Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-11
SHORT AND SWEET.
Such was the Trial of the Jones
Company.
MADE AN EXPENSIVE VACATION
Travelling Medicine Men settle with the
>iagged Ones. Pay Il Nominal Fine
and say ''Au KeNoir.
MADE AN EXPENSIVE VACATION

Our friends. the versatile and highly
advertised members of the DIR. Jones
medicine company, travelling vendors
of healing lotions, entertainers of the
dear, kind public and incidentally illus
traitors of the massage treatment as
applied to the human physio ynomy, are
no longer with us. They have packed
their grips like the Midway Arabs and
as silently slid outside the municipal
corporation.
Thus falls the closing curtain upon
the last scene in the warm, rosy tinted
little comedy which has had all the
community agog for the past week.
It's all over now. Justice has been sat
islied. Noble Rohr has ceased his noble
roar (copyrighted), the erstwhile guests
of the local bastile have shaken the
figurative dust of Plymouth from their
generous goloshes, long string of
officials have a little old wad of Uncle
SANS greenbacks slowed away In their
inside pockets for fees and costs, etc,
and town wiseacres can take their fami-
ly thermometers out of the iceboX and
change the street corner discussion
around TO the topic of Brother Carlisle's
latest bond issue.
1t took just at out steen minutes in
the circuit court yesterday evening to
settle the whole business. The defend
ants had been moving toward an early
| trial. That is, those outside of Jail had.
The other two hadn't moved great
deal, seeing as it wasn't their move yet.
The last move they made, they jump
ed man, and it got them INTO trouble.
Attorney Kellison had been engaged
to assist the state in the circuit court,
and the hearing was finally arranged for
Tuesday evening after supper.
DIR. +. 6. Jones, one of the proprietors
! of the combination, came down Satur
day and began arranging to end the
trouble as rapidly as possible. This
Doctor Jones is considerable of a lawyer
himself, and he knew about what the
probabilities were.
lie canyassed the situation pretty
thoroughly, noticed the differences in
general opinion as typiied in the street
corner conversaziones and then hunted
up the prosecuting witnesses To discuss
the matter in business way.
The immediate result of this work on
the part of the doctor with the very un
common name was soon apparent. lie
had common-sense way of looking at
things and he also had money to burn a
wet dog with.
Between and o'clock there came
lull "a quiet moment or two In the cir
cult court. Then the business was call
ed up. Mr.. Rohr was some place inside
the corporation, and i'll the left hand
pocket of his vest lay nicely folded away
five large, long, pretty SO bills.
He had met Doctor Jones sometime
previous.
Farmer Riddle, whose house had
been smashed into and turned
topsy-turyey generally during the Sensa-
tional melee of last week was also some
place around looking at the pictures on
fifty dollars worth of Uncle Sans long
green art publications.
Mr. Riddle had also run across Doctor
Jones somehow.
Doctor Jones and the rest of the de-
PENDANTS were on hand, with their at
torneys, Martindale and stevens. The
Doctor had bankful of money left to
throw at the snow birds. Judge Capron
was shown that the prosecuting wit
nesses and injured parties had been set
tied with and We're satisfied. The
State was willing to agree to nominal
fine, and the defense was willing to
square up and say "quits." So they
plead guilty, fine of one dollar and
costs was assessed by the Judge. 1t
was promptly settled, the costs of
the hearing in the lower court were
paid, the prisoners were discharged,
Marshal Myers pulled his mOustaches
out another half an inch and the band
played on.
That's how Jones he paid the freight,
and it cost him something between
three and four hundred dollars to pay
it, at low estimate.
And the first train out of town had
the troupe aboard bound for pastures
new. When the people who had read
the announcement of the evening trial
in TIE DAILY INDEPENDENT arrived
az the courtroom, the whole affair was
a "reminiscences.