Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1912 — Over Ardent Game Wardens Arrest But Did Not Convict Boy. [ARTICLE]

Over Ardent Game Wardens Arrest But Did Not Convict Boy.

Starke County Republican. Steve Urbanski, an eighteen year old South Bend boy was arrested and taken from the evening train on the 3-1, Thursday evening by a couple of game wardens. Urbdnski and a young companion had been down near Tefft hunting and were returning home with a bunch of rabbits. The wardeps approached them -and demanded to be shown their hunting licenses. Both boys had licenses, but the Urbanski boy’s had expired the first of the month. The wardens siezed upon this as a pretext to arrest the fellow and they' took him off the evening train and lodged him in-jail. Urbanski had no money to hire a lawyer, and hearing Of his predicament Attorney W. J. Reed voluntarily appeared for him. It took the jury ten minutes to set the boy free in Justice Rogers’ court, Friday.