Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1913 — JAMES HAYNES IS VERY MUCH WANTED [ARTICLE]

JAMES HAYNES IS VERY MUCH WANTED

Circular Charges Him With Selling Mortgaged Horses—Deserted Wife and Children Here. The effort that James Haynes made to reform, or perhaps It may be more correctly, stated to say the effort that friends made to reform him, seem to have been wasted. Haynes left Rensselaer some weeks ago,leaving behind his poor wife and several children. His name was coupled with that of a married woman who deserted her husband. Mrs. Haynes and children were taken to Hlinois, where homes are said to have been procured for them.

Now Haynes seems to have returned to his old life and Sheriff Hoover is in receipt of a circular describing him and offering a reward of S3OO for his arrest. He is charged with having sold four mortgaged horses and then skipped out. It is claimed here that . Haynes served a term in the penitentiary for horse or cattle stealing some time ago and various charges were made against him during the time he lived in this county, but he seemed to keep everything under cover if there was any truth in the things told of him. He is the man that had the battle with the game wardens about-three years ago. It was some of his relatives that were charged with chicken stealing and with the shipment of wild game out of the state, and it was a relative of who almost killed a Monticello man in a poker joint. It is said that Haynes accompanied the man to Monticello and was ip the poker room when the trouble started.

C. F. Mansfield thought Haynes would be “on the square” if given a chance and he put him In charge of his large farm, put money in the bank for hjm to check on and gave him his chance to reform. He went along steadily for some time, .but could not hold out. Finally he skipped out and a reckoning showed that he had violated the confidence of the man who wanted to beJiis friend. J The stealing of Frank King's horse was thought by many to be his job, and it is stated that only a day or two after the horse was stolen he passed through Rensselaer one evening. Haynes has the face, the action, and the style of a shrewd criminal, and it is quite probable that he is leading that kind of a life now. His apprehension will probably result in him receiving a long sentence.