Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1911 — USED BOTH AUTO AND MULE POWER. [ARTICLE]

USED BOTH AUTO AND MULE POWER.

Sheriff Hoover was up in the north end of the county Monday summoning jurors, also subpoenaing witnesses in the incest case against Joseph H. McColly, set for trial next Monday. John M. Knapp took him up there in an auto, and they were- through all sorts of counrry. In going through a big pasture they .got into a slough and the auto sunk down to the axles. They saw a boy plowing not far away and they got him to hitch one of his mules on the machine. The mule was a young animal and rather small. He was not used to such work and refused to budge. John seized hold of the auto 'horn and gave it a few toots, and say 1 that mule would have been running yet if John hadn’t been able to weight him down Ipy applying the auto brakes. The sheriff succeeded in serving all his papers and got back to Wheatfield just in time to receive a prisoner, Wm. Brandenburg, who had just been bound over to court by Squire Van Doozer on the charge of forging some small checks on Wheatfield merchants. He brought Brandenburg back with him and he is how in jail in default of SSOO bonds.