Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1913 — Peck Boy’s Mother Glad to Have Him Returned Home. [ARTICLE]

Peck Boy’s Mother Glad to Have Him Returned Home.

Marshal Shesler arrived home Sunday morning from Kankakee, 111., to which place he had taken Hubert Peck, the young man whose strange actions led Nfghtwatch Critser to think he contemplated suicide by jumping oil the Washington street bridge. The boy’s mother, who had been a former schoolmate of Mr Shesler, was glad to get him back and willingly paid all expenses. The boy formerly lived in Jasper county, being a son of Hiram Peek, who died after the removal of the family to Kankakee. Mrs. Peck is a sister ot P. P. Morton, of Goodland, The boy was in an insane asylum two years ago and his mental condition is bad. He acted peculiarly at Kankakee last week and officers saw him standing by the river there as though he was going to jump in. They apprehended him and took bim to the police station and he slipped out from there and came here. His mother was left in comfortable circumstances when his father died.