Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1904 — COURT HOUSE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS.

Items of Interest (lathered In the Offices of the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court will convene Monday. —o — Marriage licenses issued: Sept. 23, Garland Grant to Jessie G. Makeever. —o — Another indictment retnrned by the grand jury was that against Mrs. Mattie Morlan, of Rensselaer, charged with keeping house of iil fame. The endorsement on the warrant in this case shows that it came to hand Sept. 23, and the arrest was not made until Sept. 2ti. In default of bond ($100), defendant was ordered committed to jail, but later Sheriff Hardy accepted a bond signed by A. G. Hardy, C. C. Warner and Abraham Halleck, and defendant was not taken to jail. The case is set for trial next Monday at 1 p. m. —o— THE CIRCUIT COURT. State vs Frank Wallace, charged with rape; case set for fourth Wednesday at 9 a. m. In the criminal cases against Alfred McCoy, charging embezzlement, bond was fixed at S3OO in each of the twenty cases and defendant furnished cash bond, amounting all told to sfi,ooo. Mary E. E. Deveraux Conrad Kellner et al; action for damages for injuries to plaintiff’s husband some two years ago while under influence of liquor alleged to have been sold him by defendant; dismissed by plaintiff. In the case of the state vs. Blain and Melvin Wood et al., the “riot” case tried in ’Squire Troxell’s court recently and from which defendants appealed to the circuit court after having been found guilty and fined, the jury brought in a verdict of not guilty. The road case of Wm. P. Baker vs. Gowland was tried Saturday and resulted in a verdict for the road, the jury holding that Mr. Baker was as much benefitted as damaged by the opening of the proposed highway. The justice of the verdict is questioned by many familiar with the facts. M. O. Gant vs Olive M. Spriggs, action to recover possession of insurance policies on the life of the late L.S. Gant; jury trial and verdict for defendant. M. O. Gant is named as beneficiary in the policies, and it is not likely that the insurance companies will pay to anyone else, although there may be further litigation over the matter. Motion for a new trial will be made in this case, we learn. All of the 22 cases against A. McCoy and T. J. McCoy were taken out of the county on change of venue asked for by defendants, 11 being sent to White county and 11 to the Lake Superior court at Hammond. Only two indictments were returned against Walter White, the cashier of the McCoy bank, and they will be tried here, by a special judge, the regular judge being disqualified by reason of having been a depositor in the defunct bank.