Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1910 — WHITE COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF ARRESTS CONVICT. [ARTICLE]

WHITE COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF ARRESTS CONVICT.

Paroled Man From Prison North Accased of Fraud and Captured East of Rensselaer. Monticello Journal of Thursday. After an all night drive Deputy Sheriff Davisson succeeded in capturing Thomas Ferguson last night, or rather early this morning, about eight miles east of Rensselaer. Sheriff Price and he had been on the lookout for Ferguson for more than two months and had made several unsuccessful trips out around Rahkin but the man always eluded them. This time he was planning to leave, today for lowa. He was arrested on a charge of obtaining money under false pretense over in Cass county and will have to be taken back there for trial. His game was to sell hogs which he did not own and secure an advance on the sale. Ferguson is now out on parole from State Prison North and still has four years of an unexpired sentence to serve. A warden of that institution waS down in this and Jasper county last'week trying to find him. He will be taken to Logansport at noon.