Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1914 — Boy Charged With Murder Ate Soap to Fool Sheriff. [ARTICLE]

Boy Charged With Murder Ate Soap to Fool Sheriff.

Eddie Mack, 13 years of age, who has been in a Lafayette jail for some time, charged with killing his companion, Clancy McCormick, aged 15, has been feigning epilepsy, according to a dispatch from Lafayette.. He was sentenced to the reform school at Plainfield and was refused admission there because it was believed he had epilepsy. He was refused at the epileptic village because it was overcrowded and has remained in jail. Saturday the sheriff discovered that be put soap in his mouth and worked it into a suds and then fell into a fit to feign epilepsy. He confessed when accused and said he did It to keep from going to Plainfield. He will now have to go to the boys’ reformatory. A 100-egg Simplicity incubator and brooder combined for $ll.OO, at C. W. Eger’s Hardware Store.