Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-03-12

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public button. He attended the
trial every minute.
The present case is similar to
the story in the novel Adam
Bede.P Hetty in the story was &C
quilted.
AS in the Madison murder trial
recently held in Baraboo, the
members of the jury were not per-
mitted to communicate with any
!. one except the bailiffs-H. H.
Schleden and Mrs. Eric C. Groth.
The bailiffs accompanied the jury
folk while in court, while at their
meals, and while they slept in the
hotel. In Wisconsin great caution
is exercised at murder trials.
The two state cases against Her
man Kruger VS.. M. S. Hillestad
have been placed at the foot of the
calendar.
Spring Green Moonshine
Prohibition officers raided the
feed barn operated by Harper Har
risen at Spring Green and found a
jug about half full of liquor. Har-
rison put up the plea that many
fellows came to the barn and he
was not able to know who was
secreting liquor about the place.
The jury thought it strange he did
not know about how such large
container as a jug came that way
} and therefore found him guilty In
short order.
When. Harrison faced Judge
Crosby and asked il he had any
thing to say, replied that he was
inndcent. The court then gave
him a fine of 500 or 80 days in
Jail. y.
:. Thomas w. King, his. attorney,
:, Spring Green banker. then gave
the assurance the total amount
4 about $13O would be paid
The jury: Fred Phillips, August
Kunzelman, Howard Palmer, Joe
, Laughney, Frank Clary, E. Ham
mermeister, Y. S. Pease, Mrs. Roy
Elias, Mrs. Fred Hutchens, Mrs.
Clifford True, Robert Banks, Mrs.
/ Buford Markham.
The witnesses: William Stone
sifer, Victor Schaefer, E.. F. Smith,
J. o. Wagner, Harper c.. Harrison,
; Jake Nickels, John Haas.
Jury Quickly Selected
When the time came to select
the jury in the Harrison case, it
was done in short order. Judge
j Crosby asked them. a few ques4
tons as a group, the attorneys
struck off three each. and this
, saved much time, and effort on the
, part of the lawyers.
False Pretenses 5a
The State case against John, E.
Jewell is before the court as we
go to press, An automobile, mort
gage and note are involved. The
case comes. from Reedsburg.
4 Reedsburg Case .5, Ia
In the State of Wisconsin case
against John E. Jewell of Viroqua,
the jury on Saturday in circus
court, found the defendant guilty
of obtaining an automobile under
false pretenses. Jewell purcha !;
ed second hand 1921 Nash car of
Theodore Schluter of Reedsbutg
giving in payment note of $3.50
with a note of $1,000, also mort.
gage, on a farm near New Auburn,
as collateral Jewell, according to
Schluter and other witnesses, said
the mortgage was first lien. on
the property and besides he wou'
later obtain money from his fathers
estate.
When the note came due Schluter
undertook to collect and found he
could not obtain the money. A
judgment was secured, in Vernon
county and he may later obtain the
value of the car. 1t was also
found the mortgage on the farm
near New Auburn was a. second
one, the first mortgage and inter,
est amounting to about $1,000
much more than the farm is worth
T. Y. Buchanan came from Ne :
Auburn and testified in 1912 : :
sold the place for $4,000 and thai
today he would take $4,000 for it
There has been paid $500 on the
first mortgage, all that Buchan n
, has received in the 13 years. The
note was to bear interest on inter
est so the $4,000 now is about ST.
900, after dedueting the $500 paid
Schluter tried to see his banker
R. P. Perry, before the deal was
closed but could not and let it 81
through on the representation OF
| Jewell, he said. He failed to ask
l for and obtain an abstract on the
: land this would have shown the
frua condition Of affairs Since