Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1915 — Joe Trapp Gets Off With &500 Fine For Knife Attack. [ARTICLE]

Joe Trapp Gets Off With &500 Fine For Knife Attack.

Joe Trapp, of Winamac, who some time ago assaulted and severely beat up Chauncy Felker, was fined SSOO in the Pulaski court. Trapp had skipped out after his assault on Felker and finally was arrested at Kentland. Trapp had a step-daughter named June Moody. Felker took her home from a moving picture show one evening last November and Trapp instituted a performance that the “movies” would have paid well for if they could have it. Trapp did not know Felker before the night of the assault. Trapp testified at his trial that he was intoxicated at the time of the assault, having drank from 6 to 12 bottles of beer during the day and had drank a pint of whiskey in the evening and then helped put away another pint. Trapp is a brother of Mrs. Charles Zellers and went to their home after the assault and slept on the floor that night. The next day he spent at the home of Noah Speece, who had helped him drink a pint of whiskey the evening before. He then went to Chicago. Felker was terribly slashed with a knife by Trapp, and scars on his cheek and neck will be permanent and are very noticeable. got off very easy.