Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1916 — Grand Jury Finds No Truth or Foundation For Charges [ARTICLE]

Grand Jury Finds No Truth or Foundation For Charges

State of’lndiana, County of Jasper, ss: In the Jasper Circuit Court, September Term, 1916. In the matter of the petition of John Hurley and twenty-seven others, asking that a grand jury be impanele<l to investigate the charges against D. S. Makeever and Jesse Nichols, relative to com being hauled from the county farm during the year 1915 to the farm of D. S. Makeever. We, the undersigned grand jurors, called to investigate the charges in the above entitled matter; beg leave to submit the following report; after being duly impaneled, all persons desiring to testify in said matter, were invited to appear before us, and after hearing all the evidence submitted relative to said charges we report that there is no truth or f oundation for the charges that the teams of D. S. Makeever and the teams of the county farm hauled corn from the said county farm to the home of the said Makeever, at any time during the year 19.15, and we exonerate them from such charges, and we ask that this report be spread in the records of the Jasper Circuit Court. . - Foreman. JOHN SCOTT, ■ O DAVID ZEIGLER, CLIFFORD BEVER, WM. SCOTT, PETER SHIDE.