Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1905 — Bill Hurley Not Prosecuted. [ARTICLE]

Bill Hurley Not Prosecuted.

Bill Hurley, a son of T. H. Hurley, of Blackford was arrested a few days ago, at the complaint of Robert Meeder, who charged him with stealing $lO from his pocket book. Meeder and Hurley had been “batching” together in a hut up near Snowflake school house, in north Barkley. One night they bad an honored guest in a young man named Cover. Meeder as be went to bed dropped his pocket book on the floor, and as he replaced it in the depths of his pocket, remarked that it contained money of the almost fabulous amount of $lO, and all in one great big bill. Meeder claimed that during the night he heard Bill with his, Meeder’s. clothes, The next morning Cover, the guest, brought the empty pocket-book into the mansion and said he found it out by the fence through which Meeder had been carrying hay, the evening before. Thereupon Meeder caused Hurley’s arrest, on charge of stealing the wealth, His trial was to have taken place Tuesday afternoon before Squire Irwin but Meeder the prosecuting witness failed to appear, and was reported to be on a big drunk which covered, in its various ramifications, pretty much all of northern Jasper county. There being thus no man to accuse him, Hurley was discharged.