Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1915 — George Marvin to Prosecute Attorney on Paternity Charge. [ARTICLE]

George Marvin to Prosecute Attorney on Paternity Charge.

The sensation caused in Monticello, Lafayette, Logansport and more or less all over the state by the charge preferred by Miss Mae Shigley, of West Lafayette, against Howard Brockway, prosecuting attorney of White and Carroll counties, was the chief topic 'of conversation where he was well known all day Thursday. The girl’s act in turning the baby over to him at Logansport and his frantic efforts to dispose of jt caused a predicament that excited much attention. Brockway employed Kit Sills, of Monticello, and one or two other lawyers to defend him against the charge of paternity, protesting that he was innocent. Prominent ladies .at Logansport, however, accepted the girl’s charge as true and a prominent woman took the tired mother and her 13-day-old babe to her home, where it has been showered with presents. < It developed during the day that Brockway had paid $lO toward the girl’s hospital bill at Ft. Wayne and persons who were taking the girl's part asked why, if he was innocent, he would have gone to Logansport to meet her and whw he would have taken the baby with him to Delphi. Judge Wason, of Delphi, appointed George Marvin, a well known attorney of Monticello, to prosecute Brockway on a charge of paternity. Brockway’s attorneys sent him to the home of his mother in Lafayette .and told him to remain there until they sent for him. Some of the young man’s friends contend that he is absolutely innocent and that the girl simply picked on him because of her infatuation for him. If this is the case, he certainly is receiving a lot of unfavorable notoriety. He is the son of Dri C. T. Brockway, who died in Brooks ton some two years ago and his mother now* lives in Lafayette. He has a toother, Dr. Jesse Brockway, in Lafayette. They are greatly humiliated by the disgrace.