The  Shelbyville  Democrat
Thursday, June 13, 1912
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GIVEN  BIG  FINE  FOR  INTOXICATION
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JOE  INNIS  FORCED  TO  COME  THRU  WITH  $18.30
AFTER  RESISTING  OFFICERS.
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          Joe Innis, of west Mechanic street, a young man well known in the city and county, was given one of the biggest fines and costs in the court of Justice Pryor this morning that has been handed out in this city in many months on the charge of intoxication.  He entered a plea of guilty and, staggered by the announcement that the amount he must pay was $18.30, he stated that he would go back in jail.  He was promptly accomodated, but shortly afterward paid up and was released.
          Innis was arrested late Wednesday afternoon by Officer Fagel and  James Moore, and he acted up so that they were forced to put the nippers on him.  Officer Fagel at first took the young man in charge, but he proved so troublesome that the sheriff, who happened to be near the scene of the arrest, took a hand.  Innis kicked and scratched like a madman till the officers succeeded in overcoming him and marching him off to the jail.
          This is not the first serious trouble Innis has been in on account of his habit of becoming intoxicated and he has always made the boast that no one man on the police force can take him to jail drunk or sober.  This is the second time he has made good on the boast, too, for Officer John Farrell undertook to removed him from a baseball diamond in the south part of the city, but was not able to get him to jail till Chief  Manlove rendered assistance.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

The  Shelbyville  Daily  Democrat
 Tuesday, February 20, 1906
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CASE  DISMISSED
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Charles Innis Was Not Tried This Afternoon
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          This morning  Prosecutor Bassett  telephoned to  Squire Tadlock  of Marion township, telling him to dismiss the case against  Charles Innis  on surety of the peace proceedings, begun by  Charles McCabe.
          This was the only thing that could be done as McCabe's departure for California prevents the state from having the slightest chance of making its case.  The hearing would have occurred this afternoon had not the affidavit been nollied.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

The  Shelby  Republican
 Friday, February 16, 1906
Page 1
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LETTER  SAYS  COUPLE  HAS  BEEN  MARRIED
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Frank  Innis,  Brother  of  Charles  Innis,
and  Young  Woman  in  Shelbyville.
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Have  Received  Letters  From ....
[I only have the headlines for this article.  All three of the Shelbyville papers followed this story for many days. - pmf]
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming


The  Shelby  Deomcrat
 Thursday, February 15, 1906
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DERRICKSON  ARRESTED
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Young Man Who Helped Irene McCabe to Escape With Innis is now on Bond
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From Monday's Daily.
          Frank Derrickson,  the young man who assisted  Irene McCabe to escape with  Charles Innis,  was arrested yesterday afternoon at his home in "Bugaboo."  Sheriff  Newton,  armed with a warrant, secured the young man and brought him to Shelbyville, where he was arraigned before Squire Webb.  He was released on bond, the amount being five hundred dollars.
          A number of attorneys of this city are skeptical concerning the chances Prosecutor Bassett has of making a case against the young man.  The statute regarding kidnaping specified that "whovere[sic] kidhaps, or forcibly or fraudulently carries off or decoys from any place within the state, or arrests or imprisons any person with the intention of having such person carried away from any place within this state" shall be guilty of the offense.  The element of consent enters into this crime, and there is no doubt that Miss McCabe consented to be carried off and was not forcibly taken by Derrickson.
          It seems that an attempt will be made to evade this difficulty ty trying to prosecute Derrickson under the statute making it a crime to "unite or combine with any person or persons for the purpose of committing a felony with or without the state."  The law making void a marriage outside the state when thepurpose is plainly to evade the laws of this state, and the parties expect to come back to reside, is relied upon.  A slight penalty may be attached to this, but in no sense is it a felony.  Hence, attorneys of this city incline to the theory that Bassett will find he has bitten off a bigger chunk than he can chew.
Copied by Phyllis Miller Fleming


The  Shelby  Republican
 Tuesday, February 13, 1906
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            [I am missing the first few paragraphs of this article.
... neighbor and was intending to hunt with it, when in passing the  Innis  home he saw  Derrickson  and knew that he was wanted on a warrant sworn out by himself.  He explained that he stood at the front gate and kept watch on the young man that he might not get away before the arrival of Sheriff Newton.  Derrickson's mother is said to have gone to the Innis home later yesterday afternoon and taken the young man home in a buggy, without suffering any molestation from the man with the shot gun.
            Unable to find  Prosecutor Bassett, who was in Rushville, Derrickson left.
            Frank Derrickson, who lies [lives?] near Mt. Pisgah, was arrested yesterday in connection with the elopement of  Charles Innis  and  Irene McCabe.  The young man is charged with complicity in an act, the purpose of which was to evade the provisions of the laws of Indiana regarding marriage license.  A provision in a marriage license last passed by the last legislature makes it a violation of a statute to leave the state to obtain a marriage license in another state.  There is no penalty attached to the act if the parties remain out of the state, but their return to Indiana for permanent residence, places them liable to prosecution.
            Derrickson is said to have taken the McCabe girl from her home in his buggy, and to have driven a short distance down the road where Innis waited with his rig.  There she was transferred to the other buggy and was driven away, pursued later by  Deputy Sheriff Ritchey  and her father in a buggy, and by  George Hess  and  George McCaulley  of St. Paul in an automobile.
            A preliminary rearing of the charges against Derrickson will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock before Justice Webb.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

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