Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1913 — ASSAULTS MONTICELLO SUPERINTENDENT [ARTICLE]

ASSAULTS MONTICELLO SUPERINTENDENT

Thornt Perrigo Uses Handle of Mattock in Retaliation for a Whipping Given Son.

Monticello Herald. Supt. Chas. Jackman is confined to his bed today as the result of an assault made upon him this morning by Thornt Perrigo. The trouble happened at the alley crossing at Chas. Parks’ residence. Perrigo met Jackman there and entered into a harangue about Tackman’s having punished his boy too severely yesterday. Jackman-treated him very nicely, but talked to the point about the punishment. Perrigo drew back to strike the school man with a piece of mattock handle he was carrying, and Jackman caught the bludgeon, and after scuffling a bit let go of the same possibly thinking that Perrigo would not attempt to use jt again. Thornt, though, did come back at Jackman with a blow that put the latter on his knees, but not before he had hit Perrigo a heavy blow with his fist. The second blow of the cudgel caught Jackman back and over the right eye, raising a huge welt, bruising and cutting the flesh and blackening the eye George Wigmore and John War fel were witnesses to the affray. Wigmore saw Perrigo going toward the school man with his club, and remembering that he had heard last evening of threats being made, watched to see what might happen. He and Warfel, when the club was raised, started to rush in to stop the trouble, but were not quick enough to prevent the blow. The melee grew out of the whipping of Perrigo’s son, Sam, who had been sent up to the superintendent’s office by his teacher, Miss Miller, on a charge of impertinence and insubordination. Jackman proceeded to chastise hinj, using a piece of garden hose, usually used in such cases, and the boy proving obstreperous he proceeded to use a board paddle, as nearly as can be learned. The lad kept up a cry of “murder” and “help” for the most of the period, that it was claimed could be heard all over the building. The father claimed that the punishment drew blood on the boy sufficient to soak through the lad’s underclothing, and that he had witnesses to prove the same. The irate parent threatened last evening to chastise Superintendent Jackman and proceeded to do so this morning. The proposition is a bad one, and will be a much worse one if there proves to be a fractured skull as the result of the blow.

Several have found fault with the use of corporal punishment in the schools this past winter," but the fact remains that something had to be done to correct conditions that were ruining the good the schools should do, and it seems that the faculty has not hesitated to go after what seemed to be duty, without fear or favor. It has made some of them unpopular with some people, but the influence of the discipline can be seen in the school rooffi and on the street.

See our line of buggies. HAMILTON & KELLNER T). O. Maple has resigned as high school principal at Huntington to take a similar position in Kokomo. The Keystone is the most popular disc n: the market. It is sold by Hamilton & Kellner.

Attorney George Palmer, 83 years old, prominent at Evansville for fifty years, was stricken with paralysis Tuesday on a street ear and died in an hour.

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The four-»story building of the American Pressed Brick company, a mile east of Michigan City, was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday night. The flames were started by a spark from a Michigan Central locomotive. The loss is $30,000, with no Insurance.

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Announcement was made Wednesday that the Baltimore & Ohio Railway company will spefid SBO,000 for building new railroad yards and terminals at Miller station, east qf Gary, and that the famous sand dimes used by the car bandits and other criminals will disappear.

Rev. L B. Hastings, rector of St. John’s Episcopal church in Elkhart, hereafter will refuse to marry couples unless both parties to the union submit a certificate from a reputable physician showing that examination has convinced him that the subjects are physically and mentally fit for marriage.

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