Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1910 — GAME WARDENS HID NOT CAPTURE “JIM” HAINES. [ARTICLE]

GAME WARDENS HID NOT CAPTURE “JIM” HAINES.

Spent Gie Night on Watch, But Did Not See Him—Learned That He is Still At His Hone. James Donley and Al Gillian, the game wardens who made an unsuccessful effort to capture James Haines, of Milroy township, whom they wished to prosecute for alleged violations of the state game law, have not yet succeeded in capturing their man. They went to the scene of their encounter with him Wednesday evening and talked with some neighbors of the man. From what they could learn Haines had gone to his home after they returned to town and had not left. It was claimed that he had some reinforcements from the neighborhood and that they had, barricaded themselves in the house and would refuse to sur-' render. Donley and Gillian do not relate what they did, but they did not go to the house. This Thursday morning they returned to Rensselaer and sought a bench warrant for the arrest of the man. Judge Hanley Was' undecided whether he was empowered to issue such a warrant in vacation of the court and the men went to Justice Irwin and procured a warrant. They will ask that the sheriff or a deputy accompany them’ to Haines* home and assist in making the arrest. The game wardens are criticised by some for having undertaken to make the arrest without a warrant in the first place, but they claim that they were acting within their power. They communicated over long distance telephone with George W. Miles, the state fish and game commissioner and were authorized to offer a reward of SSO for the arrest and delivery to the sheriff of Haines. They .state that Haines served a term in the penitentiary for the theft of cattle near Monon and think that he is now out on parole. They state that there are other serious charges against him and that his neigbors live in fear of him. It was neighbors, so we are informed, who furnished the first evidence to the wardens about Haines shipping prairie chickens out of the state and which resulted in the visit from Donley and Gillian.