Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1911 — Newton County Jury Clears Men Charged With Chicken Thefts. [ARTICLE]

Newton County Jury Clears Men Charged With Chicken Thefts.

Joe Hubbard and William Day, the Lee men who were charged with stealing chickens from J. D. Miller, of Hanging Grove township, were tried In Newton county Monday and were acquitted. The jury was out some four or five hours and there was evidently some doubt in the mind ot some of the jurymen about the innocense of the parties. Prosecutor Longwell appeared for the state and Moses Leopold for the defendants. About thirty witnesses, largely from Lee, were summoned.