Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1908 — Some Court Notes. [ARTICLE]

Some Court Notes.

On next Wednesday the Grover Smith, et al, ditch case is set for trial. —x — The petition for a tile drain by Samuel Sparling, et al, is set for hearing May 2nd. —x — The Erastus Peacock care was this morning set for heaiing next Friday. This is on the charge of wife desertion. The jury was excused Wednesday until next Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock, when the Dan Day murder case is set for hearing. • • —x— The trustees of the county will meet in their regular monthly session next Monday and will at that time elect a county truant officer for the ensuing year. —x — *'77o? ■ John Poole, of Rensselaer, and John J. Porter, of Remington, have been notified that they are to serve on the May petit jury of the United States court at Indianapolis, and they will go.there tomorrow for that purpose. x Next Monday is the last day for tax paying, and County Treasurer Allman would like to write your receipt yet this week. No receipts are withheld. It is either pay before Monday or suffer the 10 per cent penalty. —x — August Rosenbaum, whose arrest had been deferred since the raiding of his hotel last Saturday, when a large quantity of liquor was found, was arrested this morning, and taken before Judge Hanley, who set his hearing for Wednesday of next week, and admitted him to bail in the sum of SIOO. The charge is for having liquor, in his possession for the purpose of sale. —x— The case of John F. Judy vs Chas. Kramer was settled .Wednesday morning. It seems that Judy sold Kramer several mules and wagons and that he used them in doing some contract work over in Illinois, and did not meet the payments and that last fall Judy took the property, sold it at auction, credited Kramer with the proceeds of the sale and sued for the balance. Kramer did not fight the case and judgment was rendeied with costs and attornney fees, in all $750. —x — There has been little business before the court the past week, and the light docket has given the checker players a chance. Judge Hanley is one of the average fair players and Clerk Warner ranks a shade or two worse than that. Court Stenographer Sigler is developing considerable class, and occasionally has the temerity to tackle such old timers as Attorney Halleck and Nightwatch Thomas. Such professional terms as “the laird and the lady” and the “black doctor” are now used with freedom, which indicates that the hit and miss game has given way to the more expert kind. —x — Dan Day, to be tried next Tuesday for the murder of Daisy Phillips, is still connfined in the padded cell and he is chafing considerably under the close confinement and Sheriff O’Connor has been taking him down into the corridors of the Jail for a little exercise occasionally. There are still three men serving sentences there for drunkenness or probably Dan would be given a little more room by being placed back in the down stairs cell. He had always been used to outdoor life, and spent much of his time hunting and fishing up and down the river, and it doubtless seems hard to him to be kept in a close small room. It is uncertain what will be done with him when his trial Is set, persons differing as to whether he should be sent to the asylum or the penitentiary.