Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1905 — ARTHUR GREENLEE’S CASE DISMISSED. [ARTICLE]

ARTHUR GREENLEE’S CASE DISMISSED.

The oase against Aithnr Greenlee, of H-tnging Grove township, oame before Bquire Troxell, Tuesday afternoon. He was charged with breaking a window ia the bonse of Mrs. Sarah A. Brown, in the east part of town, one night in November, She testified that some persons oame to her house and knooked at the door She called and asked what they wanted, aud they said they wanted to come in. She told them she was ‘crippled from a fall, and could not let them in. The next aot in the drama was that a stone oame crashing through the glass transom over the door, the stone striking the wall ou the other aide of the room, Bnd the broken glass flying in all directions. Mrs. Brown did not see either party but swore she new it was Greenlee because she knew the sweet tones of bis voioe. She did not claim to have seen either party„nor to know who threw the stone. The state had no other evidence any more couolnsive. and Deputy Proseoutor Leopold dismissed the case, without hearing

any evidence for the defensd. Mrs- Greenlee was present in court and ready, so it was stated to prove an by alibi aweßring that Mr. Greenlee was at home that night. The guilty dorniok that smashed the transom is stilt in custody of the constable.