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Clayton Co. Justice & Court Proceedings
... as reported in the 1948
newspapers
~compiled & transcribed by Reid R. Johnson for Clayton Co. IAGenWeb
| Three veterans' clubs in Clayton county
pleaded guilty to charges of illegal possession of
alcoholic liquor and illegal possession of gambling
devices before Judge W. H. Antes Monday afternoon. Fines
of $300. and costs on each of the two charges were
assessed against each of the clubs. The clubs were:
Amvets club, National; American Legion club, McGregor;
and Vets club, Elkader. ~Clayton County Register, 29 Jan. 1948 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Melvin Noggle, Elkader, appeared before Justice of the Peace Ray Barton Tuesday on a charge of reckless driving of a motor vehicle and was fined $90. and costs. ~Clayton County Register, 26 Feb. 1948 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robert Meyer, Elkader, was sentenced to one year in jail on a charge of larceny and Nick Miller was fined $500. and costs and given a six-month suspended sentence on a charge of receiving stolen goods by Judge T. H. Goheen here Monday. Miller was paroled to Sheriff A. W. Mueller during good behavior. The men had pled guilty to the theft of 17 cases of eggs from the Taylor Produce Co., Volga City, Feb. 14. Meyer was accused of the theft and taking the eggs to the Miller home, Miller then sold some of the eggs to a produce company in St. Olaf. Stanley Sampson was fined $300. and costs and his driver's license was suspended as provided by law, by Judge T. H. Goheen, Monday, for driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Sampson, who is employed on a farm near Farmersburg, plead guilty. The charge resulted from an accident in Giard Sunday afternoon, in which Sampson's car struck a new car severely damaging it but causing no severe injuries to its occupants. ~Clayton County Register, 15 Apr. 1948 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Walter H. Jennings, Garber, appeared before Judge W. H. Antes Monday and pleaded guilty to a charge of assault with intent to commit rape. Sentence was for ten years at hard labor at the penitentiary at Ft. Madison. The assault attempt involved a five-year-old girl. Jennings had previously been convicted of a felony on Nov. 06, 1939. ~Clayton County Register, 02 Sept. 1948 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hiram Larson, Elkader, was fined $10 and costs by Justice Ray Baton on a charge of operating a motor vehicle without a license. ~Clayton County Register, 30 Sept. 1948 |
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