The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-27
AS OWN ATTORNEY
 HE HAD HARDLUCK
Walter Cox, Charged With Abandon ing Wife and Child, Gets S20O Fine, 30 Days in Jail--2 of Alleged
 Robber Band Plead Guilty.

A jury in the opening session of the criminal branch of the Polk county circuit court expressed it's hearty dis approval Monday morning of a pris- oner who attempted to act as his own attorney. The man in question, Wal ter Cox, was not only fined $250 but was given 30 days in jail Not sat istied with penalizing Cox to that ex- tent the jury returned the same ver- dict on the two counts of the indict- ment, which make the total fine $500 and the total jail sentence so days.
 Cox was charged with wife and child abandonment and has been a boarder at Sheriff Thornton's hotel for some weeks past. The accused man refused a chance to plead guilty with the possibility of getting min mum sentence, but insisted on stand ing trial and acting as his own att torney. The jury which heard the case was composed of J. O. Gates, c. M. Edwards, J l.. Reed, c. l.. Baker, Horace Chambers, w. l.. Lin- am, B. l.. Lichlyter, w. A. Norris, Freeman l.. Johnson, Hey Hudgins, Gene Twyford, H. R. Groves.
 4 charge of wife and child aban- donment made against c. B. Stanford, was dismissed at the cost of the de- fendant.
 Judge J. S. Steel began calling the cases on the criminal docket at a. m. Monday and disposed of a number before the noon hour. The Cox case was the first jury trial of the week.
 E. Evett, charged with petit lar- ceny, entered a plea of guilty and was fined $1.
 Will D. Harper, charged with be- ing drunk, pleaded guilty and was fined $10 and costs, while a charge of carrying concealed weapons against him was dismissed.
 Grant Bell, charged with aggra- vated assault, in connection with the attack on John Shorter at Bog Springs last summer, pleaded guilty and was fined $50 and costs. < w. A. Atkins, a youth without a home, arrested at Vandervoort and charged with burglary, after having been caught at Cecil's store, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the re- form school.
 Myrtle Thurman, the 17-year-old AA0tbOll SAAAs ntlQ lOI CduEiilK Lllt death of her new born baby. was of- fered by Attorney Stuart as an ob- ject of mercy to the court and Judge Steel responded by sentencing the girl to the girls industrial home. This case is one of the saddest cases ever brought to the attention of the local officials.
 Judge Steel has named as jury fafxt %Tsrx~ tr.sa. field. sam Looney of Board Camp and Edwin B Cox of Mena.
 Two members of the alleged robber band charged with grand larceny pleaded guilty in court Monday morn ing and sentence will be pronounced later. The two who pleaded guilty were Jess Nichols and Harvey James.
 Had Moonshine and Dynamite.
 Deputy Prosecuting Attorney E. w. Mills was called to Egger Monday to try three men charged with trans porting liquor. The trio had been ap- prehended by Deputy Sheriff Faulk- ner, while on the banks of the Qua chita in possession of both dynamite and moonshine, he says. At a hear ing before Justice Hoffman the three men, Henry Walston and the Fergu- sons, were bound over to await a hearing on the 14th. Roy Ferguson was fined S10 for drunkenness.
 The trial of George Martin, the man charged with the robbery of the Bank of Vandervoort. is scheduled to come up Tuesday and the Kolb mur- der case on Wednesday.
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