The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-03-03
GRAND JURY
MDICTS FIFTY
H. C. Lehman Held in Two
Cases for Selling Imitation
Nuxated Iron.
TRUE BILL FOR CURTIS

The Hamilton county grand jury
reported fifty true bills and three no
true bills TO Judge S. d. McReyn-
olds in open court Wednesday at
noon after a day and half's session,
The jury then adjourned to meet
again April 5.
Among the important indictments
returned by the inquisitorial body
were two against II. c. Lehman, one
for forgery and the other for at
tempting to obtain money under false
pretenses. The charges against Leh-
man which resulted in his indictment
grew out of his alleged sale in this
city of an imitation of nuxated iron.
Lehman was recently arrested
when he attempted to sell 10 Ander-
son an order of what is claimed is
an imitation of the real medicine.
Mr., Anderson stated to the grand
jury Wednesday morning that the
Nuxated Iron company had offered
$1,000 reward to the person appre-
hending the man selling an imita-
tion of their article.
The indictments against Lehman
are long ones containing ( o al
pages. The labels on the REF s TX
ated iron package and the Z ;. ged
2 are
different when closely exam g all
clever. Lehman will be Aligned
at the next term of couf .SHe is
now out on bond. -
The grand jury also :: rned in
dictments against H. c. : tis, man
ager of the Terminal I < charging
him with running a dfso. erly house
aN nd 1f.aar III
in police court several times Of late
and on his last appearance before
Judge Fleming he was sent to Jail
for ten days for contempt of court.
1t is the charge of the state that
Curtis is conducting a meeting place
for men and women and not a hotel.
The jury also indicted G. II. Payne
for obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. Payne is charged with pass
ing worthless checks on a local tai
loring firm. f. l.. Thompson, who
was recently convicted in criminal
court on a charge of forgery, was
indicted again by the grand jury
Wednesday. Payne is charged with
Issuing fraudulent pay checks on the
Southern railroad and getting money
on them.
The full report returned by the
jury is as follows:
Warner Findley, failure to provide:
Andrew Scott, felonious assault; G. r
Payne, false pretense; II. c. Lehman.
forgery; John c. Parks, selling liquor;
John c. Parks, carrying pistol. VIII
Bonner, carrying pistol: Andrew Scott
assault and battery; c. Il. Johnson and
r. l.. Collins, burglary; Ernest Erik,
larceny; viii Knight, carrying pistol
John Parks felonious assault; w. H.
Elrod larceny; Earl Hardson larceny;
Henry Jackson, larceny; H. c. Helman
attempt to commit felony; II. L.
Thompson. larceny; While Jackson.
| criminal assault; John jenkins, bur-
glary; Charles Johnson, larceny: Jim
Martin q cases.. larceny; Marie Lively,
Nagrancy; John jenkins, burglary; Phil
| lip Hawkins g cases), false pretense /:
sam Farris, larceny; II. G. Curtis, sell
ing liquor; Zoe Chase, selling liquor:
Edward Bowling, transporting over
three gallons liquor; G. Bennett SELL
ing liquor; Bob Chavis. larceny; James
Hall and Lula Williams, lewdness; Jes-
sic Morris and Gilbert Edwards. lar
ceny; Odel Oliver felonious assault
e. l.. Thompson, forgery: will Crabtree
carrying pistol; w r, Crabtree, feloni-
Gus assault, public profanity; Joe
Ritchey, carrying pistol; Manuel Will
son, larceny; w, NJ. Fitzpatrick, lar
ceny; II. c. Curtis. running disorderly
house; Anna lda Wyche, felonious as
| sault: Albert Ragan, larceny; John
Rogers, larceny; Charles Powell va
grancy; Will Nicholson, selling liquor
No true bills: John c. Parks. felon-
ious assault: John l.. Leonard, larceny
and Cecil Wood, vagrancN.