued out of the states at
torney's office as announced in these
columns last week. Herman Hollst
and G. r. Brainerd of Hebron were
interested parties in the grain which
had been unlawfully sold by defend
ant to the Occident Elevator Co. at
Antelope.
The suits against the Des Moines
Hail & Cyclone ms. Co. are still un-
settled. As previously stated, the
company is making an attempt to get
hold of their SIS, 900 in securities de-
posted with the state. The company
is evidently trying to get away from
paying the farmers the so per cent
unsettled losses. Attorneys J. P.
Cain, C. III. Starke and III. J. Blanch-
ard have many Of the loss claims for
farmers and expected to be able to
collect. 5E
e Mrs. Olson, formerly Of Mime
waukan, was given divorce in court
here the past week. The lady expects
to homestead in the country north
west. M. Il. Mcbride appeared in be
half Of Mrs. Olson.
The Anton Meckler case was tried
Monday afternoon and given to the
iuary early the following morning
Anton is the eight-year-old son OF
az H. Meckler and was in some way
thrown from the fender Of the Frank
4 Never auto on the 18th Of May, 1915
resulting in serious bruises about the
face. Fortunately the accident die
not result in any permanent injury, al
was shown by the evidence intro.
duced. The boy was laid up for u
few days at his home \ in Dickinson
but according to the evidence give1
doctor was called but twice and tht
strange thing to the jurors was ,,th,
& fact that the attending physician wa!
not called to testify regarding th,
+ condition in which he found Anton
The plaintiff alleged that defendan
was running his auto at a high rat,
i n sneed and that, he pushed the DO.
\. and caused him to fall violently t.
the ground. This evidence, however
u y was contradicted.a stJnco ontradicted tes
timony was introduced to show tha
the doctor bill, including medicine
III was only S.. A verdict was returne'
for defendant. Casey 81 Burges01
appeared for plaintiff and lH..$ G. qBerr.
for defendant. ssl lsa sgss5
The jury III the Theo. Carlson VI
Carol Podolauchnk case returned
verdict of $50 ii favor of plaintiff