Clarkston Advertiser • September 14, 1894

September (1894) Term Of Court

A Big Calendar with 76 Cases, 24 Criminal and 15 Divorces


The September circuit court calendar includes 24 criminal cases nd 52 civil cases, of which 15 are suits for divorce. The criminal cases are as follows: People vs Lucien H. Cypher, larceny of bicycle; same larceny of buggy; People vs Edgar King, burglary; People vs JOhn Sprague, perjury; People vs Eugene Ostrander, perjury; People vs Ray Bosebark, perjury; People vs Robert Kyle, perjury; People vs Geo. A. Tyler, embezzlement; People vs Herman W. Bailey, embezzlement; People vs Nick Younger, sale of liquor to minors; People vs Joel McWethy, assault with intent to do great bodily harm; People vs Fred Cramer, burglary' People vs John McMahon, Assault with intent to commit rape, People vs Jesse Botsford, arson; People vs Augustus T. Cross, burglary; People vs Grant and Delevan Johns, Obtaining money by false pretenses; People vs Lewis Livingston, larceny; People vs Mary Mattison, keeping a house of ill-fame; People vs Charles Calkins, leasing a house for the purpose of prostitution; People vs Martin H. Welds, violation of liquor law; People vs George Hammond, obtaining money by false pretenses; People vs Sam C. Axford, assault and battery; People vs Edwin Ryan and Edwin Clark, burglary; People vs Michael Loew, not closing a saloon. The divorce cases are as follows: Kittie vs Fred Kyle; Sarah M. vs Adon S. Taft; Julia E. vs Edmund L. Wormer and Cornelius Losey; George W. vs Catherine B. Allen; Orvilla C. vs Thomas O. Edwards; Samuel H. vs Elizabeth A. McBride; Clara E. vs James W. McFadden; Emma J. vs Aldice E. Snyder; Mary E. vs Clarence D. Richards; Myrtie vs Nathan Simmons; Anna vs Charles Uplegger; Ida E. vs Samuel Ketchum; Eliza vs Thomas J. Jones; Cora vs Mark H. Vowles; Myrtie A. vs James T. Carey. It will be seen that the "gentler sex" composes the plaintiffs in thirteen out of fifteen cases - Pontiac Post