Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1915 — Keener Township Man Is Charged With Criminal Assault. [ARTICLE]

Keener Township Man Is Charged With Criminal Assault.

David B. Gleason, who is about 35 years of age and married, was placed under arrest in Keener township Wednesday by Constable Knipp, of that township. He is charged with criminal assault on the person of Mrs. Albert Crawford, who filed the affidavit that resulted in the arrest. She alleges that on the night of July 16th Gleason came to her home and informed her that his wife was ill and asked her to come and stay with her while he went to Thayer to procure medietoe. She got into the car with him, according to her story at the preliminary hearing before Squire John Greve at DeMotte, Wednesday. She says that he did not take her to his house but told her that his story was just a bluff and that he turned off the road into the woods and tried to enforce improper relations. She said that he did not accomplish his purpose and that he exacted a promise that she would not tell either her husband or his wife and that with that understanding he took her back home. She told her husband and later told Mrs. Gleason and then came to Rensselaer to prefer the charges. Gleason did not make any statement at the trial. Justice Greve bound him over to the circuit court in the sum of S3OO, and he was released when A 1 Konovsky signed the bond. He was represented by Attorney Halleck. The state was represented by Deputy Prosecutor Sands. Mrs. Crawford is the mother of four children.