Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1914 — Warning Given to Look Ont for Followers of Show. [ARTICLE]

Warning Given to Look Ont for Followers of Show.

Marshal Shesler received a telefram this morning from the marshal at Roachdale giving a warning about watching out for erooks that may be following the Haag circus. Several occurrences there proved that there were a number of show followers who would commit holdups, rob 'houses, snatch purses and commit any sort of act to get a little money. In view of this warning every person should be on the lookout and should be sure to keep their doors locked' even when at home and if the home is left unoccupied to leave no valuables laying about. Women should hold firmly to their purses and should not be on the street unaccompanied.

An act which occurred at Sullivan should attach no stigma to the circus, however. As the circus was being loaded there the manager of transportation, F. A. Curtis, asked Claud Purcell, who was talking to some of: the workmen, to move on. He pulled out a revolver and shot Curtis, whose condition Is now critical. Purcell is in jail at Sullivan. Showmen here today, state that he was drunk.