Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1899 — Uncle Eph Acquitted. [ARTICLE]

Uncle Eph Acquitted.

Uncle Eph Fleming had hie second trial Thursday before Squire Burnham and a jury of solid citizens, on the charge of assault and battery upon Joseph Shindler; the case being the one previously mentioned in which Mr. Fleming smote young Shindlaer, right and left, and especially right, in which was a long heeled beer glass. . The two men had bad a difficulty about a trade, and it was shown that Shindlaer, with two companions, one Jess Brown of Morocco, and another called Roses, had 4been following Uncle Eph around looking for trouble. At the time of the difficulty Uncle Eph was in Rosenbaum’s saloon, and the others came in from the rear, and Shindlaer began crowding Uncle Eph, calling him all kinds of names, and threatening to pound him. After Fleming had backed away about half the length of the bar, and warned Shindlaer to keep back, and the latter kept closing up, Uncle Eph got his fist and beer glass in action, and put Shjndlaer out of the fight, very , decisively. After the row the men still pursued Fleming, and Would have jumped him in Jack Warners shop, but Warner threatened to mash them with a dub. They also followed Fleming when he started home, and stopped him and would have pulled him out of his wagon, but the old man had loaded up with rocks and scrap iron and bluffed them off. The jury remained out quite a long time, but they finally agreed that Uncle Eph was acting in self defense and found him not guility. ’