Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1911 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

interesting Paragraphs tram me Various Departments OF JASPER COUMn CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—, Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. Sheriff Hoover was in Lafayette yesterday. —o—• Attorney John A. Dunlap was in Chicago on business Thursday. —o — The clerk has just completed a transcript of-the Marble ditch,' which is being taken up on a few particular points. The transcript contains 1,238 pages. G —• There is little doing nowadays in the matrimonial line, in fact nothing, everybody evidently. holding off for the Christmas rush. Not even a divorce suit has been filed during the past week, and were it not for a. little doing on transcript work the clerk’s of-. fice would hardly be worth keeping open. —o• A. C. Jtobinson settled a little difficulty of old standing yesterday forenoon with Homer Smith,' a Brookston insurance man, ac.cording to Marquis of Queen--bury rules. The affray occurred in front of the Republican office,! but unfortunately the . fighting, editor was not about to referee 1 the set-to, and this task fell to] bystanders who were attracted to the scene. Smith was not bad-' ly hurt, although he is said to' have gone to a doctor’s shop for a few bits of court plaster after, failing to answer to the call of “time” iji the third round. No' arrests were made. —o —• The olaim made bv the Bader bridge graft defenders that the recent release of Mr. Bader from] the State Prison to allow him to spend Thanksgiving with his family and work up sentiment for a pardon, and to travel about anattended for ten days, is not, an unusual thing, is wholly false.) No favors of this kind were shown Tom McCoy or Robert 1 Parker, the Rensselaer and Rem-' ingtoti bankers, respectively, and no one will doubt for a moment that their conduct at the prison was just as exemplary, their word just as reliable and their families were just as dear to them as Mr. Bader’s. Yet Tom was only permitted to leave the prison twice during his incarceration,: under guard, to attend thefuner-. als of his mother and father, respectively, but neither he nor Mr. Parker were sent out un-i attended to work up a pardon for, themselves. In fact, we do not believe such a thing ever occurred before under any administration.