Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1913 — Political Nuisance Landed In Jail for Abusing Wife. [ARTICLE]

Political Nuisance Landed In Jail for Abusing Wife.

Many Rensselaer people, especially republicans who have attended tenth district conventions during the past five years, will recall a man named John Levandowski, who never missed a convention nor missed a drink. He first came to Rensselaer as a missionary in the cause of James E. Watson, when the latter was a candidate for the republican nomination for governor. In justice to Mr. Watson it may be £aid that he did not even know Levandowski at the time. Levandowski was then engaged in some street construction work at Monticello. He was intoxicated when he came here and received no attention, but made himself conspicuous and talked incessantly. On the day of the republican county convention he was again here and in the same Inebriated condition. By some means he usually procured a proxy to all conventions. Last fall he joined the progressive ranks and attended one or two meetings at Rensselaer, the district convention at Hammond and another meeting or two at Monticello. He was invariably intoxicated and annoyed and embarrassed about every person at the convention.

He has lately been living.at Dayton, Tippecanoe county, and of him The Lafayette Sunday Times says: “Mrs. Grace Levandowski, of Dayton, who on Thursday brought suit in the circuit court for"divorce from her husband, John F. Levandowski, last Friday appealed to Sheriff Fisher for protection. She said that her husband had returned home without her consent, was under the influence of liquor and was annoying her. Sheriff Fisher, accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Dolph, drove to Dayton in an automobile, arrested Levandowski and • brought him to the city and placed him in jail. It was the second the that Sheriff Fisher had gone to Dayton within a week at the request of Mrs. Levandowski, but the husband was released the first time as soon as the officer reached this city with him.”