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T roubleTo Get JuryFor Park CaseBolito Act As Prosecutor In Ella Demont Trial-Three Minor Girls In Court During Preliminary TacticsF.artoshP:wInability to obtain a jury in ju-V*mle court Thursday resulted in the trial of Mrs. Ella Westfall, known also'as Ella DeMont, 720 Maple avenue, going over until Thursday after-poem She is ehargod with contributing to juvenile delinquency. She is part owner of While Oily Park.At or three jurors were excused and : their places filled, the list of .special - jurors drawn from, the wheel Wednesday was exhausted. A poremp-thwiUlt;’«pl.nr:-iSTEALS CLOTHESStranger Escapes With Loot Valued at About $100.flOO and a stolen fromtiethe■'•.’.Clothes %*alued at• jnh’-wurth 5-10 were .. room of Carl Munch at the Lakcview ■ hotel, Sixth and Heaton streets bya stranger who registered thero and clyed ' for a short time, •according to / ir statement made to poKce today by •' Munch. •■ . The stranger got into Munch’s %t6om while ho was out of it for on-1 ly a short time. The loot consisted• a light suit, valued at $35; a fcrowri suit valued at $52, a pair of; *hces worth $10 nnd a shirt valued at ; $3,; and the tie pin.'* 4 • According to the description given’police by t Munch the stranger was about 30 year of age, 5 feet 8 inches fn height and wore ab Iue suit and ulnine hat.tlFTSFIKEJHENIMPOSES WJudge Kautz Revoke Act of Yesterday for Heavier Sentence.Afine of SlQO and costa on a charge of intoxicntion and disorder)y conduct imposed upon Elmer Daily, SouUi Thirteenth street, by Jpdgo Kautz Wednesday was withdrawn today and. another of $100 and costs and;a year in the Dayton workhouse Was\given him for nonsupport.Humane Officer Fi rtf rock brought 1 Daily bock from the workhouse early j today to have the charge against him changed so that bis wife would receive money during his sentence.Daily was returned to the workhouse this afternoon.Lauderman JoinsSioux Falls NineLou Lauderman, well baseball player, left forknown local Sioux Falls,tory challenge by AttorneyHarry S. Wonnell, caused a vacancy in the jury box and a new list of names svas drawn from the wheel.The names wove as follows: Miss Jo Heiser, 42 North Seventh street; Mrs. Florence Millikin, 124 North Third street; Lester E. Kennell, Trenton; Henry Zecher, Monroe; David W. Hois or, 819 Dayton street; John Gray, 423 North Seventh street; Mrs. Christ G. Fischer, Central avenue and Third street; Mrs. Ben Ceilings, 405 South D. street; W. T. Suivcly, R. R.1 Seven Mile; Mrs. Mercer Davis, Main nnd D streets;* Mrs. C. E.. Wool-ford, Cleveland aven.ue; Chris A. Etcnois, Sr., lOo Main street.The list of available jurors from ’ this, call was exhausted before the J panel was filled and a third list of special jurors was drawn from the wheel as follows? William T. Hodk, 717 Ross avenue; Lucien L. Davidson, 204 East Second street, Middletown; Mary Hunter Miller, Ross avenue and B street; George A. Cole, lQGu Baltimore street, 'Middletown; Eva Dinfield, Somerville; Frank Elliott, Mason rond; Amos Farnswort, 2 Euton avenue; Mrs. Charles Millikin, 437 Ross avenue; Harry C. Augspurger, Trentbn; Mrs. Glen Holden, 1424' Maple Ave.; Elizabeth Bender, 709 Dayton street; Mrs. William Daull, 2535 Dixie Highway.Time consumed in summoning prospective jurors led Judge R. S. Woodruff to recess court until 1:30 p. m.Mrs. Westfall is charged with contributing to tho delinquency ofMarion French, 17, Dora F.calfo, 17 and Alice Adams, 16 years old. The girls are now under sentence to the Girls Industrial Home at Delaware growing out of a case in which sensational testimony was jd vcn involving visits to White City park of which Mrs. Westfall is part owner.• On the same charge, William (Pat) Gradolph, proprietor, was convicted and sentenced to .one year in the Dayton workhouse, fined $1,000 nnd costs of which $500 was suspended on condition that White City park remain closed, Harry Gradolph, employee of the park, was also convicted, fined $100 and costs and given a suspended sentence of one year in the workhouse.Court officials maintain that Mrs. Westfall as oarl owner of the park is equally liablp. The easet however, does not rest on that fact alone as juvenile court officials say that •new evidence, not heard in the. trial of Grndolph* will be introduced in the present case.The three girls were in court Thursday morning awaiting call as witnesses,- They are in custody of Hattie S, Clark, assistant probation officer.Judge Woodruff overruled motions for Attorney Wonnell to quash the charges, demurrers to the warrants and the motion for the court to elm1, which charge will be prosecuted, Wonnell excepted to the rulings. Prosecutor P. P. Boli ia prosecuting the ense. Boll passed 011 challenges of prospective jurors but Wcmnell, indications were, would avatf himself of the legal number of challenges.Due to the limited space in the juvenile courtroom r the trial was transferred to the courtroom of Judge Walter Harlan of pleas court.«*th\YccreIVmP«ftDtimirUeiJiln/icommon
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Hamilton Daily News
Hamilton, Ohio, US
Thu, Apr 26, 1923
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