Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1915 — Stole to Pay Taxes. [ARTICLE]

Stole to Pay Taxes.

Because a term in the state prison stared him in the face, Edward Holder, 42 years old, hanged himself in the county jail with a bedspread at Kokomo. Holder had confessed to stealing chickens and said he stole them to pay the taxes on his mother’s property at Greentorwn so she would not have to lose it