Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1914 — Peculiar Case. [ARTICLE]

Peculiar Case.

Kankakee Valley Review. George Hossline, who resides 4 miles southeast of Wheatfield, came here Sunday and reported a peculiar case to Squire Van Doozer. Mr. Hossline employed a man last week who gave his name as John Snyder and on Friday evening Mr. Hossline and wife heard Snyder leave his room and approach the door of the room occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Hossline, who listened for a short time and heard Snyder go back to his room and shortly afterwards Mr. Snyder felt as if he was under the Influence of some kind of drug and when he undertook to mention the fact to Mrs. Hossline he discovered that she was nearly’ unconscious. Mr. Hossline sprang immediately out of bed and opened the doors for air and it was sometime, he said, before himself and wife recovered from the effects of the drug or poison that had been injected probably through the keyhole into the room. Mr. Hossline said that the man, Snyder, was sitting on the side of the bed apparently waiting for developments. Ifi the morning Snyder took leg bail for parts unknown and after Mr. and Mrs. Hossline recovered from fright they came and reported the matter to the squire, who issued a warrant and placed it in the hands of Marshal Fillmer, who went in search of Snyder, who was known to have been in DeMotte Saturday, but as yet no other trace of him can be had. Snyder is a dark complected middle sized man and is reported to be a Russian.