Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Talugraphlc Reports From Many Parts of the Conntry. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. FOWLER POSTMASTER INDICTED Grand Jury Returns on Assault Chargee. Fowler, Eeb. 6. —After being In session at different times for the past three weeks, the grand jurry has returned an indictment against Theodore IHoss, postmaster of Fowler, charging him with assault and battery on the person of Alva Kitterman, a* drayman of Fowler. Many witnesses were heard by the grand jury and the Indictment was not unexpected. The Indictment is the result of an assault by Hoss when Kittermam, who hauls mall sacks to and from the ipostoffice, refused to leave the postofflee when so ordered by Hoss, and Hoss struck him on the head with a stamp canceller, knocking him unconscious. At the time of' the inciddht the lobby of Che postofflee was filled with people. The defense claim that they will prove at the trial, which has been set for tomorrow, that Kitterman was the aggressor, and that he kicked Hoss, and that Hoss was defending himself at the time the blow was struck. Attorneys E. Barce and William Itfham will defend Hess, and Prosecutor Wilbur Nolin will represent the state.