Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1898 — In Squire Burnham’s Court. [ARTICLE]

In Squire Burnham’s Court.

Saturday afternoon, Charley Kelley, whom A. Anderson charged with being the party who ran over his six year old son, on the evening of Nov. 30th, with a bicycle, plead guilty to the oharge of assault and battery and was fined $1 and costs. The deputy prosecutor threw off his costs and the court costs were cut down as low as possible, making the entire amount of fine and oosts $4.35. Monday morning Edward Brinley, another of the three boys whom Uncle Mac made affidavits against for hooting at and other ways Rnnoying himself and his sheep-skin band, while on their way to iho iculptituioo iHOunug the other night, was before the court. He was charged with disorderly conduct, as defined in one of our city ordinances. He plead guilty, and was fined $1 and costs, amounting in all to $4.05. As in ♦ho core of the Sharp and Kelley boy, the costs were cut as low as possible. A short time after the Brinley case was disposed of, Jimmy George, the Inst of the three accused of disorderly conduct, walked up to the “caplaiu’s office” and also plead guilty. He paid the usual $4.05.