Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1900 — The Circuit Court. [ARTICLE]

The Circuit Court.

Young Davis Sent To The Reform:'tory. In the circuit court Tuesday, Charles Davis, the young fellow who was arrested a month or so ago for passing a forged order on T. J. Mallatt, of Fair Oaks, plead guilty to the charge of obtaining goods under a false pretenses. He was sentenced to the state reformatory at Jeffersonville, for an indeterminate period of from one to seven years. He claims that he will be 19 years old; in April. Says he was born at South Beqd and that his parents are both dead. He had been working for Charles T. Otis, on his Keener tp. ranch since last April. He passed a forged order, signed Charles W. Otis, on T. J. Mallatt, of Fair Oaks, receiving therefore $3.34 in goods and one dollar in cash. J. B. Clemans, of Shelby says he is the same lad that got into him about $lB worth by the same method. But that fact was not shown in this case. The divorce case of Anna S. Osborn, of Rensselaer against Charles Osborn, was tried Tuesday afternoon. They were married Jan. Bth 1899, with a constable for the groom’s best man. He abandoned her July 13th, of the same year," and on the very day their baby died, leaving her to bear the funeral expenses Also without his care in her own sickness She was granted a divorce, on the grounds of cruel treatment, and allowed to resume her maiden name of Anna S. Hartman. The case of Sheffer vs. the C. I. & L. R. R., for damages for the death of'Wm. Sheffer, was sent to Newtoncou nt y. on change of ven - ue. The Kline va, Kline' case, from Newton, was continued, by agreement. The divorce case from Fair Oaks of Fannie Smyser, vs. Harry L. Smyser, was tried Wednesday afternoon. They were married Feb. 24th 1897 and lived together 8 months, when he deserted her and went to Illinois. She received two letters from Chicago, and never heard from him since, She was granted a divorce on the grounds of abandonment and failure to provide. She is permitted to resume her maiden name of Fannie Sexton. She wss only 15 years old when she was married. Matthew D. Carr, now of Rens selaer, was indicted some time ago, on the charge of trying to get the county wolf scalp bounty on a dog’s scalp. The court Wednesday, held the indictment bad, on a technicality. .