Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1906 — AN INTERESTING CASE. [ARTICLE]

AN INTERESTING CASE.

The State of Indiana vs. George Keister, proprietor of the Keister/ restaurant down on saloon row, was in progress before Sqpire Thornton at the court bouse as The Democrat went to press. Mr, Keister was arrested Wednesday on an affidavit sworn ont by Ruth Burris, a former dining room girl in the above restaurant, and oharging selling intoxicating liquors without a license. The particular offense charged is the selling of beer to Frank B. Myers, which is Postmaster Myers, of Rensselaer, on Jan. 11. Frank claims, we understand, that he bad bought the beer elsewhere and merely kept it at Keister’s to take when he felt sick, he being afflicted with somg chronic ailment, thirst, or something like that. A change of venne was taken from Squire Irwin and the case set for 10 a. m , before Sqnire Thornton, but at the hour set the defendant objected to the manner of selecting the jury, from the spectators present, and the case was continued until 2 p. m., and a jury summoned from about town.