Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1902 — CIRCUIT COURT ECHOES. [ARTICLE]

CIRCUIT COURT ECHOES.

Laura Steele, who testified one way in the preliminary hearing of the Lewis-Fay rape case and an entirely different way in the circuit court, at the regular trial, was arrested last Saturday for perjury on an affidavit made by James Fay. On a plea of guilty, the girl’s mother showing that the girl was not 16 years of age until August 24 next, the court withdraws judgement and sentence on said defendant, and required the mother to report at the September term the conduct and behavior of said defendant. George W. Brown & Co., vs. Marion W. Phelps et al; judgement for plaintiff $204. Allie Crawford was granted a divorce from Eliza Crawford. Appeal bond with Ben Hart, principal, and John Johnson and Charles Miller as sureties, was filed in the Hart vs. Sigman case from Jordan tp., and the case will go to the supreme court. Raridon vs. Raridon, the Brookston divorce case sent here from White county, was continued by the court, none of the parties appearing.