12 August 1882/Ste. Genevieve Herald/Indictments

Ste. Genevieve Herald
Ste. Genevieve, Mo.
Saturday, 12 August 1882

THOSE INDICTMENTS

We see by the Circuit Court Record of May session 1882,
that indictments were found by the Grand Jury against Ed.
SEYSSLER and Mrs. J. FALK for selling goods on Sunday.
In the former case the informant was Frank THOMAS, in
the latter it was Gus. SCHOETTLER. Both these informants
are employees of the parties indicted; both are honest and
grateful and would not injure their employers willingly.
Does the prosecuting attorney mean to say that they, of
their own accord, came before the Grand Jury to inform on
their benefactors? If they did not, who organized himself
into a busy body, or a smelling committee of one and went
noseing 'round to find out who was guilty of selling a flitch
of bacon on Sunday?