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DTEWILL FINISHTRIAL TODAYTHE HEARING OF THE LEWIS DAMAGE SUIT IS NEARING THE END.F.ivefln-ds*on4dere*ofry-od.m*ln-re-m-iln)menlp.ndBLACK HAND CASEngngInalheitsQ€J. Roy Besco to Face Charge of Writing Threatening Letter to Eddyville Banker—Weiee It Here.With the completion of the damage •uit of Lawrence Lewis against the Chicago Northwestern railroad that hat been in hearing since the opening of the federal court Monday, the trial of the’ Betco black hand case will begin. This is made possible through the settlement of the Riddle vs. Wabash railroad, a damage case for some $20,000. The settlement stipulates the plaintiff be given $1,100 and the costs be borne by the defendant. Clyde Koon who was yesterday indicted for bootlegging was given sixty days in Jail in*Polk county with a fine of $100 to be collected on execution.May Close Today.The Lewis damage suit for $5,000 brought because of tfn injury received by the plaintiff when struck by a train on the Northwestern in Bluff Creek township, Monroe county, willEln all probability close this afternoon early. The testimony was completed this morning and the arguing of the case to the Jury will not take long. Before the session opened this morning Judge Smith McPherson heard further argument for a new trial in the Clyde Stansbury vs. the Wabash railroad case, won by Stansbury in a | former term of the United States court ri- j here.in j Besco Case Next,it. I The case that promises to create perhaps more local interest than any of those to be herd in the April term of federal court, is that of the United States vs. J. Roy Besco. This is the case t;.at caused no little excitement a when the circumstances that brought Hi ! it to light were disclosed a year ago. •3 • The case Is brought under the criminal g. code, act of March 4. 1909. and deals * with a black hand letter sent to the j Manning Epperson state bank atNEddyville.Welts to Testify.Half a dozen witnesses on each side | will be heard in the trial of the case and among those who will appear on the stand, is Assistant Superintendent E. J. Weiss, of the Pinkerton detec- J tive aftency at Chicago. Mr. Weiss is one of the detectives who is largely responsible for securing the evidence that la to be used against the defend-ent in the hearing. He with B. D. Way, a Pinkerton man who worked in Ottumwa on the Junkin case, was engaged, Mr. Weiss taking charge upon the return to Chicago of B. D. Way after seeing Besco visit the place where the decoy package was left by 1} Mr. Epperson.Pi
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Ottumwa Tri Weekly Courier
Ottumwa, Iowa, US
Sat, Apr 08, 1911
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