The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
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Grand Jury Is Instructed to Look Into Destruction of Dipping Place in Polk County-Circuit Court Opens
 With a Large Docket.

The April term of the Polk Circuit court was convened late Monday af- ternoon. Judge James s. Steel having been unable to reach here sooner on account of illness. However, thirty minutes after his arrival the grand iury was empaneled, and he began his charge.
 The jurors for the term are: W. J. Lauck, Carl Henderson, Dooley Bar ton. Henry Cecil, c. H. Jett, jr., 0. c. E Kirby, Sim Lawrence, W. R. Lackey, Will Gordon, J. A. Mackey, H. E. Chambers, c. M. Edwards, Boss Dill beck, J. k. Joplin, R. s. Gam and E. EH. Butler. Prosecuting Attorney A. E ID. Dulaney selected w. J. Lauck as foreman, and c. s. Tankersley was appointed deputy sheriff to wait on the grand jury by Sheriff J. A. Thorn ton.
 Tom and John Marshall and Clar- ence Troup, held in the county jail on the charge of robbery, were given an opportunity to exercise their right of challenge, and were then remanded o the county jail.
 ( Judge Steel's charge to the grand Fjury, after defining crimes and crini- nals, covered the offenses that are nost likely to have been committed within the county, and dealt with wife Abandonment, arson, assault and bat fery, bigamy, bribery, carrying con- eealed weapons, cruelty to animals, 1isturbing religious worship, drunk eness, gaming, murder, malicious mis- <hief, perjury, profanity, Sabbath breaking, seduction and the violation bf the prohibitory law thru the sale of ! 1nedicated liquors. The laws relating to the protection of minors were giv- en especial attention by the court as Eas also the law relating to gaming and to Sabbath breaking On the mat 1er of the dynamiting the dipping xats, the court announced that he had Bead in the Gazette that some vats had been blown up in Polk county, and 5he jury was directed to look into this Bass of law violation with a'good deal 1f interest, suggesting that while the tpurt was not very favorable te the bw and. .reRule tiens, he. woufd Ssee bat it would be enforced.
 & The grand 5lry, after receiving the fharge, adjourned until o'clock Tuesday morning, when the active Xork of the term was taken up.
 
 Sheriff Thornton has appointed J.
 Williams of Hatfield as the deputy
 wait on the court. File deputies z<<eI the term are Shade Hilton, V. S.
 Ellsworth, ". E. Reed and W. E. Hungate.
 The first civil case tried at this Hrm of court was that of The Crutch- Held Lumber Company vs R. P. Har- ris and P s. Larrimore, which was an appeal from the court of s. H. Smith Md involved the value of cow and Fl If. The jury returned a verdict in 1aVor of the Crutchfield Lumber Com pany in the amount of s85. The jur- drs were II. F.. Gardy, ". A. Sandi- ffr, Holder Williams, Hamp Lofts, J. N Lambert, Eugene Wood, H. Gam,
 M Strawn, Harrison Thompson, s.
 Hines, S. l. Wood and Frank Numley- Attorneys Minor Pipkin Ahd W. Erickets appeared for the da- 3sndants and Attorneys J. I. Alley and H Norwood for the plaintiff
 Clarence Troupe plead guilty to the
 Hictment of grand larceny, and was
 ntenced to one year in the state re- e&@-li &- school. He broke into the depot M Vandervoort last December and xole S19 in money. He was in the fenpany of two other boys who were Yer arrested, tried by court martial W Camp Pike and sentenced to the Mllitary prison at Fort Leavenworth. VI the court martial young Troupe kks material witness, and this was tfged as mitigation of his sen-
 nce, leading the court to give him <ee minimum penalty. The lad in an- yer to question from the court ted that he was 19 years of age, W was thereupon sentenced to the
 nitentiary, but upon the statement
 his father that he was only 16, the ntence was changed to the reform 1Ehool.
 ohn and Tom Marshall, jointly in- 9Icted for grand larceny consisting of
 fering the Arch Smith home near soEe on January 2, and taking there nm clothing and shoes to the value
 S75, were each sentenced for one VT, the first named to the peniten-
 zry and the second to the reform
 Eool. The boys were born and rear <e ln Yell county, and claimed to have zene to this county in search of work.