Joe Menard of Hemingray struck fellow employee with a hammer

[Newspaper]

Publication: The Muncie Morning Star

Muncie, IN, United States
vol. 40, no. 202, p. 6, col. 1-3


SERVE NINETY DAYS

RESULT OF SPREE


Charles Snideman Draws Real

Package When He Appears

Before Judge Mansfield.


Charles Snideman, a junker, was fined $50 and costs, totalling $60, and sentenced to serve thirty days in jail yesterday when he pleaded guilty in City Court to a charge of intoxication, the third offense. He will spend ninety days at the Indiana state farm, because of his inability to pay the fine and costs, the Indiana statutes making prohibitory the confinement of a prisoner in the county jail for a pe­riod longer than sixty days. Snideman was arrested Wednesday night.

Jesse Conners, laborer, was assessed the maximum penalty when he pleaded guilty to firing revolver shots across a public highway. He was fined $3 and costs. Conners was ar­rested Tuesday afternoon, suspected of having fired upon Officer Lee Borman last Sunday morning at Hoyt avenue and Sixth street, he told the court that he had imbibed freely dur­ing Saturday evening and could remember firing several revolver shots. "I don’t know whether I shot at any­body, though," he said.

Cyrus Hole, a laborer, was fined $5 and costs, totalling $15, when he pleaded guilty to intoxication, the sec­ond offense. He was arrested Wednesday night.

Joe Menard, a laborer, pleaded not guilty to the charge of assault and battery upon Lester Speaker, colored, and was released under $500 bond. He will be given a hearing when Speak­er's condition permits. Menard was arrested Tuesday afternoon after, it is alleged, he struck Speaker on the head with a hammer during a quarrel at the Hemingray glass factory. Speaker underwent an operation Wednesday because of a fracture of the skull and was removed to his home in Whitely yesterday.


Keywords:Hemingray
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Researcher:Bob Stahr
Date completed:August 21, 2023 by: Bob Stahr;