Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1918 — ATTENDED SUNDAY COURT INSTEAD OF SARBATH SCHOOL [ARTICLE]
ATTENDED SUNDAY COURT INSTEAD OF SARBATH SCHOOL
Special sessions of the courts of Squire S. C. Irwin and Mayor C. G. Spitler were convened Sunday to attend to cases growing out of a visit to Beaverville, IJi. Mike McAvoy was found Saturday night in an automobile by Nightwatch Richards and was hiked to jail for safekeeping until the convening Sunday morning of the court Of Squire Irwin. When brought before the bar of justice he plead guilty to being (drunk and was fined sl-00, which with the necessary trimmings amounted to 310.70. McAvoy was found in the automobile belonging to Charles Brusnahan, and in the car .there was reported to have also been found a supply of whiskey and beer, which it is alleged had been secured at Beaverville. Brusnahan was taken before Mayor Spitler Sunday morning and was found guilty of being unlawfully possessed of booze. He was fined SIOO and given'a thirty days jail sentence, and the costs amounted to $35.00. The jail sentence was suspended.
