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THE MORNING HEARING IN PO LICE COURT. Judge Cochran Gives J. Bertram and Lulu Benton a Chance to Enter the Matrimonial Swim, But There's the Rub. Anna Lipp, the German woman who was incarcerated in the city jail Sunday night upon the supposition that her mind was deranged, was discharged from custody yesterday upon agreeing to leave the city immediately. An investi gation developed the fact that the wo man had borne a rather shady reputation in Fremont, and was possessed of a spirit of innate cussedness rather than of a weak mind, which caused Chief Dinges to send her out of the city. J. Bertram and Lula Benton, the couple arrested at the Hutchins block, corner Twentieth and O, Sunday morn ing, on the charge of sustaining un lawful relations, were arraigned before Judge Cochran. Bertram evinced a willingness to marry the Benton woman as a sort of palliation for the offense charged, and the latter was not unlike the famous Mr. Barkis. Bertram was willing to have the event celebrated immediately, but his attorney objected. Finally Judge Cochran admitted the couple to bail and continued the case for one week, intimating if they married in the meantime all prosecution would be dropped. It was said that the woman is somewhat entangled in matrimonial meshes inasmuch as she has a husband living. She denied this, however, and declares she has news paper clippings showing that she was granted a divorce, Bertram’s attorney intimated that those cripplings were probably the work of some lying news paper map, and Miss Benton retorted that her experience with lawyers taught her that truth was a word unknown in their vocabulary—that they juggled with veracity from necessity, as well as choice. The argument was getting rather warm when Judge Cochran ended it by calling the next case. The preliminary examination of Harry Rhodes, the young man charged with stealing a silk dress at the old St. Elmo hotel, has been set for one o’clock this afternoon. A. W. Russell, the Burlington switch man, who struck an Iowa farmer with a poker Saturday morning, was discharged for want of prosecution, no one appear ing to prosecute. It was learned that the old man was induced to skip out for Iowa by Russell threatening to prefer charges of a serious nature against him. Tim Kennedy, Joe McCall, Robert Ricketts and James McMahus, four gen tlemen of leisure who were gathered into the fold Sunday, were discharged upon agreeing to leave town. W. D. Jones, J. W. Smith, Jack Mey ers, C. E. Nobbinger and W. D. Owens, all candidates for the Keeley Institute at Blair, paid $1 and costs.
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Lincoln Daily Nebraska State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Tue, Dec 22, 1891
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