Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1914 — REMINGTON PEOPLE SIM IN DEPOT [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON PEOPLE SIM IN DEPOT

Reynolds Station Harbored Twenty Persons Who Tried to Reach Rensselaer Monday.

Twenty Remington citizens spent Monday night in the depot at Reynolds, some catching an occasional nap while sitting in the crowded little station and others not getting a wink of sleep. They were all interested in the cases of the State of Indiana vs. Orin Lucas and George Reed, two Remington men who are charged with having violated the blind pig liquor laws of the state. The case had been set for trial Monday, but the roads between this city and Remington were so drifted with snow that passage was impossible and two rigs that started across country were forced to give it up and turn back. The morning east bound train on the Pennsylvania road through Remington did not get along until 3 o’clock in the afternoon. It had been stuck in a snow bank just east of Goodland, The west bound train was also stuck - in the same drift of snow and neither could get forward nor backward. Finally two freight engines from Loganspoirt’ managed to push the west bound train through the snow and then the east bound passenger got through. The Remington people expected to make connections at Reynolds with a train for Rensselaer but learned after reaching that city that there were no trains running on the Monon and as all hotel rooms at Reynolds had been engaged there was nothing to do but to spend the night in the depot. The tired crowd reached Rensselaer on the milk train this Tuesday morning and it was about an hour late. After their arrival the defendants filed affidavit for a change of venue and the case was sent to Newton county for trial. In the crowd of Remington people who had remained up all night was J. H. Biddle, a venerable citizen of Remington who is interested in the prosecution as a member of the Good Citizen’s League of Remington. He had a chance to get a bed in the hotel at Reynolds but the room was cold and the covers scarce and he thought it best to remain up at the* station. The return trip was made with less dfficulty, south bound passenger train No. 33, due here at 2 o’clock, coming in an hour late and making connections at Monon and Reynolds so that the Remingtonians will get home tonight. The jurymen were also delayed in getting here, some not arriving until today. As the state cases against Lucas and Reed were sent to Kentland for trial and the cases against Eugene Kirk, of Newton county, were continued, the jury was dismissed until Wednesday. Four state cases against Eugene Kirk, of Newton county, have been hanging fire for a year. Kirk lives on a farm near Mt. Ayr. A yqar ago in January, D. K. of Roselawn, missed a new Birdsell wagon from his implement shed. He tried in a quiet way to learn what had become of it and along In April some one tipped him off that there was a new Birdsell wagon in Kirk’s barn and that it had been partly painted over. Mr. Frye secured Sheriff Dowling, of Kentland, and went to Kirk’s farm and got the wagon. Kirk is said not to have objected and the state case charging larceny is the result. Other cases are based upon charges made by Mrs. Jennie Conrad, also of Newton county. Mrs. Conrad was unable to attend the trial today and the case was postponed for the term just before a lot of the witnesses arrived.