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Show CRIMINAL CALENDAR. Lawyer Newton Plugs Up the Docket ! by Springing an Old PJay Under a New Name. MISS POLLY BERRY'S ROMANCE. The Scandal to he Revived in the District Dis-trict Court He Married Sisters Driggs against Johnson Various Court Notes. A shower of delays again threw the crim- inal calendar behind this morning, the following fol-lowing settings going over until 9 o'clock this afternoon: People vs. John Berry and John Heenan ; burglary. People vs. Ben W. Driggs, jr. ; forgery. People va. Alexanker Johnson; forgery. People vs. David Murray; fornication. The case against Berry and Heenan, a brace of vandals who are held for entering Luce & Bearman's establishment and departing de-parting with one thousand cigars of the value of $80, was called, when Lawyer Newton New-ton reproduced an old play under a new name, and asking leave to withdraw the plea of the defendants upon the occasion of their arraignment, launched s demurrer to the Indictment, "ennuiel lor the defense held that the indictment charged tlie prisoners prison-ers with having entered the saloon with the "intention of committing larceny and then and there did commit larceny," and demurred de-murred to it on the ground that it charges two offenses which is contrary to the statute. In support of his position he introduced California reports 39 and 43. in which analogous analo-gous cases are reviewed at exhaustive lengt h. Assistant District Attorney Stephens replied re-plied that the indictment conformed to the oractice of the court, but to meet the issue on its meriU, asked until tomorrow morning to be heard. The trial was adjourned over to that time. Court Notes. The case of the people against C. W. Bonner Bon-ner is set for tomorrow. The Northland-Mayflower esse is stijl dragging along in the district court. Judge Anderson requests as many members mem-bers of the bar as possible at the setting of civil jury cases tomorrow morning. The accounts of Hon. Charles S. Varian, LTnited States attorney, for the quarter ending end-ing March 31st were approved this morning. It's a cold day for the pettyfogging fellow fel-low who is compelled to explore a docket of 900 cases to find the solitary one in which he is interested. In the case of F. B. Gifford, charged with forgery, in that he had altered the date on a railway ticket, the jury returned a ver diet of guilty, at the same time recommending recommend-ing the prisoner to the mercy of the court. Gilbert Marchant, who was arrested by deputy United States marshals at Peoa on a charge of unlawful cohabitation, and who, it is said, ia married to sisters, appeared before be-fore Judge Anderson this morning ind entered en-tered a plea of not guilty. He was released on bonds. Miss Polly Berry, who urges that she was betrayed by the father of her child, is billed to make her appearance in the district court tomorrow morning. The case will not likely go into active adjudication, however, as Judge Dickson, counsel for the respondent, is engaged in the Northland-Mayflower ease, the end of which has not ye" appeared. "We may be attorneys in U," chirruped Judge Hoge during the setting of jury-trials jury-trials this morning as he groped meditatively medita-tively through the darkness, "but I don't know that we have any case of that character." char-acter." Parley Williams Let's agree that you have not. It drifted out of sight on the risibles of the bar. |