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The Circuit Court In Session

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
October
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The October term of the circuit court began Monday with 105 cases on the docket. The first move was the striking of one of the cases off the docket, the anuouncement that two cases were settled and application for the continuance of two more cases. The case against Miles Linklater, charged with stealing bicycles, was called up. He plead uot guiity and gave $400 trial to appe'ar for trial Oct. 9 and from day to day thereafter, with George Stevens as surety. Fred Brown and Emil Gola pleaded quietly of violating the liquor laws and were fiued$25.eacli, which tiues were paid. Another case against Emil Golz was nolle prossed. The appeal of Robert Sherwood, of Superior, convicted in Justice Bogardus' court of the larceny of some sheep, carne up and Sherwood furnished $300 bail with Thomas Newton as surety. In the uiurder trial of James Clifford Hand, of Ypsilanti, Thomas A. Bogle was appointed to assist the pros, ecuting attoruey and the case was set for trial for Monday next. The cases of the highway comrnist sioners of Aun Arbor vs. Jaines Sniith, and of William Biggs vs. Schuh & Muehlig, were continued on applica tion of the defendants. The Antcliffe cases were announced to have been aettled out of court. Twenty additional jurors were or dered to be drawn on account of the Hand murder case. The court then adjourned until Monday to give Judge Kinne an opportunity to close up the business of the Monroe term of court.