Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1919 — BOUND OVER TO CIRCUIT COURT [ARTICLE]

BOUND OVER TO CIRCUIT COURT

Men Charged With Running Over Monon Woman Are Held. Mike Mellon and Alex Cota, the two Wolcott men who are alleged to have run over Mrs. Graves of Monon with their auto Saturday evening while they were under the Influence of liquor, injuring her so badly that she died a short time later, had their preliminary (hearing before Justice of the Peace Catlin at Monoh Wednesday and were bound over to the circuit court without ball. . . There are many conflicting statements regarding the accident, some people alleging that the car was running at a speed of 35 miles per hour and that the occupants were intoxicated; it was reported by others that the car was moving slowly and that Mrs. Graves stepped from between two cars, which were parked/ on the east side of the street and that when she reached the middle of the street she hesitated and started to return to t'he sidewalk from which she had come, and that the driver of the car applied the brakes and momentarily decreased the speed’ of t'he car, but that Mrs. Graves started forward as the car started forward, causing the accident.

Several people who talked to the occupants of the car Insist that at least two of them were intoxicated and expressed an opinion t'hat the others might have been. Few people say that Mellon was under the influence of liquor and some say they think 'he was not and that be was driving the machine which belonged to the mother of Cota, because Cota was unable to control it on account of his condition. Mellon, whose wife recently died of Anfl'uenza, resides with his broth-er-in-law, George Hanna, north of Wolcott. He formerly lived near Monon and is well spoken of. Cota is a son of Joseph Cota, north of Wolcott and has always had a good reputation and was recently discharged from army service at Camp Taylor.