Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1911 — ASKS TO BE RELEASED FROM HOPKINS’ BOND. [ARTICLE]

ASKS TO BE RELEASED FROM HOPKINS’ BOND.

“Farmer” Said to Have Returned Home Intoxicated and to Have Started Trouble Again. “Farmer” Hopkins returned to Rensselaer this morning from a business trip to Wabash and 1 other places and is said to have been intoxicated when he arrived home. As he is under a peace bond, given several weeks ago after he had had trouble at his home with his sons; his bondsman, A. F. Long, asked to be released from the bond as he was liable to a forfeiture if “Farmer” caused trouble. “Farmer” started home on foot and is said to have taken most of the road for a pathway between here and the Alter tile mill, north of town. He stopped at the mill and was so obnoxious that Mell Wood went to a nearby house and called by telephone for the sheriff. Sheriff Hoover went to the tile factory but by that time “Farmer’s” son had arrived and he offered to take his father home and he was loaded in a wagon. He later is said to have climbed, out of the wagon and to have entered the Belle Center school house, but this rumor was not confirmed. One report reached town was to the effect that he was armed with a revolver and a big knife and had made threats about what he would do to any one that tried to take him. This was not confirmed and the rumors were probably greatly exaggerated. From the residence of a farmer living on the route of his travel we were informed that he was not talking loudly and was thought not to be armed, but was very drunk. The requirements of release from a peace bond are that the bondsman must cause the bonded to be arrested and turned over to the sheriff and after some thought Mr. Long decided not to do this at the present time. Hopkins has disposed of his farm land in this county and expects to move away. He is very quarrelsome when drinking and he would appear to be a tolerably poor peace bond risk.