Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-01
CRIMINAL TRIALS
QUICKLY DISPOSED OF
Last Week Saw Action On Sew
eral Important Matters.
BeetOwn BOOtlegger Gets Heavy Fine
Steer Case For PIaintiff-DiS-
agreement On Vincent Case.
Tuesday Second Day.

John Bishop of Beetown, received
his sentence Tuesday afternoon. The
district attorney had recommended a
prison sentence in his case. The court
assessed fine of $3.50 and costs,
amounting to $218.38, on the first
count Sentence was suspended on
the second count.
Wednesday, Third Day.
anderson VS.. CarmOdy ct aD
Wednesday afternoon was taken up
with the case of Anderson VS. CarmOdy
brothers of Mt. Hope. In this case
the plaintiff alleged that the defend
ants had removed steer from his
pasture last October Sth claiming that
! it was stray from their own herd.
Chris Anderson was the first to take
the stand and he testified that he had
raised the steer from infancy and
was positive as to it's markings and
characteristics. On the day of the re-
moval he was away from home and the
CarmOdy brothers came to his place
during his absence. He stated that
the steer had attempted to run back
to join the other cattle on his farm
while the CarmOdy brothers were
driving it home. Cora and Minnie Al
derson, daughters of the plaintiff, took
The stand and gave evidence cOrrCDOr-
ati1e of their fathers. Miss Minnie
Anderson said that John Carmody had
come to their farm and told her and
her mother that one of his steers was
missing and that the animal was i'll
the Anderson pasture. Mr.. Carm0dy
was told not to take the steer unless
he was positive it belonged to him.
Douglas Goodrich, a farm hand en-
ployed by Anderson from last April
up to fall, testified that the description
of the steer taken, was similar to one
he had seen in the herd
w. B. Dyer, deputy sheriff, testified
that the steer he had replevined on
October 9Th and taken to Jim Car
mody's for safekeeping while the mat
ter was being threshed out in the
courts, was not the same steer he had
brought back to Alderson's when the
verdict of the lower court gave the
animal in question back to the plain
tiff
Mrs Nora Carmody wife Of Jim
Carmody, took the stand and stated,
under oath, that she was positive that
the steer the deputy sheriff had
brought to their home was the same.
animal he had taken away. That.
there were no other steers on the
place. Mrs Carmody was very snap
Ply witness Jim CarmOdy testified
under oath that he had examined the
steer for vaccination marks and found
same. That when the sheriff brought
the animal back from AldersOn's on
October 18th on the latter's refusal
to accept it as his steer, he had again
examined it and was positive that it.
was the same steer brought to his
place originally.
James TOrmey and Miss Belscamp-
er were put on the stand by the de-
tense and gave testimony in their ia
vOr. G. j. CarmOdy or Jim" took the
stand and testified that he and his
brothers had adjoining farms on the
Mt. Ida to Mt. Hope road. That he.
had kept the steer after it had been
replevined on October 8, until Octo-
Der IS. That he had received SIS for
boarding it from the sheriff. That it
was a red steer and that no change
had been made of any sort while the
animal was on his place. He and his
brothers were all excellent Witnesses
Dr. Davis and Dr. Kennedy, veter-
inaries, gave testimony regarding the
vaccination marks on the steer. DAN
lei CarmOdy testified that the steer re-
plevined by the sheriff was the same
steer taken back to AIderson's later.
Said that castratiOn, dehorning and
vaccination marks were similar to
those borne by other cattle in his
/ brothers herd
Thomas Carmody testified that he
4 had missed the steer about August
/ 25th and had searched for it for some
/ time Finally concluded that the steer
in AldersOn's herd was his steer. Had
removed it just as he would have re-
moved horse that had strayed into
neighbours pasture.
The case was given to the jury late
Thursday evening with the following
questions to answer:
Was the steer that the de-
PENDANTS drove away from the
cattle Of the plaintiff upon the
sixth day of October last, the
steer of the plaintiff, AlderSOn!
AnSWer-YES.
2-WaS the steer that the sher-
if took possession of under the
writ in this action and placed in
the custody of James CarmOdy
and took a receipt therefor from
him, the same steer that the Sher-
iff subsequently on October 18th,
took from James CarmOdy'S pos
session and gave to him a re-
ceipt therefor? AnsWer-NO.