The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1918-07-20
DISTRICT COURT.
Numerous Criminal Proceedings and
Civil Suits Disposed Of.

| of district court convened on the
| 8th instant was continued this week,
sessions of the judicial body being
held Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday with Judge Philip Gilbert
presiding A record of the business
transacted is contained in the follow
| ing summary:
Civil Matters.
Pleasant cambridge VS.. Alice c..
cambridge; plaintiff granted abso-=
lutte divorce. \.
| Interstate Bank and Trust Go. vs..
Picard & Geismar, Ltd, ct ais; reas-
signed to July 20.
| Mrs. Camille Albarado VS.. C.khne;
fixed for July %.
| J. w. Stephenson vs.. Belle Helene
ICo-operative Sugar Co.; default en-
tered.
ed for July %.
L. Thibodaux VS.. L. Presley; fixed
for July %.
I G. E. Wermuth VS.. South LOUISE
ana Fair Association. reasslgned 70
July 25.
L. Schellaci VS.. John, Ferro; fixed
for July 26.
A. Adler & Co., Inc, VS.. w. j..
Roundtree Judgment for plaintiffs
for S272.45, with per cent interest
from Nov IT, 1914.
Western Union Telegraph Co. VS..
j. A. Dalferes ct ais; Judge FREQ. a;
. Middleton having been appointed
Judge ad hoe in this case and more
than nine months having elapsed
since his appointment without any
action being taken or the suit being
tried by him, it was ordered that the
case be transferred for trial to the
twenty-frst judicial district court,
sitting in and for the parish of her
Vile.
/ MeEn seitan Bank Il Kue vs.; p.
M. Loe.eay Receiver Sar ~ Helene
Planting Co. prayer and order for
oyer filed on motion of counsel for
plaintiffs.
|. Minerva Wright VS.. Milly Lewis;
defendant ordered to file in court be-
fore July % an accounting in full OF
the sum of $1021 belonging to the
estate of Ann King, of which she was
put in possession by an ex parte
/ Judgment Of district court Sept. 22,
1917.
4 Peter BARLEY VS.. Catherine Eos
ter; default entefed.
Mrs. j. E. Walker VS.. Louisiana
Railway and Navigation Co.; Judg,,
|ment for plaintiff for $68, with legal
interest from judicial demand until
paid
. .. C. 5Webre, Receiver, vs.. Adolphe
i Natter. Judgment for defendant.
Edward Wheeler VS.. Ethel Turner;
plaintiff granted absolute divorce: !,
A. Patorno & Sons VS.. Domlnlck
i Casso, tried and dismissed as IN case
of non-suit. !
Criminal Matters.
/ Dewey Gonzales, carnal knoWl-
i edge; pleaded not guilty and waived
trial by jury case fixed for July 20;
bond, $500.
i Agnes Williams, disturbing the
peace: pleaded not guilty, and case
4 fixed for July " bond, SIS.
4 Louis York, carnal knowledge;
nolle pressed.
i John suarez disturbing peace
4 able assembly reassigned. to July y.
Mat IN ilson, assault md 81 battery;
j pIeaded guilty az ten a ays.ss,sz
PUN sslrlit TIL sss II with mt ent to
4 rape continued indef itely Sheriff
i ordered to discharge accused and
j cancel his bond
Dan Harris, assault and battery;
$Inolle pressed BY district attorney, Tor :
1 the reason that since the fixing OF
i 1.-The case for trial accused has been
j called into the service Of the United
i States army,
Claud and Albert Thompson, dis
Iturbing a peaceabIe assembly; after
lpartially tried, case as to Albert
i Thompson dismissed. Upon all the
Testimony being adduced, verdict
of guilty was found against Claud
tThompson, who was sentenced to pay
la fine of $50 and be confined in jail
!. for ten days, with ten days addition
Ial Imprisonment. IN default OF pay
iment Of fine.
i Informations charging assault and
4 battery were filed by District At
i torney Guion against Robert Johnson
land More Ross. Both of the accused
pleaded guilty upon arraignment and
. were fined SO and Sis, respectively,
with the alternative of spending ten
/ days each in the parish lookup. The
indictment pending against Johnson,
for carrying concealed weapon.
was dismissed.
/ Joe Allen, indicted for murder, en-
tered plea Of guilty without capital
4 punishment, which was accepted by
j the state. The crime with which the
prisoner is charged was the killing
of his paramour, Edna Bernard, at
the home of the woman in this city,
the night of June 90: Allen was
sent tneagep Pike NJ los 80 with a
detachpamv'1o negro ss~screnen from
Ascension parish, and on June 25
took French leave of the camp and
set out for Donaldsonville, arriving
here the following day. Three days
later, following a violent quarrel
with his paramount, he shot and killed
her, claiming that she had DESTROYED
his uniform by burning it and thus
made it impossible for him to return
to camp without suffering grave con-
sequences.
/ Court adjourned to Tuesday morn
ing, July %, at 10 o'clock.
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