Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1903 — EIGHTEEN INDICTMENTS. [ARTICLE]

EIGHTEEN INDICTMENTS.

Grand Jury Adjourns After a Week's Session. The grand jury adjourned Saturday after returning 18 indictments and making the usual visit to the poor asylum and jail. They reported the latter in good condition, etc,, but recommended a different system of heating the poor asylum. Of tbs indictments returned, 4 were against E. E. Preble, proprietor of the Rensselaer pool and bowling alley, and one against Arthur Hall of Fair Oaks, for allowing minors to play pool in their places of business; 6 against J. G. Moritz, late proprietor of a saloon at Kersey, for selling intoxicants to minors; 1 for petit larceny; 1 for larceny and embezzlement, and the others for minor misdemeanors, arrests not having been made at this writing and therefore the indictments are not made public. Hall plead guilty and was fined $5 and costs; Preble plead guilty on two counts and was given a like fine, bat the oth&r two he will fight it is rumored; Moritz learned that indictments had been returned against him and came in and surrendered himself before the warrant was served. His trial was held Wednesday, but the jury failed to agree and the cases were all continued until next term,