Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1906 — Two Prisolers From Newton County. [ARTICLE]

Two Prisolers From Newton County.

The chief grief of the three young fellow's from Fair Oaks, in their confinement at the county jail, is understood to have been because there was not one more, or enough to make a four handed game, of euchre, or old sledge. And it was the orginal intention of our philanthropic officials to corral at least four of the same crowd, but Alva Brohardt, for whom an invitation was prepared, hiked out before the politely worded document could be shown to him. However, the addl : tional company at the jail has.been supplied from another source, and now there is one too many for a four hander, instead of one too few. The additional two men came in Friday evening, and"were sent by Squire Sorenson of Roselawn. They are two brothers named Baker, and they also are charged with disturbing a public meeting, the same being a Christmas tree entertainment, at the Ball school house, southwest of Roselawn. One of the boys is in for some 28 days and the other about 45, if they lay out their full fines and costs. Their friends have employed attorney Halleck to look up the facts of their conviction and it may be it will be set aside. According to some reports, the boys were not proven to have done anything worse than to eut two buttons from the back of a young lady’s cloak. There is also said to be great doubt of the legality of a Newton 'county justice committing convicted prisoners direct to the Jasper county jail. The usna 1 course is to turn them over to their own county sheriff, first, and let him bring them here,