Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1911 — WOMAN WENT JOT RIDING; AUTO KILLED A MAN. [ARTICLE]

WOMAN WENT JOT RIDING; AUTO KILLED A MAN.

Conscience Stricken She Wrote Under Assumed Nome From Francesvllle—Found by Detectives. / t On Ewb. 27th John J. Bohn, a prominent Chicago man, was run down and killed by an automobile. The machine did not stop, but sped away and the matter remained a complete mystery until a brother of the dead man received a letter postmarked Frances-' ville and signed by Mrs. Jeanette Louisa Phleger, in which she confessed that she was in the machine when the man was killed. She said that she had confessed to the priest and he had advised that she write to the man's relatives. Two later letters were received, one from Francesville and one from Medaryville. Then the woman, on appointment with detectives, went to Chicago and met them, reciting her part in the tragedy. She stated that she was visiting in Chicago and had accepted an invitation from a couple of young men to dine out and then have a joy ride. They were on the ride when the fatal accident occurred. The men were driving very recklessly according to the woman. She promised to remain in Chicago and to tell her story to a coroner’s Jury, but suddenly disappeared. The detectives were in Francesville Sunday, April 2nd, trying to find out the woman lived, but they could get no information about her. On Tuesday the officers went to Medaryville, where they located the woman. Her name proved to be Mrs. James Fassett. She is the wife of a barber and the couple have lived in Medaryville but a short time. The woman was taken to Chicago where she will be held as a witness in the killing episode. It is understood that the men with whom she was riding are regarded as a bad set and a charge of manslaughter is pending against them. A fifteen-year-old girl in a neighboring town, who was in the habit of making the trains and flirting with the trainmen, succeeded recently In landing a beau. She gayly consented when he asked her to walk home with her. Her newly-formed acquaintance asked to be led to her home, and upon arriving there he boldly rang the bell. Her mother came to the door, and Mt. Traveling Man delivered a short lecture something like this: “Madam : here’s your little girl. I picked Jier up at the depot, a place where girls of her age should not go alone, unless on business. I have a daughter at home about the age of this one. lam away from home a good deal and don’t know for certain whether my daughter meets the trains and flirts with trainmen and passengers or not, but if she does I hope some one will do that which I have done—take her home to her mother."