Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1909 — THE YODERS ACQUITTED. [ARTICLE]

THE YODERS ACQUITTED.

The state case against Noah Yoder and wife of Jackson tp., Newton county, indicted by the grand jury on the charge of keeping a house, of ill fame, was tried in the Newton circuit court last week, occupying two days, and resulted in tm acquittal. Mrs. Ellen Rodgers, mother of the Yoder woman, who was arrested for shooting at Clarence Blankenship of Mt. Ayr while he was driving past the Yoder farmhouse, was also tried before the court and Judge Hanley held that the woman was guilty; that she was a degenerate, without property or a home, and the proper peifeon to he confined in the poor asylum, and sent her there.