Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1914 — SAVES HIS FATHER FROM JAIL [ARTICLE]

SAVES HIS FATHER FROM JAIL

Ben Hires Parent Under Prevision es Parole Law of the State of Wisconsin. - La Crosse, Wis. —Albert Wickert of La Crosse hired his father, aged sev-enty-nine, from Sheriff John A. Weber so the aged man would not have to go to jail for the first time in his life. Andrew Wickert was charged with shooting s shotgun carelessly and ia such a manner that shot enteral the skin of Louis Beesecker. Judge Baldwin found him guilty and sentenced him to ten days. The son furnished a cash bond and hired his father, under the parole law, to work on his farm. The county will collect the old man’s wages from his son and turn a portion of the amount over to the father’s family.