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Show GARLING IS GUILTY He Says So Hicaelf and Gets Five Years. SUDDEN TERMINATION Of the Important Attempted Poisoning-Case Poisoning-Case From Fillmore The Jury in tho ECcOarty-Iilalinirreen Case Failed, to Ajrree Nelson va. Johansrm Trespass Oase Other Business, The jury in the McCarty-Malmgreen cattle stealing case retired at 10 o'clock yesterday (Wednesday)moming to consider con-sider their verdict. They remained out all day and until this afternoon when they returned into court and re-Dorted re-Dorted that they were unable to agree and were discharged. "Upon the opening of court this morning morn-ing a surprise was perpetrated upon the couit, the prosecution, the jury and all interested in the Carling poiEoning case by the defense which arose and I asked the privilege of withdrawing its plea of not guilty to the indictment. This waB granted and a plea ofuilty was thereupon entered. The young man waB called up before the judge who aBked him if he had anything to say why the sentence of the ccurt should not now bo passed upon him. Ilia attorneys made a plea for leniency. setting forth his youththe fact that he has a young wife depending upon him, the fact that he is repentant, has all along, but for this circumstance." borne an exceptionally good character and imputation, and the deed was done as the rash conclusion ot a boyish and immature mind, which did not realize the enormity of the attempted crime nor its awful consequences. The judge sentenced the boy to a term of live yearB in the pententiary and he waB taken up to that bastile today. The next case taken up was the one ntitled Maiinus Nelson Nel-son vs. Lars A. Johansen. C, H. Blomsterberg, David Vincent, Juseph Smith and A. E. Yeatch. The particulars are that plaintiff sold to one Johansen a piece of ground in the southwestern part of the city on the in stallment plan. Mr. Johansen had erected thereon a rouch lumber house and Inter failed in J- entrant -OM. property reverted back to Nelson including in-cluding all improvements. The house was removed by these defendants bv and under the advice of A. E Veatch, attomey-at-law, whose advice was asked and paid for. Mr, Nelson now sues for $250 00 damages tor the house, and for trees, fences, corral?, etc,, destroyed. de-stroyed. The jury found for plaintiff awarding damages at $1C0 00. |