Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1910 — “FARMER” HOPKINS FINED, BUT PROTESTED INNOCENCE. [ARTICLE]

“FARMER” HOPKINS FINED, BUT PROTESTED INNOCENCE.

WeU Known Farmer Charged With Having Imbibed too Freely and Assessed Five and Costs. •- - - “I/deny it all, but I might ad well pay the fine as they will stick it to me any how,” said “Farmer” Hopkins when Squire Irwin assessed him $5 and costs, amounting to $9.15, for beIpg drunk. The evidence seems to show that our old friend, whose conduct of recent years has been very good, was really guilty. Word reached the Rensselaer Garage Friday evening that the “Farmer” had run into the ditch east of town on the Pleasant Ridge road and needed help. A machine was dispatched to the scene of trouble and it did not prove a very hard job to get the machine back into the road but it was a difficult matter to get its owner into the machine. It is said that it was necessary to tie him into the machine to prevent his falling out. After the garage was reached “Farmer” indulged in some boisterous talk and used language that didn’t sound very well to our new nightwatch. When admonished that he had better keep still he defied the officer and was promptly and properly taken to jail, where he was kept over night. In the morning he couldn’t remember that he had done anything out of the way and objected to the fine, but paid it any way. He claimed that hd either lost, or had stolen from him, his pocketbook containing about S9O. It was an unfortunate day for “Farmer.”