Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1915 — Jemison Feeling Better Since Arriving at Jail. [ARTICLE]

Jemison Feeling Better Since Arriving at Jail.

Louis Jemison, the man accused of beating his wife and who was shot >y Officer Childers when he escaped after his arrest, was brought to the jail Wednesday. Thursday he passed a bad day, having refused to eat and being in considerable pain in his injured foot. Drs. Hemphill and Kresler dressed the foot Thursday afternoon and it was found that a flaxseed poultice which Dr. Hemphill had put on the day before had greatly helped the -injured member. There iSj quite a big role just above the heel, where the bullet entered the foot. It ranged upward and evidently must have strusk some other object before it hit Jamison’s foot. The ball was taken out from the top of the foot, having passed between the bones without injuring them. A piece of leather and a piece of sock had been carried into the wound by the bullet and these had been removed by Jemison before the doctor saw him the first time. At first Jemison refused to let the doctors attend him Thursday evening but after a time he allowed them to dress his foot. He would not talk but mumbled and gave the impression of an insane man. He asked that his wife might come to the jail to see him. After the injured foot was dressed Jemison ate a good supper and talked with 1 other prisoners and seemed to 'be about all right again. He was given a preliminary hearing in the jail on the charge of assault and battery on his wife. Justice Dean bound him aver to the circuit iourt, placing his bond at SSOO and committing him to jail pending the securing of the bond. T. D. Conaghan, a farm owner in Milroy township, testified that Mrs. Jemison worked with her husband at timber clearing, that she worked one end of the saw right along with him and came to the woods barefooted and that she also kept house, took care of the three little rhildren and got the meals. He said that one day while they were at work Jemison struck her across the arm with the handle of-the crosscut saw. She cried out with pain and said, “broke, broke,” and Mr. Conaghan feared that her arm was broken. He also said that she had bruises on her other arm where he had struck her. A little while after striking* her with the saw handle, Jemison went a short distance away where the children were playing and taking a belt from about his body severely whipped his little 4-year-old boy, striking him across the back brutally. Jemison informed Dr. Hemphill that he served in the Russian army during the Russian-Japanese war and was wounded at the battle of Mukden, receiving shrapnel wounds on his legs which left ugly scars. Jemison is regarded a bad man by those who know him best and it is believed by them that he is insane. He will probably be tried next week when court convenes. The w body of Francis M. Remmek, accompanied by the widow and two children, Charles and Dr. Rose, was taken to Peru today for burial. The family will return here Sunday.