Show A MISCELLANEOUS DAY The Different Cases Before the District Dis-trict CourtFrank Stoddart Pleads A Boy Thief This mornings session of the Third District Court was remarkable for the almost entire absence of cohabs as well as for the many different classes of criminals crim-inals who appeared The first business taken up was the i arraignment of S M Loveudahl upon the i rather unusual charge of turning water from a public ditch The defendant entered a plea of not guilty Mr Rawlins then arose and stated that a client of his Walter J Hewlett who had beenindicted for murder in the first degree was given to epileptic fits and that he was sometimes taken with them as often as twice a day He said he did not see how the defendant could be brought into court as any little excitement excite-ment was liable to throw him into a fit He therefore asked that the case be continued con-tinued for the term Mr Dickson objected to the continuance continu-ance stating that the case had already been put off time after time and that he was unwilling to dismiss the case because I he thought the defendant was still responsible respon-sible despite his ailment The Judge decided to see for himself whether or not the defendant could stand the excitement of a trial and he therefore ordered that he be required to appear in court tomorrow morning 1rank btoddart the boy rapist who was arraigned on Friday last was then brought up to plead He entered a plea of not guilty Mr Critchelow who was appointed to defend the boy stated that he had not yet had a chance to procure I witnesses for the defense and would therefore like a little time in which to prepare for the trial The case was therefore continued until Wednesday I morning next at 10 oclock Lucien Adams one of the boys engaged en-gaged in the recent robbery of Sadie Nobles maison de joie was the next prisoner called The boy who is only 12 years old and quite small for his age went forward and while standing on tip toe to look over the edge of the clerks desk he listened to the reading of the indictment He is charged with stealing two pistols and when asked for his plea he said he was guilty of stealing one of them The boys mother who is a widow appeared with him and said that she had sent him to school she was obliged to go out washing for a living and it was impossible for her to keep track of him The boy promised to do better in tile mture ana atier a little lecture from the Court he was allowed to go free with a suspended sentence hanging over his head during his good behavior Next just to make things seem more natural Clerk McMillan called Rasmus Nielson up for arraignment on a unlawful cohabitation indictment Brother Niel son listened attentively and after expressing ex-pressing his innocence in Danish and Sweedish he got some sort of a urim and thummim combination on his tongue and succeeded in making the Court understand under-stand that his plea was not guilty THE TUFTS CASE The only case tried today was that i against Elbridge Tufts charged with assault as-sault with intent to do bodily harm upon his brother Don C Tufts It would seem from the testimony introduced in-troduced by the prosecution that on the 30th of May last while Elbridge Tufts I was irrigating his lot he allowed the water to overflow on to the sidewalk and garden of his brother Don Cand that when the latter went to turn the water off the former struck at him with the edge of a shovel l and that it was only by Dons throwing up his arm that he was saved from receiving the blow in the head The defense on the other hand claim that in the first place the water had not run on to Dons property and that in the second place Elbridge did not strike at his brother but was simply trying to get his shovel into the water to move the dam damThe The is rather case a complicated one and brings out a story of a long strife be tween the two brothers The jury is de bating upon the case at the time we go to press and they will not be denied the pleasure of deciding the case |