Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1915 — Blacksmith in Jail For Failure to Pay Dog Tax. [ARTICLE]

Blacksmith in Jail For Failure to Pay Dog Tax.

Lawrence Parson is in the Rensselaer jail because he could not furnish a bond in the sum of S3OO when bound over to the circuit court for failure to pay his dog tax. It might be said that Parson went to jail for his dog. He was a blacksmith at Remington and says he is married and has his family at Kokomo. He says that he has worked constantly and had only lost two days in three years. He had a dog and is said to have neglected to list the animal for tax. He left Remington and went to Otterbein, where he was arrested and returned to Remington and given a preliminary hearing before Squire Albert Dickinson, who bound him over to the circuit court. Just what the full circumstances are we have been unr able to learn but unless there is a very glaring case of wrong-doing it would seem that for Parson and his family ahd the dog, the dignity of Indiana and the taxpayers of Jasper county it would be a great deal better if he was released. Query! Why is a dog?