Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1901 — Pass Him His Pay on a Pole. [ARTICLE]

Pass Him His Pay on a Pole.

The Sangamon county grand jury at Springfield, 111., was thrown into a panic Tuesday when a deputy sheriff rushed into the room and breathlessly announced that one of the sitting members—James Stevenson —had broken smallpox quarantine at Salisbury to come to that city to do jury duty. A hasty adjournment was taken and the members of the garnd jury fell over one another in their mad rush for the open air, all except Stevenson. He regarded the actions of his fellow jurymen as ridiculous and uncalled for. The jurymen appealed to Judge Thompson, and he asked Stevenson for his resignation. An order for Stevenson’s pay was handed to him at the end of a pole.