Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1899 — Van Dusen Cleared of the Charge of Incest. [ARTICLE]

Van Dusen Cleared of the Charge of Incest.

Crown Point Star. The Shelby incest case was made short work of by the jury when it got into their hands. The first ballot was 11 to 1 for acquittal and the odd one claimed afterward' that he took the guilty side for a joke. The case lasted three days and consisted of nothing but obscenity from start to finish—enough to bring shame and blushesoji the bald heads who have been hardened by time to all sorts of impurity and lewdness. 1 If the job was put up on tbw father by the little girl prosecutor* and her adopted married sister* who is also young enough to be a; school girl yet, and the testimony showed they did, it. is hard to imagine what the pair will not be competent of doing with more age and practice. Verily, they are degenerate in every sense of the* word if the jury’s verdict ils a justone. and in all probability Shelby will not be through with sensations as long as those two “soiled doves” I remain in that territory. If what they swore to was the trnth thefather can now be branded as fiend at large, which makes it at bad state of affairs to say the least.