Show LENIENT ALL ROUND Annie Prindle is Sentenced to Six Months for Riddling a Man CASE OF MALICIOUS PROSECUTION I Robber John Smith Seeks Release From the Penitentiary When His Record Looms Tip Against Him On the evening of May 5th last the policemen po-licemen on Vest Temple street were startled star-tled by the report of three pistol shots in tho rear of Sanford Mastersons saloon r and rushing back there they found a manly man-ly ng on the ground writhing in agony I while over him stood a tall young woman I with a smoking revolver in her hand The woman was Annie Prindle a pretty professional pro-fessional nurse who had come hero with s her parents from Kansas City some months beTore while tho man was Sanford Mas terson a saloon keeper The real cause of the shooting has never been learned but It seems that Masterson who is a handsome hand-some fellov has been paying Miss Prin tiLe attention and that a few days before tho shooting they had a quarrel Master son was on his way to the theatre with another t an-other woman when the nurse who had 1 evidently been waiting for him shot him down Although Mastorson had two or three bullets in his body ho recovered and Miss Prindle was Indicted for an assault with intent to murder mur-der Of course the affair created a great sensation and the preliminary proceedings wore closely watched Powers followed At noon yesterday Judge lowed by Miss Prindle entered the Third t district court room while Judge Anderson was on the bench The defendant was I plainly though neatly attired in black and I she took a seat while Judge Powers I addressing the court said that Miss Prindle desired to withdraw the plea of not guilty to the indictment and enter a plea of guilty to the charge of assault with a deadly weapon In view of all the circumstances this was satisfactory to the prosecution Mis Prindle had decided to take this stop although he did not favor it for he doubted whether any twelve men could be found who when they learned all of the peculiar facts In the case would convict her of any higher offense than that of assault as-sault and battery This case had been the subject of great comment in the local press When the defondant committed tho assault i upon Masterson she was greatly aggravated 1 aggra-vated and greatly distressed in mind Tho United States assistant district attorney I Mr Stephens had known her longer than 1 ho Judge Powers had and would speak of her favorably For himself ho had i found Miss Prindle since taking up her defense in this matter to be a girl of her word in every regard Owing to her womanly feeling she had sealed his lips asher 1 as-her counsel and declined to allow him to I state to tho court the exceeding aggravation aggra-vation which induced her to commit the act now charged against her Ho knew this howeverthat she was more sinned against than sinning II Masterson was not injured to any extent i ex-tent tho shooting produced a mere flesh wound which did not lay him up for any 1 length of time and would have no injurious effect upon his health But rather than I have the whole affair ventilated in court she now came and pleaded guilty Whatever What-ever the relations were between the parties par-ties Miss Prindle would not allow him to state Judge Powers next explained that the accused had been earning her livelihood as a thoroughly trained nurse and in this capacity had won the esteem of those with whom she had been associated But she was now without money and so to speak friends also She was as repentant for I what she had done as anyone could be and her womanly qualities were shown by the fact that she was willing to suffer imprisonment 1 impris-onment rather than let her attorney relate i the circumstances of this painful case in i open court i United States Assistant District Attorney At-torney Stephens said the prosecution did not wish to press for a hard sentence and Mr Elchnor who was present shared in this view Indeed he thought it would be well under the circumstances for the court to show as much leniency as possible I He felt himself justified in saying this Mr Stephens also spoke very favorably of b sown knowledge of Miss Prindles kindness kind-ness and experience as a nurse Judge Anderson then directed the defendant de-fendant to stand up He said it was possible pos-sible that in this case like many others of the kind where wrong had been done by men though of course he did not know as none of the circumstances had been stated that no more injury had been done to the I man than he deserved He might have deserved de-served all the injury he received and possibly pos-sibly more but that did not here appear 1 It was necessary however in these cases for the protection of society that an example ex-ample should be made of the accused The shooting at Masterson was a very serious matter and might have ended fatally but I it was pretty hard to toll in a case of this sort what ought to be done His honor then sentenced the defendant to six months imprisonment in the penitentiary I peniten-tiary Miss Prindle was deeply affected during Judge Powers appeatin her behalf With good behavior in the penitentiary I her term of imprisonment will be reduced 1 to four months DAMAGE SUIT POll MALICIOUS JMFRISOX MEXT The case of John B Taylor vs John W Smith was next taken up The plaintiff alleged I al-leged that on January 1Sg0 the defendant went before Commissioner Norrell and falsely charged the plaintiff with having stolen fifty pounds of bullion of the value > of 340 that upon this charge I without probable cause and through malice he had been arrested upon said charge and he was imprisoned in tho county jail from 113 > pm on January i Jan-uary 7 until S pm of the night of January 8 that on January 10 tho plaintiff was examined ex-amined before tho commissioner and discharged i 1 dis-charged The plaintiff then alleged that 1 the charge and arrest were both extent exten-t sively published and he was thereby injured in-jured and disgraced in the eyes of the community and suffered greatly in his good name and reputation He therefore asked I 11 i damages in the sum of 5050 1 A verdict will bo reached this morning 11 I W L Pickard vsW A Bills et al continued i con-tinued II I Shuinut Consolltated Gold and Silver I Mining company et al vs G A Rice eta I et-a 1 default and judgment for J357 i Mary Anderson vs Thomas Venard ten days additional time allowed in which to S answer t William Douglas vs Mark McKImminp submitted and taken under advisement i J C O Irvine and J S Kincaid petit k Jurors were excused |