Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1886 — STRAYED OR STOLEN! [ARTICLE]

STRAYED OR STOLEN!

From the premises of the undersigned, in Jordan township, Jasper county, Ind., about the 19th of April last, a two-year old mare, dark bay or brown, about 15 hands high. Information that will lead to her recovery by the undersigned will be suitably rewarded. Address Henry P. Jones, Rensselaer, Jasper county, Ind.

Christopher Plath had arranged to take the morning train, Monday, az the beginning of his journey to Germany, but voted before he started ;and shortly afterwards was arrested on a warrant charging him with illegal voting. The old man has been in poor health this winter, and remained most of the time with his brother-in-law in Newton county, but his house and household goods were here, and this h claimed was his place of residence. The person who caused the airest claimed that he had lost his residence here, and hence the charge of illega* voting. He had a hearing before squire Pure ..pile, and was promptly acquitted. This prosecution seems to have been entirely unjustifiable and malicious.— Rensselaer Republican. Here is another example in which the editor of the Republican measures other people’s corn in his own half bushel. He evidently thinks that because nearly all his actions are controlled by hate and malice that others are prompted by the same cause. The arrest was made, we think, without any malice, and upon the firm conviction that Plath had voted illegally. In our opinion the testiny showed that when he left last October he expressed himself as going to his home, in Newton county,and that he informed several parties that Newton county was his place of residence. The testimony further showed that he had told parties here that he had no right to vote at this place, as he had lost his residence. Considering all the testimony and all the 'Circumstances, we think he was not a legal voter. *