The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1921-01-28
1921 COURT CONyENES
TUESDAY; kLYSEN GUILTY
FIRST CRIMINAL CASE VERDICT
"GUILTY,' GUST PAUL CASE NEXT;
LARGE CROWDS ATTEND C0URT.

diclal 0lfculC court convened at 10.a0
O'Clock Tuesday morning at the court
house, with Judge Frank Anderson
presiding.
Four criminal cases were on the
docket, AZ civil actions and "a annl;-
cations for naturalization papers.
Inc examination OF the applicants
Tor citizenship We're taken up first and
8 were admitted, & continued for 4
second or third hearing, 8 denied their
petition and 10 did not appear at court
Tor examination.
The three who were denied admis-
sion were, Emil Demke, of Big Stone,
who had as witnesses John Roth and
John Mielitz. who was denied on the
grounds of certain defamatory state
ments he made during and since the
war. Anfers lver johnson, of Strand
burg. who had as witnesses. Theo.
Holsten and Victor Lindburg, was de-
med papers because of the fact that
he claimed exemption from the SER
vice during the war on the ground that
ne was an alien. Lawrence Brotzel
who was up for the third examination.
was denied his petition on the grounds
that he did not. have sufficient know
ledge of the workings of the Ameri-
can government and had not attended
the night school 80 that he might
learn.
Those who were admitted were, OF
to Dlezmann, Leonard Schaler, Ennan-
uel Lundburg, TOrsten Nord0uist, John
Geissinger and Otto Schneck.
Those whose applications were con-
tinued are: Christ Popoff, Baltasar,
Tuchscherer, Theodor Benson, Maur-
ice Hansen, Carl Troelsen, Wilhelm
Bergstrom, James Jones, Casin.r Bor-
uta, Herman Reihe, William Thiele,
Franz Pepka, Gustav Mielitz, Ru-
dolph Ernest, Otto rhiele and John
Reischke.
The first criminal case to be called
was the John Klysen case, who was
charged with assault with Il deadly
weapon to do great bodily harm. He
entered Ii plea of not guilty to the
charge. The case was opened We'd
resday morning and the entire morn
ing was spent in drawing the iuIy.
The .Melye men who servel On the
jury are A. A. Chapman, George
Mitchell. Fred Murray, John Carlson,
". Il. ioueiIs, Ed Swerson, ". F.
Meyer, W. A. LoescEke. Albert kaa.
II. \. tenner, o. Il. Olson and ..has.
No Waters
The introducing OF the evidence for
Tie state Degan Immediately after
Eoon al.d :t,.esses We're ca,,- Ned
netiai md Thursday tn. case was
expected to go to the jury for decision
late Thursday or Friday morning.
The case grew out Of a family quar-
rel iatln" number OF ears back.
klNsen niati a a nie". of reter Will
liams all; crdeavore &c settle -he
,Aafrei for ce and d., according to
h!& tc.tinorN on the stand. Both the
''lcn~e al. The state ciaim the par
ticiDants of lie fla..; to have wild
and ungovernable tempers. The state
in ats opening argument stated that
1t would prove that without provoco-
cation, and after klysen had made
friendly advances, he picked up the
ak and struck Mr. Williams in the
left leg Just above the knee. The de-
tense stated that they would prove
that Mr.. Williams had the ak raised
in an attempt to strike klysen, who
in defending himself threw Williams,
who fell on the ak and was to blame,
for cutting himself.
The other two cases on the criminal
calendar are the Gust Paul and w. S.
Bell cases. Both are charged with vio-
lating the 18th amendment.
Out-of-the- city lawyers who are
attending this term Of court are Aaron
Kaercher of Ortonville who is attor-
ney for John klvsan: Frar'- Nc
kenna Of Sisseton, attorney for Farm~
ers' State Bank of Hammer in their
case against H. A. Morrill,; C. o. New
comb of Aberdeen, who is attorney
for Walker .. Hines, director general
Of railways in the case Of Fred Grothe
ct al VS.. w. D. Hines; John Hannon,
OF Watertown, attorney for Aurusta
l. Greening against the Bank Of Com
merce, and George Case, MaLeitown,
attorney for Fl. r. Jones'
Twelve of the thirty-six jurors !.
drawn for this term Of court were
unable to be here or were excused
from serving and special sherlfF's
panel OF twelve men were drawn and
ca.ted for Tuesday morning after the
court convened.
I Those who were called are: George
Mitchell, Gust Swanson, John ,TlIli-
man. Barney Peschong, A. A. Chan
man, George Bury, Chas. McWaters.
James Mckenna and Ben Vote.
LATER--The John Klyscn ease
went to the jury Thursday afteF1
and they retired " two o'cl0cl tQ
eide upon q verdict, @
At five-thirty the jury rslid1
verdict Of .Eailtya !. hnt ats
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