Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1911 — TRICKY TENANTS WERE MAKING A GET-AWAY. [ARTICLE]

TR ICKY TENANTS WERE MAKING A GET-AWAY.

Charged With SeOhf Faria Products And Skipping From Farter Ceantjr "v>F Without Pacing Bent Sheriff C, A. Wood, of Porter county, hla deputy, a W. Lindall, and John J. Wise, all in an automobile driven by Sidney Ainsworth, had a desperate chase Tuesday night that ended in Rensselaer at about 4:50 o’clock Wednesday morning. ' The efforts of the tenants of a farm belonging to Mr. Wise’s Urether-ia-law, Mrs. A. Hankins, to get across the state line into Illinois, was the cause of the pursuit . According to Wise his mother-in-law had rented her farm of 480 acres near Valparaiso to Charles and John Lewin. The conditions of the lease was that SSOO was to be paid as rent on Sept. Ist and $1,506 on Jan.. Ist The September note was met and it was thought by the owner of the farm that about all the corn raised on 160' acres was in cribs on the place, thusfurnishing her protection for the rent and also for a note ror SSOO given for stock and implements purchased at Mrs. Hankins’ sale. ’", But Wise states that the Lowing loaded all the corn into cars and shipped it to Chicago without the knowledge of the owner of the farm, and that while Chas. Lewin went to Chicago to collect for the corn, the women went to Illinois, and the other brother and his two boys and the son of Chas. Lewin pulled out overland with thirteen head of horses and four wagons loaded with household goods. Mr. Wise did not learn about the exit of the tenants until about midnight Tuesday night and he went at once to Crown Point and got an automobile to take him over to Valparaiso, where he swore out a writ of attachment and secured the services of Sheriff Wood and Deputy Sheriff LindaH. They got track of the fleeing Lewins and learned that they had passed through DeMdtte at about if o’clock Tuesday afternoon, and they pulled out in pursuit, leaving Valparaiso at just 2:10 a. m. Wednesday morning. The trip to Rensselaer was made in just 2 hours and 40 minutes and Mr. Wise and the officers arrived in Rensselaer at just 4:50, which was making good time, considering the fact that the temperature was at the zero mark. They found John Lewin and his two sons and the son of Chas. Lewin all registered at the Makeever hotel, and also found the horses wagons, etc., all at the Norgor hitcn barn. They secured the services of' Sheriff Hoover and all of the effects were attached. The Lewins consulted Dunlap & Parkinson and at once instituted a proceeding to replevin the property, and a hearing on this will be held at the expiration of three days. The basis of this action is a claim that a part of the property does not belong to the Lewins and the attorneys are filing a schedule far exemption that they think will cover all the property that did belong to the Lewins. Wise states that the Lewins shipped almost 5,000 bushels of corn and as they had settled for the rent of the farm by giving notes, they evidently planned to beat Mrs. Haskins out of the money and it may be that they will succeed in doing it. Once out of the state the collection of the notes would have be£h an impossibility and there wduld have been no protection.