Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — COULDN’T FOOL WITH THE COURT. [ARTICLE]

COULDN’T FOOL WITH THE COURT.

A Hoosier Attorney Comes to Grief at Indianapolis. [lndianapolis special] In the Ciiminal Court tA-day the contempt proceedings against Wilbur Royse, an attorney, were disposed of. Royse was defending his brother against the charge of highway robbery. After conviction jt was charged that the attorney engineered a scheme for the prosecuting witness to find his supposed stolen pocket-book and money in his coat lining, and then tell the court that the money had never been taken. The alleged plot was exposed in court, and the father of the young men, who was also a party to it, fled. The defense threw themselves on the clemency of the court, Royse saying that he had intended no contempt of court, but was only trying to get a new trial for his brother. Judge Norton reflected upon the act of the defendant in the most scathing terms, and then sentenced him to three months’ imprisonment in jail, the full extent of the law, and to pay a fine of SIOO. The latter was made light because of representations that it would have to be paid by Mrs. Royse, whose property has Already suffered severely because of the acts of her husband and father-in-law.