Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1907 — SOME NEW BOARDERS AT THE O'CONNOR "HOTEL." [ARTICLE]

SOME NEW BOARDERS AT THE O'CONNOR "HOTEL."

Young Brouhard of Fair Oaks, who for the past two or three months has been the only guest of Sheriff O’Connor—at Newton county’s expense—on charges preferred by the parents of a 13-year-old girl by the name of Parish, north of Mt. Ayr, has this week been given company in the person of Lot Stoudtof Remington, Mack Steele of Gifford and James German of near Pleasant Ridge. Stoudt, who is about 26 years of age, is charged with paternity by a Miss Gertrude Clouse, a girl probably about 19 years of age, also of Remington, and was bound over to the circuit court in default of S4OO bonds. Steel is ayoung'man 19 years of age and resides at Gifford. With some other young men he is charged with disturbing a literary up there, and is also charged with carrying concealed weapons. He was arraigned before Squire Irwin Wednesday and plead guilty to the former charge and was fined $5 and costs, $23 in all, which be is laying out in jail. To the latter charge he plead not guilty, and the case is set for trial at 10 a m., today, before Squire Irwin. Another party or two who were concerned in disturbing the meeting for which young Steele was arrested have taken “leg bail,” it is said. German is charged with intoxication, and it is the second arrest made in Rensselaer on this charge since the saloons went out of business, nearly three months ago, and in both arrests the liquor was bought elsewhere than here. He was fined $5 and costs, $13.10 in all, by Squire Irwin on a plea of guilty. The amount was staid jvith Boyd Porter as surety. German bad been up to Roselawn, it appears, having gone there for the principal purpose of getting drunk, and blew in here on the milk train Wednesday evening. He is said to have had nearly three pints of the Roselawn brand of liquor in his pockets when arrested, besides the large load that he carried internally.