Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1910 — COURT RELEASES CONDUCTOR [ARTICLE]

COURT RELEASES CONDUCTOR

Finds That Killing of Refractory Passenger Was in Self-Defense. Fort Wayne, Ic’d., Nov. 25.—Joseph E. Kiser, the street car conductor who killed M. E. Siegmond, a passenger, by a blow with a switch hook, was acquitted in a preliminary hearing. It was shown that he acted in self-de-fense. The trouble arose over the collection of Siegmond’s fare.