Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1887 — CASE IN COURT. [ARTICLE]

CASE IN COURT.

STATE CASES. John Minikus was tried by a • jury, on the charge of being drunk in a public place, and acquitted. The indictment was found at a previous term. . The indictments against Henry O. Harris and Joseph Mason, the Bohemian oats men, indicted for conspiracy to defraud, were quashed. Harris is a . prominent and wealthy farmer of Newton county, living near Mt. Ayr, and Mason a very wealthy citizen of Ft. Wayne. An old indictment against Resin F. Goddard, charged with selling liquor to a minor, was dismissed; the needed witness having left the state; The two remaining cases against John G. Reynolds were also dismissed on account of the inability of thestate to produce their witnesses.