Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — Tuley Was Set Free. [ARTICLE]

Tuley Was Set Free.

Squire Burnham finished the preliminary hearing of the case of A. Tuley, Wednesday afternoon, but reserved decision until 9 o’clock next morning. During his short stay here young Tuley boarded at the Foster house and w’hen he left he paid for his board with orders on people who owed him nothing and also took away Miss Foster’s ring, as mentioned in a previous issue. . When he took the ring he picked it up openly from where Miss Foster had laid it, and remarked that he would take that along. At the trial he claimed that he took the ring to make up for one Miss Foster had of his. His own ring he had lost down the waste pipe of a washstand, and had offered a reward of one dollar for its recovery. Miss Foster hired a boy to dig up the drain and find the ring, and was ready to deliver it to Tuley when she got her dollar. Tuley restored Miss Foster's ring and also put up a hard luck talk and the Squire tempered his justice with mercy and let the young fellow go, which was probably the best disposition he could have made of the case.