Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1914 — CHICKEN PURLOINER ESCAPES PUNISHMENT [ARTICLE]

CHICKEN PURLOINER ESCAPES PUNISHMENT

Deputy Ross Tailed to Prove Venue •and Court Gave Instructions In Archer’s Favor.

Attorney Ross, of Kentland, acting as deputy prosecutor case of the state against John Archer, charged with stealing chickens, failed to prove venue in the case and after the state’s evidence was all in, Attorney Halleck, for the defense, pointed out the fact that it had not been proven that the alleged act of chicken stealing had 'been committed in Jasper county and asked for a preemptory instruction to the jury to bring in a verdict for acquittal- This was done. There was talk of .filing another affidavit against Archer, charging him with forgery, based upon the allegation that the check he received when the chickens were sold was drawn in a fictitious name and endorsed by him in that name. Archer had already served 4 months in jail and this was probably sufficient punishment for the crime. His brother, Clifford, was sent to the state reformatory for one to seven years. •Mr. and Mrs. F. X. Busha, who have been in the west for several months, arrived here Saturday to visit her parents, Mr and Mrs. W. H. Beam, and are now visiting his relatives in Lafayette. The Round Table Club and a few guests were entertained in a very delightful manner last evening at the home of Mayor and Mrs. Charles G. Spitler7 T Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hardman and Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe were joint entertainers. _ Mrs. Felix Erwin, of Fair Oaks, is attending the Rebekah convention and visiting the family of N. Little field. She reports that the scarlet fever patients at Fair Oaks are re covering and there seems no prospect of a spread of the disease. Mrs. Stella Ketchum left yesterday for Indianapolis, where she will join a large party of Daughters of the American Revolution and start on a tour of Egypt and the Holy Land. She will also visit Italy and France and be absent for about three months. H. C. Montay, of Newland, returned yesterday from a business trip to Madison, Ohio. He will engage in the implement business at Newland, handling onion drills and He says that farmers in ihe southeastern part OTihSiana and in Ohio were plowing. The Delphi Daily Herald under its new management is showing some signs of improvement and this will doubtless be more marked % when the mechanical equipment of the paper is improved, which is to be done at once. A new linotype is to be installed by Feb. 25th. Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, former teacher in the Rensselaer schools, now a writer of ability, will address the members of the ladies’ literary society and their husbands and a number of guests, including former pupils of Mrs. McCarter in this city, and the school teachers, this Evening at the home of Mrs. Mary E. Thompson. It is probable than one hundred and fifty will be present to hear Mrs. McCarter’s lecture on ‘The Heart of a Child.”