Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1901 — The Circuit Court. [ARTICLE]

The Circuit Court.

Thomas Prioe, of the recent insane trial, was before the court Tuesday, on an application for the appointment of a guardian for his property. His nephew, Edward Price, of Parr, was appointed his guardian, and T. F. Clarke, superintendent of the county asylum, was appointed as his keeper. Mrs. Mary Oleson, of Rensselaer, was granted a divorce and the privilege of resuming her name by a former marriage, Mrs. Mary Hamilton. The grounds were abandonment.

Emery White a young fellow of Union, was tried on the charge of killing a quail before the law was out. The jury could not agree, and were discharged. A. P, Baker, the well known insurance man, plead guilty to the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, and will be given a sentence of from one to seven years in the Michigan City prison. It would have been an easy matter to have convicted him of the more serious crime of forgery, as some half dozen or more forged notes, of his workmanship have turned up. One is on Wm. L. Nowels name for $57 one on Henry Kuloph for $37, Ed Lakin $59, Homer Lakin $59. Another has Joe Nagel’s name, but the amount we did not learn. Baker’s plan was to get notes as first payment on a life insurance policy and then make an exact oopy of the note, turning the originals in to the company and cashing or “soaking” the copies. The Nowels oopy was cashed by Henry Hildebrand, and was so exact an imitation that Mr. Nowels himself pronounced it the original note.

Mrs. Daisey DeVoogt of Remington, was granted a divorce Thursday morning, from Joseph DeVoogt, on the grounds of abandonment. They were married Deo. 24,1893 and be abandoned her in July 1896. In this oase the whereabouts of the defendant were unknown, and notice given by publication, and the plaintiff is therefore forbidden to marry again for two years. She is given the oustody of her two children, Blanoh born in 1895, and Frank born in 1897. Thursday morning Judge Thompson passed formal sentence on A:fr S&a3iU^ inflDranoe ** eat on his plea of guilty money by false pretenses. He gets from 1 to 7 years at Miohigan City. With good oonduot.he can get out in one year. The suit of Thomas Harris against Lewis Harris grew out of the stealing and selling of a livery team, in Illinois, by Warren Bullis some tijne ago. Lewis bought the outfit from Bullis for $55 and sold them to Thomas for S6O. The Illinois owner reclaimed the property and Thomas was to hold the saok. Bullis claimed that he bought the outfit near Rensselaer. Lewis proved that he told the same story to Thomas as Bullis told to him; and the court held that that let Lewis out. Thomas’ only recourse is young Bullis, and he is presumably non est.