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VOLUME I FALLS CITY , NEBRASKA , FRIDAY , OCTOBER 14 , 1904. NUMBER 41
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If"THE FACTS IN THE POOL CASE tI
Ever since C. F. Reavis put a label on Martins political
ambitions and placed them on the shelf with the rest of the
fossils , the Falls City Journal has never lost an opportunity
to direct the batteries of its slander upon him. Last week
in an article _ on the Pool case they resorted to the usual prac-
tice of falsehood and abuse.Ve would not notice this
\ . screed if it were not for the fact that a county official ( the
F - county attorney ) tries to befog the public mind on the real
issue. We therefore print the facts.
This woman , Ida Pool beat a little child until his life was
despaired of. A complaint was made and the woman bound
' over to the district court. The county attorney at the last term
. _ . . 9f the district court dismissed the case. The Journal says
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, . . , ( l . ) he did it because the complaint was bad , of course everybody
: ' 2 $ . . ' . " . ktlows that the county attorney is the ostensible editor of the
r Journal , and most people know that the little shrimp would
I' not know the difference between a good and a bad complaint.
The truth of the matter is that the complaint had nothing to
dwith the dismissal of this case as the following signed
statement will disclose.
Dawson , Oct. 7th 1904.
"At the request of the citizens of Dawson I tried to reach the
county attorney by telephone and get him to argue not to dismiss
the criminal case against Ida Pool for beating the child Willie 'War-
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. ren. I was unsucessful in this hut did talk over the telephone at
7:30 : o'clock in the e'eningvith \ his father F. Martin who told me
'M the had not been dismissed. I him
( case told to tell the county attorney -
torney not to dismiss the case and we would be there by nine o'clock
the next morning. He , Judge Martin said Hall right , I will see
him. At eleven o'clock the same night the attorney phoned me he
had dismissed the case. I asked him way : he did s. ) . He said , "WE
. HAD NO EVIDENGE AND WE COULD NOT HOLD HER. "
F. P. Page.
The Journal article written either by the county attorney
or his paranoiac father says that the "parties became dissat-
isfied and employed C. F. Reavis and raised the money to
r pay him. How Mr. Reavis came to be employed in the case
is a matter on which everyone is at liberty to draw their own
conclusion. " This is an insinuation that Reavis created the
the dissatisfaction and solicited the employment. The parties
did not become dissatisfied until the county attorney dismissed -
ed the case over this protest. The source of the Reavis employment -
. , ployment is disclosed by the following :
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Dawson , Oct. 7th 1904.
I , at the request of the citizens of Dawson employed C. F.
Reavis to prosecute the case against Ida Pool for beating William
Warren.
a I went to the office of Mr. Reavis in Falls City for this purpose.
Any insinuation or statement that Mr. Reavis solicited such employment -
ployment is utterly false.
\ , . W. B. Alexander.
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= F Da wson , Oct. 7th 1904.
' - I sent a petition signed by nearly every citizen of Dawson of all
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' . Barn Burns.
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' The fine barn of James Stewart
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who lives on the Salem road was
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destroyed by fire Saturday night
} r- about nine o'clock. Forty tons
( of tame hay and other property
was burned. No cause is known
for the fire but incendiarism is
sug-gested. Vve regret this loss
as Mr. Stewart is an industrious
! man who can ill afford the loss.
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Political Meetings.
C. F. Red-vis and county candi-
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dates will be at Dawson , October
20-Barada , November 2nd-Ara-
go , November 3rd. Norris Brown
candidate for attorney general
and F. W. Collins of Washington
D. C at Falls City November 5th.
This will be the closing meeting
of the campaign and no doubt
wilt be a rousing one. F.V. .
Collins is one of the best orators
in the : department of justice and
everybody knows that Norris
Brown is i without a peer in Ne-
braska.
political parties praying Judge Ke11igar to appoint C.F. Reavis to ,
prosecute the case against Ida Pool instead of F' ' E. Martin the ,
county attorney who had dismissed the case. This petition was \ .
signed by seventy of the most prominent citizens of our town. The . . .t'
reason that we employed I \ Ir. Reavis was that the crime was a bad \ "
one and we wanted the case tried. E. W. Buser.
The Journal article goes on to say that notwithstanding ,
the people of Dawson employed him , "Reavis is drawing "
$25.00 from the county treasury for this work in addition to \ '
WHAT HE GOT FRaNC TI-IE DAWSON PEOPLE. " i\
This is about as near the truth as the Martins can come
when they speak of C. F. Reavis. They have the Reavis- \ ,
phobia. The Dawson people did contract to pay Reavis , w
but Judge KeIligar evidently thought it an outrage that individuals - K
dividuals should be compelled to pay the salary of a worth- { '
less county attorney and then employ and pay a lawyer to \
do his work , so he made an allowance of $25.00 to Reavis f
to prosecute the case. So far as Reavis drawing pay from
both sides is concerned it is a question of veracity between
the mud mill across the street and the gentlemen who sign
the following :
Dawson , Oct. 7th 1904
Immediately after the jury had returned the verdict finding Ida
Pool guilty of beating Willie Warren , C. F. Reavis caned us up and
informed us of this fact and notwithstanding the citizens of Dawson
had contracted to pay his fpe for prosecuting her , he stated that
Judge Ke11igar had allowed him $25 for his services AND WHILE IIJ !
WAS 'fO GET MORE FUOM THE CITIZENS of Dawson he would not ac- !
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cept any money. besides this $25 allowed by the court. This was .
voluntary on his part as no one asked him to throw off the fee from
the people of this town. The statement that he received both the
fees from the county and the citizens of this town is utterly false.
Dr. J. A. Waggener
W. B. Alexander
E. W. Buser
1' P. Page.
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The Journal article further says that the defendant Ida
Pool agreed to plead guilty to assault and battery.
The statement in the Journal that Ida Pool offered to plead
guilty to assault and battery is false. I will agree to give $500 to
the Journal or any other charitable institution if they will procure a
signed statement from either E. Falloon or C. Gillespie ( the wom-
man's attorneys ) that any such an offer was suggested or intimated
to me by any one. I did hear after the trial that the woman made
this offer to the county attoneyand I marvelled when I heard it at
his choosing rather to dismiss the case. C. F. Reavis.
These are the facts in the Pool case. The only criminal .
case that has been tried in two veal's. But two reasons can
be offered by the county attorney for his conduct in dismiss-
ing .case for the want of evidence when another lawyer l con-
victed her upon that evidence. One of these reasons is
founded in incompetency , the other in dishonesty. Between
them the attorney must choose and between them the public
has reached its judgment.
K. L. of S. Installation.
The regular meeting of the K.
L. of S. was held last Thursday
night , October 6th , in camp
quarters in the Wahl building.
A good number of the members
were present and assisted in installing -
stalling the following officers ; C.
Hendricks , P. , Mrs. Culp , V. P. ,
Mrs. McMahan , S. V. P. , Mrs.
Hendricks , Pr. , May McCreery ,
C. , Hattie Mettz , F. S. , Mrs.
Macomber. C. S. , Mrs. Kirkpat-
rick , T. , Benj. Slagel , S. , Mrs.
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Cornell , G. , Elva Scars , O.Della
Noah , A. O. After the usual
ceremonies and obligations the
members adjourned to the dining
room where a feast had been pre-
pared. It is needless to remark
that it received ample attention
and at a late hour the e present
returned to their homes , having
enjoyed a most pleasant evening.
Mrs. G. J. Crook andv. , B.
Smucker who left a week ago fern
Oklahoma were delayed in route
for a week by high water. . _