Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1918 — COURT OF INQUIRY MEETS HERE TOMORROW [ARTICLE]

COURT OF INQUIRY MEETS HERE TOMORROW

A court of inquiry into the death of zEarl Hughes, of Monon, a Monon brakeman, whose body was found on the Monon tracks near Pleasant Ridge last Friday morning, will ba held here Friday morning, according to an announcement made by C. M. Sands, deputy prosecut: ng attorney for Jasper and Newton counties. It is said three witnesses will be called —’Special Monon Officer John Weinhardt, of Monon; Dan Hartnett, a switchman who rode in the caboose attached to train No. 45, the one on which Brakeman Hughes was employed the night he met his death, and . a brakeman who was employed on the train. The inquiry will be- held before S. C. Irwin, justice of the peace. The Jasper county circuit court does not convene until the second week in November and a grand jury could not be called until that time.