Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1883 — THE CIRCUIT COURT; [ARTICLE]

THE CIRCUIT COURT;

And Matters of Interest Therewith Connected. I .■ ' • . '• ’ ._ ■ r» Personal Matters. Judge Ward arrived at noon, Monday, having driven across the country from Kentland. Prosecutor M. H. Walker arrived on the train Monday evening. His health is very much better than it was some months ago. Large numbers of attorneys from other counties have attended the court this week: Hon. U. Z. Wiley, of Fowler, J. T. Saunderson, of Kentland Wm. Datroch, of Morocco, J. H. Adams and W. F. Stillwell, of Lafayette, James P. Wright, of Reynolds, and a Mr. Gregory, of Indianapolis being among the number. Judge Vinton, of Lafayette was present Tuesday and rendered his decision in case of Wilkinson vs. Hawkins, et. al., an old Benton county case tried before, on charge of venue, a good while ago. Hjg verdict was for the defendent.

Divorce Day. Tuesday was a field day for those who were seeking for the dissolution of troublesome matrimonial entanglements. Three decrees of divorce were granted on that day. A greater number, we venture to say than were ever before granted in one day, in this county. Lillie Housman was divorced ■from Frank G. Housman, and custody of child granted her. Failure to provide being the grounds of divorce. M.F. Chilcote, attorney for Plainiff. Margaret Sayers from Leroy Sayers, on the grounds of cruel treatment. M. F. Chilcote for plaintiff. The Sayers live in Newton, tp. ' v M. A. Bowling from John Bowling, desertion, Thompson & Bro., for plaintiff. Mrs. Bowling resides in Jord.m tp. There was no contest made in any of the above cases. That of Robert J.. Yeoman vs. Indiana Yeoman, on the grounds of abandonment, will come up for trial in a few days. A strong fight for the custody of the child will be jnade by both parties. Criminal Cases. James Frazer, of Remington was drawn as a member of the . Grand jury. He was nearly drunk when he reached town, and proinpty completed the job after his arrival. On Tuesday, maudlin drunk, he was run in by Marshal Platt, indicted for drunkenss in a public place, by the Grand jury, of which he should have been a. member, plead guilty, was most severely reprimanded by the court and fined five dollars and costs. Frazer was once a fine man, and is so even yet at intervals, but whisky is fast making him a hopeless wreck. . Two important criminal cases a?e set foi trial this week. James Lamb, of Keener tp., charged with complicity in the stealing of Sellick’s horses, from Walker tp., and Lyman Brooks, also of Keener, charged with burning the barn of William Abrams.