Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1897 — The Circuit Court. [ARTICLE]

The Circuit Court.

Court adjourned Friday night until next Wednesday. The jury is dismissed for the term, after 5 days’ attendance. John and Charley Jones, the lap robe appropriates from Wheatfield Tp., were tried by a jury Friday afternoon, and found guilty. They are fined $lO each, sentenced to jail 30 days and disfranchised for one yepr. John Easter, who plead guilty to larceny of a harness under the name of John Schneider, was sentenced by the court to one year in the state reformatory, at Jeffersonville. His sentence will not be entered of record, however, until the question of his age is settled, it being likely that he is over 30 years old which is the age limit for reformatory sentences. The case of Elmira Monnett, who brought suit to be again declared of sound mind, that the management of her property might be restored, was the most generally interesting trial of the term. The attorneys for Miss Monnett were Austin of Rensselaer and Haywood, of Lafayette. The attorneys for the guardian were Chilcote & Dunn, and H. B. Kurrie. Among the witnesses who thought the plaintiff sane and capable of managing her own property, were Drs. Walker of Lafayette and Alter and Berkley, of Rensselaer. Among the other side, who thought the plaintiff not of sound mind were Drs. Hardy, of Evanston, 111., and S. C. Johnson of Rensselaer. On the same side also, in their testi- . mony, was the.plaintiffi's sister Mrs. Cordelia Monnett, her guardian, H. L. Brown, also Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Yeoman and daughter, and Miss Bertha Parcells, deputy county clerk. The plaintiff was for quite a long time an inmate of Mr. Yeoman's family. The jury received the case at 4 p. in. Friday and at 10 P. M. brought in a verdict declaring the plaintiff of sound mind and restoring to her the management of her property.