The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-05-03
CARROLL STOPS
TRIAL TO PLEAD
GUILTY, is FINED
Morley Man Charged With
Felony Must Pay 500
and Costs of Trial.
NEGRO GETS 5 YEARS
FOR CHECK FORGERY
Pleads Guilty to Three Charges
OF Forgery koeppel
Fined $50 by Jury.

After hearing part of the evidence
the State offered against Arnold Car
roll, Of Morley, on trial in the Jack
son Circuit Court on a charge OF leav-
ing the scene of an accident, the at
! torneys of the defendant offered a
plea OF guilty in behalf Of their client
and Judge Kelly assessed Il fine of
500 and the costs against Carroll.
Six witnesses had been introduced by
the State, when a recess was taken
and the attorneys for the defendant
! began negotiations with Prosecuting
Attorney Caruthers.
Carroll was charged with having
| left The scene Of the accident in which
! y. J. Scgravcs. former city council
man Of the Cape, was badly injured
| thrce weeks ago. Il was alleged that
Carroll drove the car which struck Sc
graves wagon, knocking him fpom
| The seat out into the road. Segravcs
sustained Il fracture OF the left wrist
and i number of bruises and cuts If
the accident.
The witnesses who were heard yes
teTday afternoon were tie prosecuting
witness, Gordon Vowel, colored
man: lIaUde Wommac!l, and Sam
Midget, colorcd, and David Hartle ans!
!. +. Hagen. These testified that Car
roll struck Scgraves' wagon and did
not leave the machine after the *
/ cident, but drove on 10 his home near
Morley.
! Carroll was arrested three days ait
er the accident. At the preliminary
trial it was brought out that his at
torneys attempted to make the de
Tense that he left the place of the ac-
cidcnt under the impression that he
lad hurt a negro. This was cOrrob
GRATED by the testimony of several
witnesses FOR Tie State who swore
they heard Carroll later remark h
had hit negro on the Rock Levee
road The accident occurred early in
the evening on the Rock Leyee near
the old tol gate bridge.
4 second charge alleging that Car
roll was intoxicated when ne drove
the auto. WAS to have been brought
-agains. him, but the prosecuting al
toIney announced Yesterday that he
would drop this charge. He said he
did not believe he could furnish suf-
ficient evidence for 4 conviction on
this charge, The witnesses for the
State who were put on the stand yes
terjay could not swear as to his con-
dition OF the evening of the accident,
Prosecuting Attorney Caruthers de
clarcd, and for that reason he would
not press this charge.
Sam Pekins, colored youth, was
sentenced to i've years in the peniten-
tiary on his plea Of guilty to three
charges Of passing worthless checks.
The checks on which the warrants for
his arrest were issued were cashed by
N. Samuels, a merchant on Main
street. the A. Ray Smith Dry Goods
Co., and Wiz Nenninger, the butcher
in Haarig.
Additional charges were made
against the Young negro, but in these
cases no warrants were issued, and
therefore the eases We're not taken
up by the prosecuting attorney. Per-
kins has already served two years in
the State Reformatory for Boys. He
WIS released last May. He was ar
rested on description furnished the
police by number of merchants who
had been defrauded by the negro.
Perkins, it is alleged by the author
tiles is the man, who passed a series
Of worthless checks on merchants of
this city. He denied his guilt when ar
rested, and maintained he knew moth
ing about the checks. Several mer-
chants. however, identified him as the
man for whom they cashed the worth
less checks. His scheme was to pre-
sent a check for 96 or SIS and to pre-
sent it payment for small purchase
on Saturday evening.
at. (dnn't forret the nanlel are re-