Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1910 — BUMGARDNER GETS TERM IN STATE REFORMATORY. [ARTICLE]

BUMGARDNER GETS TERM IN STATE REFORMATORY.

Newton County Lad Sent Up From 5 to 22 Years for Assault on Egnatz Friedl and Wife. Glenn Bumgardner, who was sent here from Newton county for keeping in our jail last fall and who remained until Wednesday of this week, when he was taken to Kentland for trial, received an indeterminate sentence of. from 5 to 22 years for the assault and attempted robbery of Egnatz Friedl and wife, not far from Conrad, on Oct, 22nd. According to the evidence, old man -Egnatz had some S2OO with which he was going to pay off a mortgage and he was stopping all night in a house near the home of his son-in-law, Walter Darby. Darby knew that he had the money and it was not supposed tc be known by any other person. Some time during the evening, Friedl and his wife heard persons talking outside the house and soon two men appeared at the window and made a demand for his money. His wife recognized the parties as being Arthur Darby, a brother of Walter Darby, and Bumgardner. They thought that it was only a joke and tried to treat it so, but finally the men told them that they would get the money by force. While they were trying to get into the house, Friedl hid the S2OO and when the men accosted him, he refused to tell where he had hid it. He had $5 and his watch, which the men took and when he refused to tell where the other money was, they tortured both be and his wife and beat them up very badly. After they had gone away Friedl got up and went in search oi aid and wandered around in the night In a cold rain. Mrs. Freidl furnished *he evidence that caused Bumgardner’s arrest, but Arthur Darby made bis escape. The day after the affair, Walter Darby brought to his father-in-law the $5 that had been stolen, and there was some circumstantial evidence that he was implicated with the others in the effort to rob the old -Iran.

Bumgardner was taken through Rensselaer this Saturday morning on his way to Jefferson to begin his sentence. He told several conflicting stories, one being that he was an orphan, but later he stated that his

father was living over in Illinois. He had lived in Newton county for about 6 years and seemed to be a sort of an outcast. He traveled with a bad set, and there are said to be a number oi that class in the neighborhood of Conrad. It is thought at one time during the trial that Prosecutor Longwell would be able to get him "to turn state’s evidence and tell the true story of the attempted robbery, but after Bumgardner consulted his lawyer, he refused to talk further. He is 22 years of age.