Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1915 — OFFICERS SPENT NIGHT IN WATCH [ARTICLE]

OFFICERS SPENT NIGHT IN WATCH

Parr Crazy Man Eludes Officers and Then Shows Up After They Have Left For Town. I Deputy Sheriffs L. A. Harmon and Rice Porter and Harry McColly, son of Sheriff McColly, spent all of Friday night in the neighborhood of Parr, watching for John McCurtain, who was recently declared insane and who slipped away from the insane asylum at Logansport last Tuesday. In the game of hide and seek McCurtain proved best, for he so completely eluded the officers that they did not get a sight of him. After the officers had left for home at about 5 o’clock in the morning McCurtain showed up and citizens of Parr again telephoned for the officers. Although they had .been without sleep all night they again returned to Parr in two automobiles and put in the morning searching for the insane man' but without results. The officers gave up the hunt at noon and returned to Rensselaer for their dinners. Citizens of Parr who see McCurtain should detain him and send for the officers, who sre not expected to put in their time hunting him. If apprehended it is quite probable that he will be sent to the penal farm, which seems a nearer correct place for him than the asylum for the insane.