Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1908 — MORE MISREPRESENTATIONS. [ARTICLE]

MORE MISREPRESENTATIONS.

The Republican attempts to make it appear that the jury in the ‘Tiber* case against the editor of this paper, tried at Kentland Tuesday, stood 11 to 1 for conviction. This is false as can be, and Is Inspired by the persecution. The jury stood 11 to 1 for acquittal all night long and so stood when discharged, a fact which la well known in Kentlaad, by the court and Others, and was told to th£ writer by a gentleman who was in a position .at all times to know precisely how it stood. He also stated that the Jury could have reached a compromise verdict in no time, a finding of technical guilt and fining of |5 and acquitting defendant of all coats, but the jurors did not think eleven men should * yield to one man. Another lie. Intended To create predjbdice against The Democrat editor, is that he had written the prbsecuting witness and threatened him with dire things if he returned here to prosecute. We have never written him a line directly or indirectly. Falsehoods and misrepresentations are the stock in trade of the republican machine here.