Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1904 — As Complicated As the Bank Case. [ARTICLE]

As Complicated As the Bank Case.

When Assignee Chapman gets the seven times tangled affairs of the MoCoy bank straightened out, he had better taokle the J. G. Hayes and Eli Arnold bß3sult case, if he wants something real hard. The faot of the Hayes’ trial and fining $lO before Squire Troxell, last Friday, on plea of guilty, and hia staying the fine for 90 days, has already been related. Now it developes that the first move in the case, was the filing before

Squire Malachi P. Gome*-, of Birkley Tp. of an affilavit obarging him with the assault upoa Mr. Arnold and Mr. Arnold with assault and tattery upon Mr Haye3, That affidavit having

been filed by Frauk Hayes, father of the let defendant; and the latter entered a plea of guilty. Mr. Arnold, the second party, it seems deolared he could not get justice in Bquire Comer’s oourt, and took a ohange of venue to Squire Troxell, and before whom, as stated, Mr. Hayes appeared and plead guilty bat on an new affidavit, the Comer affidavit having been dismissed by Sqnire Troxell, as to both parties. The next ohapter now is tnat the defendant Hayes and his attorney, G. P. Honan, went ont to Squire Comer’s plaoe Monday afternoon, and there found that th 6 Squire had entered on his dooket his aooeptanoe of the former plea of guilty and made a fine of $2 and oosts. This fine and oosts Hayes then paid, Monday afternoon. To add to the complication it is asserted that the original affidavit before Squire Comer was defective, through the omission of a necessary word. Young Hayes will take the position that his fining by Squire Comer is a bar to the prosecution before Sqnire Troxell, and will appeal from the latter’s finding, to the circuit oourt.