Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1915 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL - t The Legal* News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered From The Several bounty Offices. Commissioners’ court will convene in regular March session Monday. W. ;H. Parkison went to Logansport Tuesday on business connected with the Gault ditch case, which is pending in the Kokomo circuit court. Marriage licenses issued: Feb. 23, Loyal Brown, of Cyclone, lnd., aged 22 April 4 last, occupation farmer, to Alma Fern Gunyon of Parr,, aged 19 Feb. 18 last, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Feb. 24, Andrew Kamminga p of Roselawn, aged 26 Jan. 2 last, occupation Tanner, to Bertha Peterson of Fair Oaks, q,ged 20 Feb. 18 last, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Feb. 24, Ira Jennings Caldwell of Rensselaer, aged 20 Nov. 3 last, occupation farmer, to Lulu Maud Cavinder of Gifford, aged 18 Sept. 15 last, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Male being under age, father filed written consent to issuance of license. Married by Rev. J. P. Green.

A. H ! . Hopkins, receiver of the Indiana assets of Israel Koffman, has been directed by Federal Judge Anderson of Indianapolis to send the assets he holds to Edmund D. Buell, trustee, at Chicago. Buell was appointed trustee in involuntary bankruptcy proceedings in the federal court at Chicago, where Koftman also owned a store. The Rensselaer creditors who sought to have the stock of goods disposed of here, and thus protect their claims, will probably receive little or nothing, except that the claim of Jasper county for some S6O for taxes, will likely be held to be a preferred claim and be paid Jn full whether any of the other creditors get anything or not. Mr. Hopkins will ship the goods this week.

Charles Shinkle, the Thayer, Newton county man who has been confined in jail here for the past three months, serving a 90-day sentence for burglary of the Adams ranch near Roselawn, as a prisoner of Newton county, where he confessed to his part in the robbery, was released Wednesday, having completed his sentence. Shinkle’s story was that he and the Grangers, of Thayer, committed the robbery of the Adams ranch house last May in which some SSOQ worth of rugs, silverware, etc., was taken, and says that he was induced by the Grangers to help them in the job, but got little if anything of the proceeds. The property was taken to Hammond and placed in a storage house, he stated, and it is said was later found there. Mr. Adams, who is wealthy Chicagoan, is after the Grangers for their alleged part in the robbery, and they are now under bond iiTthe Newton circuit court, the case 'to come up in the March term.

The Jasper county jail is now'harboring a self-confessed horsethief, a Newton county prisoner by the name of Walter Miller, who stole a team of draft horses, a driving mare and buggy, a set of double harness and two sets of single harness from the G. H. Hillis ranch west of Fair Oaks, Monday night. He was overhauled near Momence, 11l , by Mr. Hillis and some neighbors who pursued the thief in automobiles, and was taken back to Kentland where a preliminary hearing was held at which he is alleged to have made a full confession of the crime, and was bound over to the next term of the. Newton circuit court and sent to Rensselaer in default of bond. Miller had worked on the Hillis ranch and was therefore familiar with the lay of the land. He intended to makd Galesburg, 111., sell the driving mare and use the draft team for teaming in that city, he states. Miller, who is about 30 years of

age and claims never to have been in trouble before, and it is very probable he will not get in trouble of this kind again for some years to come.