Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1912 — The Mock Coart Trial. [ARTICLE]

The Mock Coart Trial.

Regarding the big mock court trial to be given in Ellis theatre, under the auspices of the Ladies’ Aid society of the Christian church, this evening, would say that the stage of the theatre will be laid out as a regular court room with all the accessories and the trial will be conducted in every respect with all the gravity of a supreme court session. The case will be handled on the exact lines of legal proceedure, but for all that will be so arranged that the two hours proceedings are likely to furnish the biggest bunch of merriment an audience has had in a long time. * Of course, all hearts will go out in tearful sympathy for the plaintiff, while as for the defendant, it Is enough to say that no one would ever have believed it The jury is distinguished Tenongh to rivet the attention of an audience for a whole evening, and are capable of being an entire show themselves. Altogether this mock court trial promises to be one of the events of the season, both* in the interest attached to it and in the crowd that will attend.