Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24
Names of Six men Withheld
Pending Arrest-Negro First
to Be Sentenced on Riot
Charge-Gets 80 Days.
THREE COURTS WILL
HEAR CRIMINAL CASES
Fourth May Be Added Later
Because of Large Docket
Judges Redick, Day and
Sears Will Preside at Trials.

Nine more men and boys were in
dieted yesterday by the grand jury
on charges of complicity in the
court house riots of September
2S. Names of six of these were not
given out because they are not un-
der arrest. The other three are:
Patrick Mcmahon, 81 years old.
married. $3.50 South Thirty-second
street, unlawful assemblage and
rioting.
Lloyd Allen, 18, Seventeenth and
Cass streets, unlawful assemblage
and rioting.
Frank Johnson. alias Frank Du-
mont, 20, Des Moines, Ia, sales
man, grand larceny and receiving
stolen property. Johnson is charged
with stealing goods from the store
of Abe Marcus, 1122 Douglas street,
the night of the riot.
Negro Pleads Guiltq.
The first man to plead guilty to
riot indictment was sentenced yes
terday afternoon by District Judge
Redick to so days in Jail. He is
Lester Price, negro, 2226 Seward
street. charged with carrying con-
cealed weapons. Price escaped from
mob that attacked him on street
car the night, of the riot. Judge
Redick ordered his sentence to date
from the time of his arrest Sep
ten1ber 2o.
Operate Three Courts.
Presiding Judge Redick of the
district court. yesterday issued an
order which will put three courts in
to simultaneous operation beginning
next Monday, for the trial Of al
legged rioters and other criminal
cases.
The criminal docket was unusually
crowded with scores Of prisoners
waiting in the county jail. With the
addition Of the men indicted by the
grand jury for completely in the
riots of September %, an unpre-
cedented amount of work is await
ing the criminal courts.
District Judges Redick, Day and
Sears will preside over criminal
courts in court rooms Nos. 5, and
2. The regular large criminal court
room, No. l, is being occupied tenn
porarily by the county treasurer's
Office. w
Unprecedented Occasion.
Civil cases which require juries,
will be heard in court rooms Nos.
2 and 4. The equity cases, which
are usually heard in court room
No. 7, will be heard by Judge
Wakeleyt in the room which was
formerly the judges chamber.
Usually there is only one criminal
court in operation. Never before
in this county have three criminal
courts been running at the same
time. 1t is possible, Judge Day
said, that a fourth will be put to
work
A general call for the calendar
on civil cases will be heard in court
room No. 8, next Saturday morn
ing.
Weber Out Under Bail.
Leonard Paul Weber, former
World-Herald employe, indicted by
the grand jury Tuesday ona charge
of carrying concealed weapons. was
released under $3.50 bail yesterday
by Judge Redick to await trial
An indictment was returned
against ]. w. Siegel, charging him
with receiving stolen property on
October IL. He was released un-
der $500 bond.
Four boys who have been held in
the county jail for investigation in
connection with the rioting, were
released yesterday BY order Of the
grand jury, no indictments being
found against them. They were
Ralph Johnson, II years old, 2sl8
Capitol avenue; Henry Heise, u
years old. 1920 Emmett street, and
James Mitch, Is years old. 23l7
Harney street and Elmer Refen-
burg, l6 years old, S02 South Thir-
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