Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-27

called.
3 :55-County Graduation.
Discussion led by County
Superintendent.
The amount of good you receive
from a Teachers Meeting depends,
greatly upon the amount of energy
you put forth to make it a success.
So let us all be ready with our
Ask your School Board,
Patrons and Pupils to meet with
US. These meetings are to pro-
mote the cause of Education. If
you have a boy or girl in school it
is your duty to look after their ed
ucation. Come, and let us all
work together for better Schools.
| am,
Very Respectfully,
B. P. BURNHAM,
County Superintendent.
The following interesting special,
dated Hillsboro, Mo, January II,
1910, was printed in the Globe
Democrat of the 18th: "After sit
ting on the bench two weeks in
the Jefferson County Circuit Court
trying two cases in which George
Partney of De Soto was charged
with forging chattel mortgages on
sewing machines, with an acquit-
tai in each case, Judge Joseph
Williams discharged the juries
after giving both a lecture on the
fate of society if iuries insisted on
letting violators of the law go un.
punished. Both juries were dis
charged with the final remark that
the state of Missouri had no further
use for such men as jurors and
that they could apply to the clerk
and get their jury fees. The jan
uary term of the Jefferson County
Circuit Court opened two weeks
ago. Informations had been filed
against Partney, a former Singer
sewing machine agent, in two
cases, on complaint of the COM
pany. He was charged with
selling machines for cash and re-
porting them to the company as
having been sold on time pay
ments, forwarding the company,
with his report, chattel mortgages
on the machines signed, in many
instances, by fictitious persons.
He vas charged with being short
about $500. The two cases we're
the first on the docket, and were
prosecuted by Prosecutor Miller,
assisted by Attorneys Byrns and
Bean. Frazier and Edgar were
attorneys for the defendant. On
the first charge, after a hard fought
contest, the jury, in charge of a
deputy sheriff retired, and while
they were celebrating a second
jury was sworn and the trial of
Partney on the second trial was
commenced. All the next day,
while the jury in case No. 1 was
celebrating, the new trial went
on. To prevent the jury in the
second case from being influenced
by the finding of the jury in the
first the Judge excluded the Sec
ond while the jury in the first re-
ported its verdict, an acquittal.
Then Judge Williams proceeded
to define some of the duties OF
%juries, and ended by saying the
state had no further use for such
men as jurors. Twelve disgrunt-
led men, who had been summoned
from different parts of the county
for four weeks service went home.
Case No. 2 proceeded for several
days, and the jury was out two
days until Saturday morning. Nc
information of the verdict of the
first jury and what followed had
been allowed to reach them, as
they were guarded day and night.
The verdict was the same as in
the first case, and was followed by
a like rebuke and dismissal. The
defendant in the case was born
and raised in Jefferson county,
and is at present employed by a
grocery company at De Soto. He
has a wife and five children"
Elmer Newman, deputy post
master at Ironton, mysteriously
disappeared from his home in this
city some time last Friday night
or early Saturday morning. The
young man, who made his home
with his widowed mother, Mrs
Luella Newman, retired as usual
Friday night, and that was the las
seen of him. Next morning his
absence from the house was noted
but the family supposed he had
gone to the post-ofice to perform
his duties and would return for
his breakfast later. AS the morn
ing passed, however, inquiry was
made and it was learned that he
had never been at the post office.
nor had anyone seen anything Of
him. This oceasioned alarm and
search was at once instituted fol
him. Hunting parties organized
and all day Saturday and Sunday
every nook and corner of the val
ley and vicinity were searched, but
in vain. Not a trace has been
discovered Of the missing boys
whereabouts, and he seems to
have disappeared rs completely
as If the earth had swallowed him.
kilograms and telephone mes.
sages have been sent to all the
surrounding towns, but no one
seems to have seen him. Various
theories are advanced as to the
probable cause for the young
mans mysterious disappearance
but they are all guess work. Some
few think that the missing lad has
met with foul play, but this II
hardly likely. Elmer was Of Q