Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1911 — HUBBARD AND DAY ARE FREED [ARTICLE]

HUBBARD AND DAY ARE FREED

Alleged Chicken Thieves Acquitted at Kentland Monday A NUMBER OF WITNESSES Summoned But Evidence Not Sufficient to Convict, In Opinion of Jury, After Four Hours Deliberation —George Ade, the Playwright, Was One of the Jurors. < The case of the state of Indiana Vs. Day and Hubbard of near Lee, who have been confined in jail here for several weeks on the -charge of chicken stealing near Lee recently, was tried in Kentland Monday, Mose Leopold defending the prisoners. Some thirty state witnesses , were in attendance from the vicinity of Lee, but not all were used. Parties here who heard the prosecution’s side the case thought a conviction w’ould result, but The Democrat called up Deputy Sheriff Van Dyke at Kentland yesterday noon and he stated that the defendants were, turned loose. The case went to the jury, he said, about five o’clock Monday afternoon and the verdict of acquittal was returned about 9:30 p. m., which would indicate that the jurors were not all of the same opinion for a long time. George Ade of Brook, * the noted author and playwright, was a member of the jury.