Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1919 — MURDER CASE TRIAL SET FOR SEPTEMBER 16. [ARTICLE]

MURDER CASE TRIAL SET FOR SEPTEMBER 16.

M. C. Mellon and Alex Cota, arrested at Monon March 22 on the charge of murder, will have a hearing in the White circuit court Tuesday, September 16, if a continuance does not intervene. Mrs. Pearl Graves, wife of Samuel Graves, was almost instantly killed Saturday afternoon, March 22, when she was run over .by a touring car in which there were four men. An aggravating phase of the tragedy was the fact that Mellon and Cota, two of the four occupants. wero said tobc intoxicated. They were held without bail, following a hearing before Justice Catlin, but were later given their liberty under habeus corpus proceedings.