Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1905 — THE "POLICE COURT” GRIST. [ARTICLE]

THE "POLICE COURT” GRIST.

A quartet of drunk and disorderlies were gathered in Saturday night and lodged in jail. Guy Peacock, Abe Stone, John Knight and E. Hoyt were gathered in for intoxication and flighting, the ‘‘scrap” occuring in front of the Keister restaurant at an hour when peacable people were in bed and asleep. In the melee a window was broken in the front of the restaurant. The participants were arraigned before squire Irwin Sunday and Monday, and fixed out as follows: Abe Stone, fine and costs for intoxication, $10.75; for profanity, $5.75. J. Knight, intoxication, $10.75. Peacock, assault and battery, $14.75; intoxication, $12.30. Hoyt, intoxication, 11.85; the case against him for assault and battery being dismissed. Hoyt is a traveling pressmanmachinist who has been doing some work in repairing and overhauling the Journal and Republican presses, and on the intercession of the Journal editor a part of the costs were thrown off in Hoyt’s case and he paid the balance. Marshall interceded for Peacock, who is a printer employed by the former, and he was released Thursday, all costs being thrown oft in his case also. Knight and Stone, having no friends with a pull to intercede in their behalf, are still in jail serving out their fines and costs. Emery White of Demotte had a preliminary hearing before Squire Irwin Thursday on the charge of stealing some fixtures of a traction engine. It seems White had bought a saw # mill of M. D. Carr some time ago, and claimed he was to have the old traction engine in the deal, and recently took some of the fixtures from same, he not having moved the engine previously. White was discharged. A warrant was sworn out before Squire Irwin Thursday by Robert Meeker, an old soldier, charging William Hurley of Barkley, tp., wtth having stolen $lO from him. Meeker and Hurley have been batching this winter up in Barkley, and the ten dollars is a part of the former’s pension which he charges Hurley with having taken. Hurley has not been arrested at this writing,