Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1911 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs from the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized— Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. Commissioners’ court convenes Monday in regular monthly ses-i sion. Judge Wason was Over from Monticello yesterday to sit in some cases in which he is special judge. • ■' —o—- ' Five marriage licenses were issued last month, against 15 for the preceding month and 9 for the corresponding month of 1910. —o— / Justice slipped another cog at Denver, Colo.. Wednesday when a jury acquitted Mrs. Gertrude Patterson of the cold blooded murder of her husband. —o— Court adjourned at Lafayette Wednesday at 3 o’clock p. m. for Thanksgiving, taking 'up again the Poole murder trial yesterday. The trial will probably be completed next week. o— ; Marriage licenses issued: Nov. 29, John Frederick Jones of Cambridge, Ohio, aged 26, occupation roll tuner in bar mill, to Alice Drake of Rensselaer, age.d 25, occupation school teacher. • ' -o Court item in Monticello Journal: “Henry Haughman and his pal who- were arrested over near Reynolds for the burglarizing of a hardware store in .Monon some weeks ago, were found guilty and given from two to ten years each in the State Reformatory at Jeffersonville.” ■—O'Mrs. S. M. Pettit of near Laura, the aged mother of county commissioner John F. Pettit and Mrs. S. A. Brusnahan of near Parr, is lying in a critical condition from a stroke of paralysis suffered on Wednesday of last week. Her entire right side and her vocal organs., are affected.

Attorney Elmore Barce of Fowler, who is conducting the defense in the Poole murder case at Lafayette, is certainly putting up a mighty good fight for his client and is reputation for himself that will help him greatly in a professional way in the future. A great many complimentary remarks are being made over the able manner in which Mr. Barce is conducting the defense in this case. OH— Governor Marshall granted the request of attorneys in a lawsuit now on trial at Winamac, for a temporary parole for C. L. Bader, the convicted bridge grafter sent up from this county and now serv" ing sentence at the Michigan City prison, in order that he may testify in the case. The suit is one in which the defunct Winamac Bridge Co., is concerned and the testimony of Bader, its former president, was necessary. Bader was sent without guard and was enabled to spend Thanksgiving with his family. He will return to prison as soon as the court is through with him in this case. .' —. ■ Following is the calendar of the last week of the November term of court, which ends Saturday, Dec. 9: Fourth week —Dec. 4, No. 6495, Hollingsworth, adm. vs. Parker, et al.; No. 6535, Hollingsworth vs. Hollingsworth, adm.; Dec. 5, No. 7796, Taylor vs. Kent, et al.; Dec. 7, No. 7777, Z. A. Cox vs. Lydia G. Monnett. \ No. 7795. Rosa Klaus vs. Jacob Klaus; set for trial fourth Wednesday. —o —• Attorney Guy of Remington,

who was looking after legal matters here Tuesday, called our attention to an error in'the summary of the Indiana- game laws published in The Democrat last week: That wherein it was stated that there was a closed season for rabbits from Oct. 1 to Nov. 10. Th eacts ot 1905 did make such a closed season, but repealed by the acts of 1907, and rabbits may be killed with impunity at any and all seasons of the year, although it is still generally believed that these is a closed season from Oct. 1 to Nov. 10, and prosecutions and convictions have, it is* said, been had in different sections of the the state. The summary as published in The Democrat, has been going the rounds of the press, and was copied by us without verifying its correctness. The thanks Mr. Guy for calling its attention to the error. —o—. The petit jury was excused for the term Wednesday, after three days service and hearing but three cases. In the Greenlee vs. Clinger scase, in which plaintiff sought to ’oust defendant from her farm in Walker tp., which he was occupying as tenant, plaintiff having bought the farm on which Clinger was a tenant last June, the jury gave Clinger possession and $lO damages. The costs, ?which are about SSO exclusive of her attorney’s fee, fall on Mrs. Greenlee, who must also remove her stock from the farm and leave Clinger in peaceable possession until the expiration of his lease. Other proceedings since our .last issue follow: No. 7332. Emmet L. Hollingsworth vs. Frank Reany, ft al.; receiver files report showing no receipts. No. 7719. Geo. P. Bent Co., vs. Albert S. Keene; defendant Keene remits SSO pending motion for a new trial. No. 7736. John B. Shelby, el al. vs. Jesse Walker; submitted to jury and verdict for $88.82 for plaintiff. No. 7749. Reuben C. Yeoman, et al. vs. Almira M. Stockton, et al.; set for hearing Dec. 7 before E. B. Sellers, special judge. Same entry in No. 7750, Halstead, et al. vs. Stockton. No. 7780. Thomas W. Grant vs. Ira Norris; submitted to jury, judgment for $51.39. No. $7786. State, ex Tel. Everett Greenlee, vs. E'ward P. Lane, trustee Newton tp., E. B. Sellers, having been .consulted by one of the panties in this cause declines to sit as special judge and matter is referred back to regular judge for appointment of judge.