Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1908 — VIOLATION OF QUARANTINE. [ARTICLE]

VIOLATION OF QUARANTINE.

School Teacher, Fined by Justice, will Appeal the Case. Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 15.—Justice . Roy C. Street, who heard the evidence in the case of the State of Indiana against Benjamin F. Rynearson, the West Point school principal accused of violating the quarantine rules, has decided that Rynearson was guilty of such violation, and has assessed a fine of $lO and costs. The case has attracted much attention. Rynearson refused to abide by the orders of the county health officer and Insisted on appearing on the streets after he pearing on thme streets • after he had been exposed to smallpox. He declared that since there was no case in his family he had a right to go out. Rynearson gave notice that he would appeal to the Circuit Court.