Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1907 — In Skedunk. [ARTICLE]

In Skedunk.

“What are we waitin’ for?” asked the prisoner, who had been arrested for stealing a horse. “Ain’t there goiu’ to be no trial?” “There’ll be a trial, all right, you bet,” said the constable; “but you can’t hurry the court. The court is right in the middle of a game of checkers, and it’s a case of contempt if We go in and bother him now.”