Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1901 — CIRCUIT COURT NOTES. [ARTICLE]

CIRCUIT COURT NOTES.

The Alvey-Bedford Case Tried This Week. The circuit court has been in almost continuous session since our last issue. The grand jury adjourned Thursday evening, after finding seven indictments. One was against Fred Glacken, for burglarizing the residences of Mrs. A. M. Stockton and R. B. Porter on show day; another is against Albert Wilson for assault and battery with attempt to commit rape. The other indictments were for forgery, intoxication, assault and battery with attempt to commit rape, for assault and battery, and larceny. Lewis Rasmussen, of Dunville, was fined $5 and costs, $55 in all, for as sault and battery upon the person of Daniel A. Gross, the latter having a portion of his ear chewed off during a fight with the former. Carl Hamacher, of Union township, was acquitted by a jury. He was charged with stealing eleven Guinea hens from George W. Cover. Joseph Milner, of Remington, and G. G. Williams, of Rensselaer, were admitted to the bar. Everett Burns was fined $5 and costs for assault and battery. Montz, of Wheatfield, was acquitted off the charge of illegal sale of liquor. Tn the case of William Cale, of Rose Lawn, who was fined for the unlawful possession of a prairie chicken by ’Squire Burnham, and Who took an

appeal to the circuit court, the prose- ’ cutor made a motion to nolle prosse the case, which was sustained, and the prisoner discharged. Fred Glacken, the young burglar, on a plea of guilty, was sentenced to the reformatory at Jeffersonville for an indeterminate sentence of fromtwo to fourteen years, fined SSO and disfranchised for five years. A case that has taken up consider able time of the court this term was that of the State vs. Minnie Alvey, Josie Shea and John Webber. They were indicted by the grand jury, charged with larceny. Mrs. Alvey, in packing up the effects of her sister, Mrs. Lizzie Hitchcock, got some of the property of her uncle, F. W. Bed ford, in the trunk of goods which she expected to take back to Kentucky with here. She was assisted in the packing by the other two defendants, who at that time were employes of Mr. Bedford. The case was tried before a jury and the court room was packed with interested spectators. The case went to the jury Tuesday evening, who returned a verdict of acquittal. Six or seven ballots were taken and it is understood that on a portion of them three members voted for conviction. At the time of going to press, the Judge had not rendered his decision in the case of Alvey vs. Bedford, for ? the possession of little Frank HitchI cock.