Indictment for Murder

WESTON, HOOVER, COLE

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 8/16/2009 at 21:48:27

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, February 1, 1894.

Indictment for murder.

With the adjournment of the grand jury, an indictment was returned, charging Marshall Henry Weston, of Bellevue, with the murder of Hiram Hoover, at the Harmony Park dance near Bellevue, Sunday morning, December 31, when the latter was fatally shot in a fracas between himself and Weston, the trouble having risen over Hoover’s divorced wife who was present. Attorney Miller of LaCrosse, and Hiram Hoover, of Genoa, Wisconsin, the father of the young man, brought the evidence before the grand jury to secure the indictment. Weston, who is a bachelor, about 45 years of age and a resident of Bellevue all these years, is an inoffensive looking individual, whose river stories have given him the name of “Mirac” for the reason that some of his “oldest settlers” tales are said to be miraculous. When arrested under the indictment, his attorney, Eli Cole, secured the signatures of 52 Bellevue citizens to his bail bond, said citizens being able to qualify in the sum of $850,000, if needed, says attorney Cole.