Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1913 — WIFE DESERTER IN LIMBO AT MOROCCO [ARTICLE]

WIFE DESERTER IN LIMBO AT MOROCCO

Erastus Glaze Arrested For Desertion After Death of His 15-Years-Old Girl.

Brook, Ind., Aug. 14.—-Charged with deserting his family and leaving his wife and children to the charity of neighbors, Erastus Glaze was brought here today from Parke county by Alonzo Linton and Claude Sauer who had been deputized as sheriffs. He was given a preliminary hearing in a justice court, with Fred Longwell, prosecuting attorney of Newton county representing the state and was held to the action of the Newton county circuit court. His bond was fixed at SSOO, and, in default of bail, he was placed in the calaboose. He will be kept here until Saturday, when, if he does not give bond, he will be taken to Kentland and will be placed in jail until court convenes next month. Glaze lived witlLhisjfamily near Morocco until last March, when he left home after informing his wife that he was going to Terre Halite to work in a coal mine. He went away without providing for the support of his wife and children and they became charges of the county. Sickness and death invaded the Glaze home, Abbie, 15 years old, the eldest daughter, was prostrated by brain fever, in her delirium she called repeatedly for her father. “If I could only see him,” she mourned, “I could induce him to refuel home and take care of us.” Abbie died on Saturday and the body was taken to Marshall, Parke county, where the interment was made on Tuesday. Messrs. Linton and Sauer accompanied the remains and, when they reached Marshall, learned that Erastus Glaze was living at Judson. They were deputized and arrested him. They say that Glaze was living at Judson with a woman named Melinda Hurst, and that she had deserted her husband and four children to live with Glaze, who represented that he was a single man. The death of Glaze’s daughter aroused much sympathy and indignation here and there is a feeling that he should be punished to the extent of the law, which means imprisonment if pressed.