Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1913 — J. L. WILLIS NOW IN RENSSELAER JAIL [ARTICLE]

J. L. WILLIS NOW IN RENSSELAER JAIL

Brought Here Monday Afternoon at 4:30 to Enter Upon 90-Day Sentence—Out Feb. Ist. The deputy sheriff of Newton county brought James L. Willis here from Kentland Monday afternoon at about 4:30 o’clock and he entered upon his 90 days’ sentence This will let him # out on Feb. Ist. As Willis passed up the steps leading to the jail door he waved his hand to his wife and two children, who live diagonally across the street from the jail. It is understood that the fine of 3500 and the costs attached thereto will be paid soon. The court costs are said to be about $125, and added to this is his own attorney costs, estimated at SI,OOO, so that including the fine, his escapade has probably cost him in excess* of $1,500 in addition to his jail sentence. It is not improbable that a civil action will be started against him by the Thompson girl, who would doubtless be able to procure a judgment agafnst him for the injury to her name.