Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1915 — Goes to the City to See The Sights and Gets Nipped. [ARTICLE]

Goes to the City to See The Sights and Gets Nipped.

Constable Albert J. Knip, of DeMotte, Jasper county, Indiana, recently went to Chicago to see the sights. After dolling himself out in a new front Knip ambled out on the streets with a view of seeing the town. Knip evidently did not know the reputation of Halstead street or he would never have gone up that way, and a fellow fresh from the sticks certainly did not have any business there without a chaperon. But Knip did not know this. Two rough looking men accosted him and relieved him of his-suit, what money he had left and took his shirring star. Knip sternly warned the mthat he was the constable of DeMotte, by gosh, but they only slipped him a punch in the eye for good measure. Knip told his story to a policeman. “Where is your star?” demanded the bluecoat. On failure to produce it Knip was arrested and got a ride in the joy cart to the station. He finally told his story to Judge Laßuy. “I’m from Jasper county,” interrupted Assistant City Prosecutor Souhrada. “Let him go, Judge.” The constable and Souhrada left the courtroom arm in arm.