Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1912 — IDA SHREEVES ARRESTED FOR FORGING CHECK. [ARTICLE]

IDA SHREEVES ARRESTED FOR FORGING CHECK.

Fifteen-Year-Old Girl Who Lived. With Parents hi Bene seiner In Tails at Gas City. Ida Shreeves, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Shreeves, was arrested at Gas City last Friday on a charge of forgery. The check which she is alleged to have cashed was drawn ou the State Bankof Oil laboro, and was for sls. She was taken to the sheriff’s office at Mancie. is daisied that the girl stole a watch at Mnncie *i few months ago but on accoaat of her tender age was not prosecuted. The charge of forgery against her will be tried in the juvenile court and It is probable that the girl will be sent to the reform school. Her father, S. R. Shreeves, claimed to be a preacher. He was In poor health during the years the famll.' lived In Rensselaer and unable to work, but he was a shiftless old man and had a large family of dependent children for whom the mother tried for some years to provide by hard work. The family moved about from one old house to another and never paid rent and very little else. An older Shreeves girl was found to have pilfered several money d roWers whe* the family lived here. It will be no surprise that she has shown a criminal disposition, for there were some strong hereditary tendencies.