Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1913 — GOODNER RELEASED AFTER ARRIVAL HERE [ARTICLE]

GOODNER RELEASED AFTER ARRIVAL HERE

Man Who Skipped Out in 1908 Has Secured Confidence of Doctor at MitcheU, 8. Dak. Perry Goodner, the mafi who skipped out from Rensselaer on the night of Sept. 12, 1908, taking with him a team of mules said to have been mortgaged to John F. Judy, of Warren county, and a buggy belonging to John M. Knapp, of Rensselaer, was brought here Friday afternoon by Sheriff Hoover. As related in these columns several days ago, Hoover went to Mitchell, S. Dak., to get his man, having caused his arrest after requisitions had been procured from the governors of Indiana and North Dakota. Goodner was confined in a jail in the basement of the court house at Mitchell, the sanitary conditions of which Sheriff Hoover says are bad. Goodner was frightened and reported that he had eaten scarcely nothing since his arrest the Saturday before Hoover’s arrival, whicU was Wednesday morning. He waved all requisition matters after he learned that the sheriff had prepared himself with these papers. He arrived here Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock and was at once taken before Squire Irwin and bound over to the circuit court. His bond was fixed at S3OO and this was arranged tor, Dr. King, a physician at Mitchell, 8. Dak., wiring a cash bond to the First National Bank of Rensselaer. Goodner was released and started back to Mitchell, only four hours from the time of his arrival. Sheriff Hoover states that Goodner war known at MitcheU by,the name of Harry Brown and that he had been there about four years and had been farming on his own hook. This year he moved to a larger farm than he had been running before, and Dr. King, of Michell, is backing him. He had several head of cows and 20 head of sows and other stock and from what Sheriff Hoover could learn he was making good. Goodner was recently married, under his right name, the sheriff thinks.

The charge here Is, however, a serious one, and Goodner will be lueky If he escapes with anything short of a penitentiary sentence. His arrest was made on an affidavit sworn out soon after the buggy was stolen. Goodner had a family here and they remained for some time after he skipped out. They never heard from him and it Is reported that Mrs. Goodner afterward procured a divorce, but if she did ill was after her removal