Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1912 — Returned Evil for Good [ARTICLE]

Returned Evil for Good

Tramp Cared for by Clergyman for Three Years Robs His Benefaotor —Is Now in Jail. Detroit.—Rev. C. L. Arnold, head of the Arnold home, a charitable institution, is seeking the Imprisonment for a long term of Claude Cameroon. The clergyman and his wife had befriended Camerson and given him a chance to lead an honest life Only to be subjected to robbery several times and finally assault when Cameroon tried to shoot them. “I first met the fellow three years ago,” said Mr. Arnold, "when he came to the Arnold home looking like a tramp after .having beaten his way from Toledo. He asked for something to eat and I gave him his dinner and a bath, afterward getting him a job. “He stayed at the home and shortly after I got him the job he took the key to my house, which I kept at the home, went there and stole S6O. He then calmly went back to the home, put back the key and left. He returned later and I decided to forget the theft and give him another trial. “I got him another job aa night watchman for the Pere Marquette railroad, and for awhile he behaved himself. After three months,, however, he broke into my house again and stole $45. “About three months afterward he sat In the alley beside my house one night while people were passing along the nearby avenue, and removed a pane of glass without breaking 1L All he got for his trouble was Mr*. Ai*

nold’s watch and a dollar’s worth of stamps. When on the night of his last visit I found the screen tampered with I knew that Camerson was back again, and made up my mind to catch him.” Mr. Arnold notified the police of his suspicions and asked that his house be watched. That night the couple, who are well past middle life, looked over their house before going to bed, but somehow missed the spare bedroom. Cameron was there hiding. He beard them check up tome accounts of the Arnold home and speak of $75 that the minister had with him. After the couple had gone to bed Camerson entered their room, and Mrs. Arnold awcke to find a revolver pointed at her. She screamed, and Mr. Arnold bounded out of bed and fought the Intruder. The minitAr forced up the revolver and held it up while Cameroon fired two shots. Mr*. Arnold finally ggt hold of « goldheaded cane belonging her husband, and with this beat all the fight out of the man. Neighbors had heard the- shots, and they and the polio* came after Cameroon had been secured. The fellow was taken to jail, and Is awaiting trial on several aocoonts that would keep him In a cell for life If he should get the fall p*n» -MMo. '' * - ; L-, ■ ■ ' . ,