Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1907 — Hammond Priest Fined. [ARTICLE]

Hammond Priest Fined.

Father Kobeliek, pastor of the St. Casimirs Catholic church at Hammond was fined $2 aud costs, amounting to S2O on Saturday on the charge of assault aud battery preferred by Agnes Kruszyna. It was alleged that he had pushed her off the porch of his residence injuring her so severely that she was confined to her bed for two weeks. Another woman, Antouia Czaplinska, is said to have oeeu struck by the priest with au iron bar. He has appealed the case from the de cision of the Justice.