Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1919 — Eight Face Perjury Charge. [ARTICLE]

Eight Face Perjury Charge.

Shelbyville, March 14.—Mr. and Mrs. Raymond, John Heck, father of Raymond ; Jesse Wolfe, Minnie Engle, Lizzie Martin, Edna Heck and William Talbert were arrested at Morristown and placed in the Shelby county jail, charged with perjury on indictments returned by the grand jury here. The indictments were returned in connection with the evidence introduuatl at the trial of Jesse Wolfe and Raymond Heck In which the state charged the two men with the theft of about SSOO worth of clover seed from a warehouse owned by Noble Bassett. Both were acquitted. Evidence Introduced by the defense at the trial showed that the defendants were not In Indianapolis at the time the clovei* seed was supposed to have been offered for sale in that city to, the Everitt O. K. seed store. Employees of the store identified Heck and Wolfe as the two men who had offered the grain for sale. Prosecutor Tolen stated that a real sensation will follow in this case and that more indictments will follow. Twelve witnesses were examined by the grand jury in returning the Indictments.