Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1904 — ARRESTED FOR DESTURBING A PUBLIC GATHERING. [ARTICLE]

ARRESTED FOR DESTURBING A PUBLIC GATHERING.

On an affidavit sworn out by Mr. Dillon, the nightwatch, James Brenner, Hugh Kirk, Hurley Beam, Booby Tuteur, John Robinson, Harry Eger, and Senior Hopkins, all high school boys, were arrested Thursday evening, charged with creating a disturbance at the home of Henry O. Harris Tuesday evening. It seems that it has grown to be a fad among some of the high school boys to get around where any party is in progress and make away with the refreshments before they can be served to the guests, and it is supposed that this was the program Tuesday night. Miss Marcelene Roberts was entertaining her girl classmates at the home of her grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Harris, Tuesday night when a crowd of boys appeared on the scene and acted in a very rude, insolent and boisterous manner; pushing open doors, giving their foot-ball yell, etc. After ordering the boys away and suffering from their rude actions for some time, the nightwatch was telephoned to and on arriving on the scene caught the boys red-handed A warrant was sworn out before Squire Irwin, as above stated, and a hearing will be had this morning at 9 o’clock. The boys range in age from 15 to 18 years, probably.