Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1919 — COTA AND MELLIN ARE HELD WITHOUT BAIL [ARTICLE]

COTA AND MELLIN ARE HELD WITHOUT BAIL

The preliminary hearing of the cases of Mike Mellin and Alexander Cota, of Wolcott, who were charged with murder in the first degree following the automobile accident at Mionon Saturday night and which suited in the killing of Mrs. Samuel Graves, was giveij before Justice of the Peace Catlin at Monon Wednesday. The court found that the men should be bound over to the circuit court, and will be held without bail and returned to the White county jail on the charge-of first degree murder until their trial shall come up in the White circuit court, the date for the trial to be set later. Cota and Mellin were taken back to Monticello Wednesday afternoon. There' were four witnesses for the state. The defense had no witnesses in the hearing held Wednesday. The evidence of the state showed that the car which was occupied by Mellin and Cota was traveling at the rate of twenty miles an hour when it struck Mrs. Graves.