Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1919 — WAS FINED $25 AND COSTS [ARTICLE]

WAS FINED $25 AND COSTS

On Plea of Guilty to Serious Charge Made by Jasper County Girl. The case of the State of Indiana vs. John Christensen, charging the latter with rape on Miss Mamie Hays, filed in the Jasper circuit court recently and taken to Kentland on change of venue, came up Wednesday, and after considerable' wrangling over the Issues the defendant plead guilty and was fined 125 and costs. The parties reside in the north part of Jasper county. The several cases against Ed Oliver, H. J. Kuppers et al, growing out of the alleged unlawful acts of defendants in dispossessing Robert Grimm from a house near Newland, are set for trial next week. One case against Oliver and one against Kuppers, charging larceny, have been dismissed. In the case of A. S. Laßue vs. ,E. G. Sternberg, on land sale con--Uact, also taken to Kentland from this county, another change of vefiue has been taken there.