Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1914 — GRAYSON IN THE LIMELIGHT AGAIN [ARTICLE]

GRAYSON IN THE LIMELIGHT AGAIN

Will and Roy Grayson Engage in Fight and Land In Jail. Z - Will and Roy Grayson engaged in a fight Christmas evening and lahded in jail and as a result they were booked for a hearing before 6 justice of the peace this afternoon. ! Wiill and Roy Grayson have rooms in the old hotel building on ! Vine street near the site of the former Monon depot, along with five or six other tenants who occupy • the building. I Roy Grayson recently came here i from Shelby, where he was so badly , cut uip in a . fight a few weeks ago that it was thought at the time he ; could not live. He has almost recovered from his injuries but is still very weak and in the encounter with his brother, Will, be got the worst of it. It seems as though the Grayson’s were celebrating the evening and i were under the influence of liquor. Jpst what caused the trouble will probably be disclosed at the hearing. When the fight (broke out Marshal Shesler and Nightwatch Critser were notified and placed the boys under arrest and placed them in jail. Fred Irwin was one of their companions of the evening, but went out the back (way when the fight started. He was later picked up in the snow in a helpless condition back of the building and given lodging at the jail along with the Grayson’s. ' /