News

JOHNSON, Peter of Maple Hill, was tried before Judge Durfee last Monday afternoon on a charge of assault and battery preferred against him by John Cederslrom. The trouble occurred last Friday at the latter's home at Devil's Track lake, when Johnson, who lives a half mile away, came over there looking for his cows. Cederstrom is an old man, 64 years of age. There were no witnesses to the fight but the old man's face was so bruised and blackened that he was hardly recognizable, while Johnson bore no mark of the struggle, excepting that he exhibited a torn coat in support of his claim of self defense. The evidence was contradictory, but Cederstrom claimed that the assault was entirely unprovoked and that Johnson pounded him into insensibility and then went away and left him lying on the ground.

Recovering consciousness be dragged himself to the school house, where he was cared for by Albert Rindahl, after which he was taken to a neighbor's and a doctor called to attend him. As a result of the trial Johnson was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars and costs, or sixty days in jail. Being unable to pay the fine, the justice allowed him sixty days time in which to raise the same-this act of leniency being shown out of consideration for his family. Cook County News Herald May 6, 1915

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