To Jackson For Life

The May term of the circuit court opened Monday. Thb day was spent in oalling tbe rol] of the cases on the dooket. The case of the People vs Carlile .P McKinstry was plaoed at the foot of the docket; Anson Wright, charged with violation of the Jiquor law, pleaded guilty and paid a fine of $15 and costs; George Letter, oharged with the sanie crime was discharged ; the case against Theodore Burgess, charged with disturbing religions meeting, was nolle prossed. A. J. Sawyer, by order of the court, was employed to assist Prosecutor Kirk in prosecution of Larkins, Jones and Lyons, the Richards' suspects; the case against Hugh F. Shields, for violation of the liquor law, went over the term. Of the remaining cases on the docket nearly all were ready for trial. The first case callad on Tuesday morning was that of the People vs. John O'Grady, charged with committing a rape upon Miss Agnes Gurney last fall. The case went to the jury at noon and at 9 o'clock in the evening they returned to the court room and stated that they could not agree on a verdict, standing 8 to 4 for acquittal. The second case called was that against Robert McCourt, Clarence Brooks and Fred LeFountain, for the Drutal criminal assault on Mrs. Conrad Berg, a widow, aged T4 years, and ïer weak ruinded maiden daughter, aged 45 years, who lived in the townsbip of Bridgewater. An acoonnt of tbe oconrrenoe was published in the Argus, April 9. Brooks and LeFountain pleaded gcilty to assaolt aud McCourt pleaded uot gailty. The case was tried in less than au hour all tbe evideuce being that of Mrs. Berg to the faot that the assault was ooamjitfed aud that MoCourt was oue of the three and the evideoce of Brooks and LeFountain that McConrt was with tbein. McGourt took the stand and swore that he was uot present and kuew nothing of the assanlt. The jnry was ont bot a few aorueuts and rendered a verdict of guilty. McConrt was sentenced to Jackson for life, and Brooks to the sanie pkioe for 15 years. The testiinony showed that LeFuuutain, who is a married man, wbile he was present in the house with the other two, had taken no part in the assanlt. He was sentenced to one year at the Ionia house of correction. The case against Charles Estleman, of York, for arson, in having caused bis wife to sot flre to tbeir borne in that towu, in order that he inight obtain tbe large amount of insurance whioh he had placed on the house and its contents was on trial all day yesterday.