Show FIRST DISTRICT COURT the of tn transacted THE CASE OF MRS ANNA MARKS abolt the row at eureka sentence given in some U C caeg court was opened this morning in due form the case of the united slates vs andrew andersen unlawful cohabitation was the lorac case called he plead cuilty and promise to make he was sentenced to six months imprisonment and to pay a fine of harry AL pyne appeared for sentence on the charge of unlawful cohabitation no promises he also was give the usual and G juror mckinzie wag excused from service for alio present william A stewart will idrew his pica of not aind entered one of guilty to the charge of unlawful cohabitation sentence was postponed for the present the case of the people vs anna marks assault with a deadly weapon was called mr king in hobalt odthe defense asked for the privilege of with drawing the plea of not guilty and of interposing ter posing a demurrer to the indictment judge judd made an application to be allowed ti assist in the prosecution of the case the application was not granted air mckay for the prosecution desired to amend the indictment by striking out that portion of it relating to an assault on belle tompkins judge blackburn ruled that it would not be necessary as the indictment would be collective A jury vas paneled em and the caie was proceeded with the first witness called by the prosecution was belle tompkins she testified that ale lived at eureka gintic tintic and biad resided there for about nine years on the of august at 11 mrs marks and her servant girl came out of their house and put up a clothes line fastening one end of it to my gate post I 1 went and took the line down and li earing a noise I 1 looked up and heard anna marks saying to the servant girl run sarah and get out of the way I 1 saw mrs marks with a pistol sticking through the stockade fence she fired and one of the balls struck tny little daughter on the forehead she spun round like a top and fell to the ground we helped her to the house and sent for the doctor and had her head dressed I 1 am sure it was mrs marks saw her alie pistol to mr king the clothes line put up by mr marks was on my ground the land had nut been awarded to mrs marks by judge sutherland objections taken by prosecution overruled and objections taken I 1 did not use an oath and threaten miss hanks the servant girl I 1 did not throw rocks al alias bauks my daugh did not throw rocks at her I 1 did not rocks at mrs marks bouse I 1 did not see any rocks thrown at mrs marks house I 1 did not admit before the magistrate that any rocks bad been thrown the libuse we tore down was not on this ground the ground on which the clothes line was placed was mine and has never been in dispute my daughter eva did not fall against the stable the day before and make the wound on her head I 1 dont remember saying in the commissioners court that there was no blood came from the wound judge judd throughout this case had been giving considerable assistance in the prosecution of the case and mr king suggested that he be associated with alie prosecution inasmuch inae much as he seemed tha suggestion was acted upon the grand jury came in and reported that they had four indictments court took a recess until W A stuwart came up for sen tence aliis afternoon he did not desire to make any promises and was sentenced to four months imprisonment to pay a fine of 50 the annia marks trial was then proceed with may tompkins testified that she lived at eureka gintic tintic and that she was the daughter of bello tompkins Tomp kine on the irth of august I 1 saw mrs marks hired girl sarah hanks putting up a clothes line across the disputed ground and fastening one end to our cate post I 1 went and told mama mama came out and cut alie line down I 1 heard sirs marks holier to sarah to get out of alie way quick and then mrs marks commenced shooting I 1 threw rocks at her after she had shot but not before to mr kins I 1 dont like mrs marks I 1 would like to see her sent to the pen eo she shoot at us eva thompkins testified that she resided at eureka gintic tintic I 1 know defendant fen dant last august mrs marks and sarali hanks came out aud put up a wire clothes line fastening one end to our gate post they went back in the house and sarah came out with a basket of clothes mama went out with a hatchet to cut down the line when ma had cut alie line mrs marks came out of her house and hollered to baran to get out of the way quick she then fired two hots it mama and two shots at me one of the struck me on the forehead |