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Finds Fourteen True Bills and Ig nores But One Case. A Variety of Crimes Charged—Twelve Defendants in Jail— The Walker Case. The grand jury came into the dis trict court with its September report at 2 o’clock this afternoon. It finds fourteen indictments and ignores one case. The indictments are: State vs. George Brown and Harry O’Ferrell; breaking and entering the store building of Frey Kelley at Me diapolis. State vs. Robt. Johnson; for assault with intent to murder his wife near Sperry. State vs. Henry Welton; assault with intent to murder John Welcome. State vs. John Shay, Thomas Holmes and W. Sheeney; for breaking into Meckler’s clothing store on Main street. State vs. John Harson; for breaking into a railroad car. State vs. J.D. Peters; for breaking into Hathaway's barn and stealing a har ness. State vs. Thomas W. Kelley; for ob taining money by false pretenses from Unterkircher Bros. on a stolen team brought from New London, State vs. Robt. Zart; obtaining mon ey by false pretenses from Robt. Sut ter, by claiming that his child had just died and he wanted funds to bury it and buy a mourning dress. State vs. Joseph Rothschilds; steal ing a traveling man’s satchel from a railway coach. State vs. Geo. Roberts; assault with intent to rape Amelia Schiedmann. State vs. E. M. Organ; larceny from a building by stealing a set of razors from E. M. Pond's shop on Jefferson street. State vs. W. J. Conway, assault with intent to murder Chief Low of the po lice department. The case that the jury ignored is that of James Duvall, a decepit old citizen residing in the south part of the city, who was charged with attempting to rape a little girl. There was not suffi cient evidence to make a case. There are several other cases in which true bills are found, but the names are withheld until arrests can be made. All of the defendants in the above list are now in jail. The grand jury inspected the county jail and the city prison and found both institutions in perfect condition. This grand jury has, it is said, ac complished more work in less time than any grand jury in the history of the county. The Walker Case, Judge Smyth's court is occupied today with the Walker trial, evidence being now about all in. It appears that the Walker farm was originally purchased with Mrs. Walker's money, the sum of $6,000 received by her from sale of some mining property in Colorado, but that with her consent Mr. Walker’s name went into all the titles and he man aged the farm. A couple of witnesses for the defense yesterday admitted on cross-examination that Silas Walker “had mentioned to witness that his wife had drawn some money from her folks, and could now do as she pleased,”’ and that Silas “had told him that if he were a single man he'd go west where land was cheap, but as it was he was staying here with his wife, all of the property being hers.” This is regarded as damaging to the case of the elder Widow Walker. As to Mrs. Elizabeth Walker’s claim of inheritance by survival of her son in the drowning Incident, the evidence showed that Silas Walker had suffered from a broken leg that often troubled him, and that his son was in perfect health, and that the latter would be likely to cling longest to life.
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Burlington Gazette
Burlington, Iowa, US
Thu, Sep 19, 1895
Page 4
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