Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1859 — HORSE-THIEF SENTENCED. [ARTICLE]

HORSE-THIEF SENTENCED.

; Joseph A. Miller, the one-armed man [ who was overhauled in the ‘-Forks” settle, jnent with a stolen I'orae, had his trial last Wednesday in Wirinemac, and was sentenced to three years in the Penitentiary sand to pay a fine of SIOO. The Pulaski 'Democrat ’ “The most important suit pending during the term was the State vs. Josepn A. Miller. The defendant has been living in the county sor some months, a part of which time was in teaching school in Tippecanoe township. We rather think he was engaged in the same vocation for a few weeks in Van Buren township. Miller was formerly ot phio, has but one arm, and don’t appear very sharp. He was arrested in Jasper county on Suspicion of horse-stealing, and brought to this place on Friday last where h" had a preliminary examination before Esq. Kelly, try whom he was com njitted in default of bail, ’t’he prisoner elected to be tried in the Comnpon Pleas Court. The trial ijccupied about Half the day on Wednesday, and the lawyers about half the day on Thursday. The jury in the case alter remaining out .b rut four hours, returned a verdict • 1 “ Guilty," and affixed his term of service in the State’s prisoh at three years, assessed a fin ■ of one hundred dollars, disfranchised him for three ybars, and made him incapable of holding oSke for the same period. 'The horse stolen belonged to Mr. John Sutton of Harrison township, and had been running with some other' horses.” •OOrAt the Fourth of July celebration in Ironton, Missouri, Captain John Hall,one of Marion’s men, was present. He is a native ofi North Carolina, and will be ninety-nine yehrs of age on the 31 st of September next, He supports himself by making brooms and and has never received a pension, thpugh be fought gallantly during the Rev* ’./ar, and distinguished himself at the battle of Guilford Court House, N. C., Mirch 15, 178 J, where he was m“de lieutenant of a company. (ty-Her 1 ert, the California Congressman, member of th ■ Cincinnati Convention, ai)d . murderer or an Irishman, has been warned to (leave th .5 town of Hennaaelly on pain of| death. He is altdg.-d to have'been ccwiwecred with a company ot gamblers and sco-jn-di iils w io had got to be so pest-r’f.Tous * >d evil th.it th* citizen* could not stand it any lodger.