Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1914 — MONON CONSTABLE SURE SOME SLEUTH [ARTICLE]

MONON CONSTABLE SURE SOME SLEUTH

“Ego” Miller Arrested Glif Sumner and Vera Sanders as Suspects in Robbery Case.

Constable “Ego” Miller, of Monon. whose conduct as a sleuth resembles the moving picture and comic supplement type, arrested Clifford Sumner and Verb Sanders, employes of the Central Garage, of this city, Saturday night, handled them roughly, cursed them and detained them over night, and probably put himself liable for' prosecution for his abusive and illegal methods. Sumner and Sanders had started to Monticeilo on an Indian motorcycle. They broke down east of Monon and returned to that town to repair their machine. “Bright Eyes” Miller and his tin star hove in sight and he at once accused them of being the men who had robbed A. R. Clark’s and O. A. Jacks’ stores at Lee a few nights before. They denied their connection with the crime, told who they were, who they worked for and with any reasonable or fair-minded officer would have been permitted to call up Rensselaer to verify their story. The pseudo slteuth of (Monon, however, bundled them off to a restaurant and placed a,guard over them and they were kept all night. While sitting in chairs they fell asleep and the constable shook them and struck Sumner in the left eye and handled them like they were a couple of bad men who were trying to make their escape. They wre kept until 9 o’clock Sunday morning, the night watch having guarded them over night. They waited until 9 sos the city marshal to show up and prefer -charges against them but he did not come and the young men then got their motorcycle and cable home. They have arranged to consult a lawyer and see what can be done to make tnis officious sleuth pay fox the injuries inflicted ahd the trouble he caused them. This is the same Miller with the cow brand countenance and the reputation for beating his wife who showed so much authority at a ball game at Monon last year. It is a pity that he is permitted to be loose, much less to have any authority, for he has no conception of how to use it and self-respecting Monon people shofild see that he is de prived of his high office before some one makes his anatomy resemble a sieve.