ARRESTED FOR STEALING WOOD 1874

TRIESTER, MCLENAN, CARSON

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 8/12/2016 at 21:06:32

Dubuque Herald, Jan. 4, 1874

ARRESTED FOR STEALING WOOD – Saturday morning Wm. Triester was arrested and arraigned in McLenan’s court on the charge of stealing, or to express it milder, of taking wood from the land of John Carson, four miles out on the road to Key West road. Carson bought the land from which the wood was taken in July last, and notified Triester, who had previously been in the habit of going there for wood, that he must not take any more of it. Trimester did not heed the command of the new freeholder, but wooded it up as usual, as a result he figured conspicuously in the police court as we have stated, and being found guilty was fined $1 and costs amounting to $17.20, in default of which he was sent to the county jail. Subsequently his attorney went to the jail paid the $1 and obtained Triester’s release. He could not be held a prisoner for the cost of the case in which he was sentenced, for the law provides that the costs are of the nature of a debt and nobody can be imprisoned for debt in this country.