Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1912 — Two City Officials Come Near Mixing Up. [ARTICLE]

Two City Officials Come Near Mixing Up.

It is said that there was quite an interesting time for a few minutes Thursday night in the office of a Rensselaer attorney, when a couple of republican city officials pulled their coats and tried to get at each other’s throat, and the city marshal had his hands full In keeping them apart. The trouble is understood to have originated over the arrest of Morris Maloney of south of town one night the first of the week by the nightwatch, for being intoxicated and raising a disturbance. No formal charge was filed against him, and has not been, even yet, we are told, and on the promise of friends to produce him in court whenever he was wanted, the sheriff turned him over to them next da^. This action was not satisfactory to a couple of the‘city officials and they went to another city official to talk the matter over with him, when a quarrel resulted that almost lead to bloody noses.