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AGAINST FILLNER IS DISMISSED TODAYFIND WOMAN GAVE HIM WATCHHE WAS CHARGED WITH TAKINGThe hearing .of the ease against Archie Fillner, charged with larceny of* a watch* at Nekoosa, Sunday, came up I before Judge W. H. Getts this mom*! ing and the case was dismissed. Evi- j dence taken showed tlmt the watch belonged to Mrs. Eva Williams and that she gave it to Fillner for safe keeping, and he had not taken it as the complaint charged.Mrs. Eva Williams swore that the watch belonged to her, being left her by her deseased husband, and that shetook it from the house and gave it to Fillner on July 11 for safe keeping.William Webber, who made the complaint, is Mrs. William’s uncle. He stated that before his death* Mr. Williams promised him the watch- No such promise was reiterated after the marriage, however. he; admitted.On the basis of these facts, Judge W. H. Getts dismissed the case. The; title of the watch* might have been! Questioned, -but Mrs. ’Williams, at [ close of the hearing, gave tht watch i to William Webber. i
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Grand Rapids Daily Tribune
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Jul 16, 1920
Page 4
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