Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1912 — Shelby Druggist Acquitted; Insufficient Evidence. [ARTICLE]

Shelby Druggist Acquitted; Insufficient Evidence.

W. N. Boyer, the Shelby druggist was arrested several days ago, charged with having trespassed on the Northern Indiana Land Co.’s premises, was aquitted by Squire Irwin Thursday after he had' heard the evidence. Boyer did not deny having hunted in that vicinity, but the Kankakee has been declared a navigable stream and at the time of the alleged trespassing it was several miles wide and the defense expected to maintain that a permit was unnecessary as it was impossible to locate the channel proper at that time. The state failed to make a case against the defendant.