Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1917 — McCoysburg Pair Assessed $12.70 Each in -Justice Court. [ARTICLE]

McCoysburg Pair Assessed $12.70 Each in -Justice Court.

Monon News. / Claude Jackson, blacksmith, and Arthur Taylor, ofJdcCoysburg, were, each assessed $127/0 in Squire Gatlin’s c6urt Wednesday night, for being drunk and disorderly. Of this sum in all is dignified by going to the school fund, and the remainder is for trimmings. Jackson was arrested in the Hayes & Coots store, where he had been raising a disturbance, and gave the marshal a merry tussle before he was landed in the cooler. Taylor rafi amuck of Nightwatch Wilson as he emerged from the alley near the store. He undertook the same antics as Jackson, but was made docile by a tap from Wilson’s mace. Both pleaded not guilty while their evidence established guilt. Jaoksrift amused the crowd of spectators by his sallies of humor while on the witness stand. When asked by H. C. Thompson, wlho appeared for; thg prosecution, if he did not have a j quart of whiskey on his person, he j replied that he had a quart .bottle but it was not full. Asked where he obtained the whiskey he said he brought it with him/. He insisted on settling his fine when the booze was returned to him, but the court refused to comply. The maudlin condition of the men when tried left no douibt about their intoxication.