Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1912 — LOVE JAILS YOUTH [ARTICLE]

LOVE JAILS YOUTH

Hears of Jealous Girl’s Deception and Returns to Cell. -. \ v A. B. Spain, Formerly of Albion, Ind., Violated Parole When Told Young Woman Spurned Him —Located at Memphis, Tenn. Jeffersonville, Ind. —Love for a girl and a desire to right a wrong he had done her through a misunderstanding, has prompted A. B. Spain, twentythree years old, to return to the state reformatory here to serve the remainder of a term from which he was paroled after a violation of that parole. Spain’s story came out the other day in Memphis, Tenn., where he had been working for some time. He said that he was reared on a farm near Albion, Noble county. Several years ago, In a prank, he, with others, stole several bushels of corn from a neighboring farmer. The latter failed to see the joke, caused the arrest of the hoys and some of them sentenced to the reformatory. Spain, who was one of those sentenced, served three years and two months of his time, and was then released on his promise, among others, not to leave the state. He returned to Albion and continued at the trade of a tailor, which he had begun to learn in a local institution. There was a girl. Spain loved her, and finally proposed and was accepted. Life seemed to hold nothing but joy. The wedding was to take place as soon as he had saved enough money to furnish * a comfortable home, j Then one day another girl came to him with a letter which she said was written*’by his fiancee. It was as follows: “Dear Bessie: lam going to look for a new flame and I want you fid help me. That jailbird still thinks I am crazy enough to marry him. Ho doesn’t have sense enough to know I have been laughing at him in my sleeves all the time.” Spain took the first train for Indianapolis. Then he jwent to Louisville, Ky., knowing he was violating hU promise not to leave the state, bast .caring not. Finally he reached Memphis and obtained employment. Recently he received a letter from his brother, with whom he had kept up a correspondence. This told him that the girl he had left web grieving for him, and that the one who showed him the note had acknowledged that she wrote It because of jealousy for her more fortunate friend. “I am going back and se'PVe my time,” said Spain. ‘‘Tt'S the square thing to do.”

called him “a dirty thief And a liar” in the presence of another employe of the warehouse. Mrs. Snow, whom the clubman married a few days after hi 6 divorce from his first wife, testified that soon after her husband had sailed for Europe in the summer of 1910 Mrs. Mitchell agreed that the warehouse which he represented would move her furniture and statuary for $360. When she found her furniture In the house at 185 Riverside drive she was so much pleased with the work that she presented Mitchell with a gold tie clasp and gave five dollars apiece to his men. She and her husband were not so pleased when the bill came, for it amounted to $660. Mitchell explained on the stand that the increased cost over the estimate was because he had received orders originally to pack the furniture for storage, and had had several men busy for 20 days doing the work. The jury at first brought In a verdict for the defendant. Counsel for. both sides admitted that the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict, and asked that the jury be sent back. They returned a few minutes with a verdict of $25.