Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1915 — PROSECUTING ATTORNEY CHARGED WITH PATERNITY [ARTICLE]

PROSECUTING ATTORNEY CHARGED WITH PATERNITY

Girl-Mother Gets Montieello Lawyer to Meet Her at Logansport and Hands Him the Baby. Howard T. Brockway, prosecuting attorney of the Carroll-White judicial court, is detained in Logansport on a paternity charge preferred by Miss Mae Shigley, of Lafayette. Brockway was bora and reared in Brookston and makes his permanent home at Montieello. He gained considerable fame as the prosecuting attorney in the recent Mullendore murder trial held at Delphi. Excitement reigns in Delphi and the neighboring towns over the development of the case and it promises to be one of the most sensational of its nature ever held in Carroll county. The baby was bom in the Lutheran hospital in Ft. Wayne on Marsh 12th. Miss Shigley arrived in Logansport Wednesday .and immediately called Brockway at his home in Montieello, asking him to meet her in Logansport. He did this and the couple left the depot and went up to the city. Miss Shigley made an excuse to go into a drug store and left the baby in the arms of Brockway and when she reappeared refused to take the baby back into her arms. Brockway decided to find a place for the baby at the Salvation Army headquarters but found no one in but the janitor, who refused to take it. Upon leaving there Brockway found that Miss Shigley had disappeared. He proceeded to police headquarters and told the chief that an unknown woman had forced the baby into his arms and disappeared, but upon being questioned admitted that he knew the Woman but wanted to keep her name secret and help her out of her dilemma. Brockway was # told to get the woman to headquarters immediately, and he picked up the baby and x left. When he did not return an investigation was started and about this time Miss Shigley put in an appearance. It was learned that Brockway had boarded a Delphi interurban with a bundle under his arm. It was an easy matter to traee him to the home of Circuit Judge Wason. Brockway was placed under arrest, but volunteered to go back to Logansport without a warrant. He stoutly denies being the parent of the child and has engaged M. W. Fensler to defend him. He further affirms that he has not seen Miss Shigley since last December. Brockway is known to have kept company with Miss Shigley when in Lafayette and the feeling is very much against him. He is well known in Cass, Carroll and Tippecanoe counties and police headquarters has been thronged with people since the development of the easel Judge Wason said that he would .appoint a special prosecuting attorney in the case and bring such action as the case demanded.