Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1911 — WOMAN ASKS VINDICATION. [ARTICLE]

WOMAN ASKS VINDICATION.

Declares Being Taken for Mrs. Gunness Makes Life Unbearable. Laporte, Ind., July 18.—William E Antis, deputy sheriff of Laporte county at the time of the Gunness murders were uncovered, received a heartrending appeal from Mrs. B. E. Peterman of Everett, Wash., praying the Indiana authorities to take immediate steps tj prove to'the people of Everett that the Is not the murderess. The recent trip of Antis to Washington at tbe suggestion of the Governor of that state, that a woman answering Mrs. Gunness’s description had been found, had its climax in the people of the Washington town ostracising Mrs. Peterman. She says she is scoffed at on the streets, that her children have been subjected to ridicule, that they have been driven fro* school and that an attempt was made to poison them She wants affidavits forwarded to Everett at once to prove that she is not Mrs. Gunness. To set the woman right in the community, the necessary papers will be prepared and sent to the Western town. z