Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1915 — ANOTHER CHAPTER TO THE ROSELAWN CASE [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER CHAPTER TO THE ROSELAWN CASE

Practical Jokers Impersonated Mrs. Peterson and Paramour and Pooled the Officers.

Still another chapter was added Saturday night to the case that has caused such a furor at Roselawn since the arrest of Mrs. Ida Peterson and “Battle Ax” Gibbon. Some of the practical jokers of Roselawn thought it would be a huge lot of amusement to make the justice of the peace and the constable believe that Mrs. Peterson and Gibbons'had returned to Roselawn. Accordingly the plan was laid. Jim Haskell and “Babe” Dennis went to. the nouse Mrs. Peterson had occupied and one of them dressed up as a womah. They darkened the blinds in the lower part of the house and lighted a lamp upstairs. Some one informed the officers that they were home and Squire Whitten and Constable Hatton began their plans of capture. They deputized several constables and surrounded the house. Then demands for surrender were made but there was no response. Finally the officers broke open the door and entered the house, only to be confronted by Haskell and Dennis, <who had tipped a number of others off to be on hand to enjoy the fun. There was a big lot of laughing at the expense of the officers. It is reported that there is really a moral fight on at Roselawn and that the good men and women of the town have been very much hampered in their efforts to break up the law violations At any rate, the officers have certainly had their troubled and it is to be hoped that the immoral practices that are alleged may be broken up by the disappearance of Mrs. Peterson and Gibbons.