Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1915 — TEACHER ASSAULTED BY ANGRY PATRON [ARTICLE]

TEACHER ASSAULTED BY ANGRY PATRON

Affidavit in Circuit Court Chargee Henry McColly With Choking Miss Lulu Nelson.

Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Sands, based upon Information secured by telephone, has filed an affidavit against Henry McColly, of Kankakee township, charging him with assault and battery on Miss Lulu Nelson, teacher of the Dahncke school in Kankakee township. Hhe report that reaches this office is to the effect that McColly has been a very unruly school patron and has caused trouble for some time with the trustee and the school teacher. Last fall Trustee John Shirer purchased books for the McColly children, accodring to report, because their father w»s unable to supply the needed 'books. More Or less trouble has occurred since then and finally McColly took his children out of school. On Tuesday McColly is said to have gone to the school house and made a demand for the books, but Miss Nelson, the teacher, refused to surrender them, saying that they were the property of the township. It is reported that McColly then choked her and held her while one of the McColly children got the books. ■

Attorney Sands considered the matter a very aggravated one and made a circuit ease of the charge. A warrant for the arrest of McColly was placed in the hands of Sheriff B. D. McColly and will be served either today or tomorro The sheriff is not related to the defendant, being from a different family.