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Show Will be Sentenced on Saturday, Satur-day, December 21, DEFECT IN INDICTMENT itar Yet Throw the Case Out of Court anrt Allow tho Guilty Man to Go Free of Further Punishment Other Matters iu Court. Judge Rolapp held another late session ses-sion ot the First District court on Saturday Sat-urday to conclude the tual of the Ralphs adulleiy case, Allien testimony testi-mony was offered upon the part ot the government to prove that Mr. Ralphs and Miss Duke acted for many monttiB and upon many occasions as devoted lovers and the cross-examination of some of the witnesses who gave this class of testimony greatly tickled the large aulience out to hear the racy developments in the case. The couple weio traced at lako reaorts, at picnics , out riding, at dances, etc., and a rep etition of what was said and done by the two upon these occasions was laughable at times, sentimental at times, pitiful at times and sometimes rather shameful. The two were no slouches at the love-making business, rather were thev experts ; and while many of the onlookers learned some "points" sb to "how it is done," not one ol the witnesses for the prosecu tion who gave this line of testimony but has vowed that forever more hereafter here-after they will never, no nevera gain, come into court to give away the secrets of episodes such as buggy rlde3, etc., where what is said and done is eup-poBed eup-poBed to be said and dene in sacred confidence. Much testimony was also offered as to the good character of th9 prosecuting witness. The defense also pruved the good character of the defendant de-fendant Ralphs an1 undertook to prove that Miss Duke went out frequently with men and boys, drank beer and otherwise behaved herself unbecomingly unbecom-ingly but it was of no avail. Tne jury were out only a short time and returned re-turned into court with a verdict of guilty. Sentenced will be passqd on Dec, 21st. An attempt was.m ad e.taJiay&thfeiC&Ba. JthSyTSSplAiir charge? umf SoSensewas committed with oua Teeme Duke. Miss Duke s fires name iVnotTenie but Phena S. If a new ml b , SStea and the.defendant's attorneys at-torneys succeed in getting the indictment indict-ment quashed, under the circumstances circum-stances this will be a serious technicality techni-cality for the offirers tor the government govern-ment to cope with. The last grand Srv for this district under territorial rue was on Saturday discharged. The state laws, it is ndd .mil not apply to this case. If this is ?ue.it may transpire that Ralphs, PUllly and deserving 01 pumsnmem be a, will not have to go to Uil for his cr,me nor pay other penalty than he has already done in the monetary outlay and humiliation of the trial just had. I The grand jury in its final report presented on Saturday announced that the following cases had been ignored : The People vs. Henry Tanner, grand laTheYPecple va. WhitTock & Lund-holm, Lund-holm, grand larceny. The People ys. John Doe, arson. Toe People vs. Rafield Rodgers, grihe U JHi May Honey, adultery. The U. S. ys. Oarolme Jacobsen, a The V. S. vs. Caroline Smith, for-UlTte for-UlTte U. S. vs, Jefferson Carter, un IaThfl1mEmeQrBhaw, adultery. TheU. S. vs. O. H. Warner, obstructing ob-structing U S. mail. Sty-six indictments have been returned; re-turned; twenty-nine cBBea have been I i ignored and two submitted to the next grand jury. BHK WANTS TO BB DIVORCED, Mre Mary L. Allred of Mt. Pleasant who to , bSi married to J. Par ey 1U-red 1U-red since September 18, 18b6 now wants to be freed from her lord and master, for the reason that he has deserted de-serted her without cause since 1891. She also wants custody of Ada Pearl Allred, aged sixteen. Suit was Qled today- |