Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1914 — Mexican Half Breed Spent Night in Rensselaer Jail. [ARTICLE]

Mexican Half Breed Spent Night in Rensselaer Jail.

A crank was in Rensselaer Monday and spent that night in jail. He was a young man, claiming to he only 23. He was erect in stature and of fair appearance. His heavy, long black hair brought out his Indian breeding and to all appearances he was a Mexican half breed, although he claimed to be a native of Florida. He termed himself a socialist, but was really more of an anarchist, and in the evening undertook to speak on the public square. So inflammatory was bis talk that Nightwatch Critser took him to the jail, for the night. He said that he was hunting for work, Wanted a job on a farm, but would not work over 8 hours a day and wanted wages of about $4 for each day’s work. He hissed the names of Carnegie and Rockefeller and made a great howl about corporations. His bands indicated that he never worked any himself and apparently he was a tramp agitator who succeeded in begging from honest working men enough to subsist upon.