Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — THE CIRCUIT COURT. [ARTICLE]

THE CIRCUIT COURT.

jßhaa. Wilson, of Remington, had a jury trial, charged with gambling, and was acquitted, Wm. Towers, a young and not very bright boy of Rensselaer plead guilty to petit larceny. He and some other boys having stolen some cigars from the railroad depot. Sentenced to 10 days in jail and $1 fine and costs. The sentence was suspended during good behavior, owing to the youth and ignorance of the boy and indigent circumstances of his widowed mother. The Denton-Culp ditch case, which has been in the courts for years, including its passage through the Supreme court, and sending back for retrial, was finally settled by the opposing parties most interested, David Culp and S. P. Thompson, and will now go back to the Commissioners and the construction of the ditch be proceeded with. This ditch was started prior to and occupied much of the same ground as the more famous but now dead, though unburied, Wakarusa ditch. The somewhat noted divorce case of Mary C. Kroeger vs Frederick Kroeger, from Walker, was tried Monday, but decision is not yet rendered. The old people have had lots of trouble over property, and also over the old gentleman’s inclination for the brimming schooner, and disinclination for physical labor. - The case of J Anna Renicker vs the L. N. A. & C. Ry. Co., came to trial

Tuesday afternoon, before a jury; and with Daniel Fraser, of Fowler as special judge. The case has been, tried once and was reversed by the Appellate Court. In 1891 Miss Renicker came in on the north bound train, wishing to stop at Rensselaer. The train ran way past the depot, and a trainman told her the train would run back. Instead, it pulled out for Chicago, and finally stopped and let her off in a ditch near Surrey. In getting off she received personal injuries which her medical witnesses say will hurt her always, and get worse insteai of better. At the first trial she got $750 verdict.