Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1914 — ROY GRAYSON WENT ON WAR PATH FRIDAY [ARTICLE]

ROY GRAYSON WENT ON WAR PATH FRIDAY

Soon Came to Grief, Spent Night in Jail and Was Given Passport By Marshal Shesler.

Roy Grayson, jvho came here from North Dakota, where he had been for four or five years, became intoxicated and started a rough house in the Little Indian poolroom. Proprietor Kiplinger tried to quiet him down but Gray-, son refused to be pacified and < started to fight. He was ejected* from the poolroom and Marshal Shesler lodged him in jail, where he remained over Friday night. Indications pointed to a desire on Roy’s part to secure free board and the officers did not care to gratify him, so deported him, giving him railroad fare to Shelby. Grayson is a large and powerful man. Two or three years pgo while under the influence of liquor he was struck by a train in North Dakota and had both legs broken,; but the experience does not seem to have quenched his appetite for rum and money he earned last week working at ice packing seems to have been invested in booze, which some person in Rensselaer must be dispensing. Roy has promised to stay away, it is said, and failure to do so will probably result in his arrest and prosecution.