Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1905 — Squire’s Busy Day [ARTICLE]

Squire’s Busy Day

Members of the Levee gang got busy Siturday night- and Squire Irwin, as a necessary result, got busy Sunday afternoon. The trouble began in Keister’s restaurant after the saloons had closed and Guy Peacock handed one to John Knight which knocked him through one of the front windows, Officers Vick and Dillon were close by and they* went down and gathered in Peacock and Knight. Abe Stone, Knight’s brother-in-law here butted in his specialty performance of cussing and swearing and proposed to see if any of “dot gang” was ’rested or not and the officers quietly added him to their [assortment, At the heating Sunday, “Peaky” plead guilty to assault aud battery and got $5 and costs or sl4 75 in all Hejwasalso charged with intoxication and his trial set for Tuesday, at two p. m, Stone plead guilty tc profanity got $1 and costs $5.45 in all on thafand also p'ead guilty to intoxication and got the same fine, and $lO 75 in all on that charge. Knight also plead guilty to booze and got $10,75 in all.

The whole bunch then went to jail, whereupon it was discovered that something was lacking, which was another man to fill out a four handed game of cards. The officers therefore scurried aronnd and gathered in one Ed Hoyt, a traveling printing press machinist' He was charged with mixing in the fight between Knight and Peacock and also with intoxication, His trial wae set for two o’clock on Monday afternoon,