Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1900 — Court News From Kentland. [ARTICLE]

Court News From Kentland.

The suit of John W. Walker, the stenographer, for a mandate to compel the Newton County Council to make an appropriation to pay back salary claimed to be due hifn was sent to White county, on change of venue. The other Jasper county case of Blotsky, the peddler vs the Monou R. R. company was tried by the court. Blotsky it will be remembered, got on a train at Rose Lawn, with a ticket for Fair Oaks. He did not get off at Fair Oaks and carried on to Rensselaer. The conductor made him pay his fare, by taking his overcoat. Blotsky claimed that.he wanted to get off at Fair Oaks, but that the station was not called. He sued for SIOOO and the court gave him SSO. In the Peter Bucks robbery case from Goodland briefly mentioned a few days ago, three men were arrested. Bucks is a butcher, at Goodland. and formerly lived in Jasper Co. On the night of Saturday, Oct. 20th or rather early the next morning, some one slipped into his house, and carried away his pantaloons, and abstracted from the pockets thereof something over SIOO, leaving the pants behind the barn. Joe Belile, a drunken galoot well acquainted with the interior of Jasper county jail, and who lives around Remington, was arrested, and also James Simms and Ben Tekuloe. The latter turned states evidence. He claimed that the other two planned the robbery, and that he went along with them to near Buck’s house, but went to sleep on the grounds. Simms, who had been cutting meat in Buck’s shop went to sleep also, and according to Tekuloe’ Belile committed the robbery. Bucks heard some one in his house and he and his son went out and found Tekuloe and Simms asleep near the house. There was a whole lot of contradictory testimony at the trial of Belile and Simms, and the jury evidently thought the evidence for the state insufficient and they acquitted them,