People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — Dr. Fraker May Escape Trial. [ARTICLE]

Dr. Fraker May Escape Trial.

Richmond, Mo., May 2p.—The celebrated Fraker case reached an abrupt end Tuesday morning so far as the present term of the Ray circuit court is concerned. As soon as the case was called on Monday the attorney for the defendant entered a motion to quash the indictments. Without leaving his bench, Judge Broaddus sustained the motion in the first and third oounts of the first indictment and took others under advisement. Tuesday he sustained the motion to quash counts two, four and five of the first indictment. The state immediately took an appeal to the supreme court.