Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1913 — Well Known Delphi Attorney is Dead. [ARTICLE]

Well Known Delphi Attorney is Dead.

Robert C. Pollard, 58 years old, one of the oldest members of the local bar and most prominent attorneys in this portion of the state, died at his home in Delphi at noon Tuesday, following an operation for appendicitis, performed a week ago. He was assisting the defense in the Michael murder trial at Logansport, but was forced to abandon his plea to the: jury and return home, the operation and death following. He was formerly associated in practice with his brother, Judge C. R. t*bllard, of Delphi, this firm later separating. Funeral services Thursday afternoon.

The world’s altitude record for an aeroplane carrying the pilot and a passenger was broken Tuesday by Edmond Perreyon, the French aviator, who rose to a height of 16,368 . feet, or 3.1 miles. Perreyon also holds the world’s altitude record for an aeroplane carrying only a pilot, having risen to a height of 16,615 feet at Buc, France, on March 13th this year.

Examining Board Adjudged Edward Fa why Insane.

An insanity inquest was held on Edward Pawley, the inmate of the county jail who has been causing so much trouble lately, and the members of the examining board, consisting of Doctors Hemphill, Johnson and Washburn, found him to be of unsound mind. In all probability application will immediately be made to have him committed to the hospital for the criminal insane, which institution is located at Michigan City. His actions of late are those of one who is laboring under hallucinations. As he explained the reason that he broke the windows in the jail was because he saw his enemies looking in at him and he threw at them, thus causing the damage to the windows. He is drawing a pension, having served in the Spanish American War, both in the Philippine Islands and Cuba. He stated that he was a member of the ill-fated band of American soldiers in the Philippines which was almost completely wiped out in a massacre in 1898, receiving a blow on the head at that time from which he never recovered. He also had an older brother who died in the county infirmary at Warsaw, being eomiriitted there for being of simple mind. His actions seem to bear out the theory of inherited degeneracy and coupled with the either real or fancied blow on the head made him a. fit candidate for the state institution for the criminal insane.