Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1915 — JEMISON SENT TO STATE PENAL FARM [ARTICLE]

JEMISON SENT TO STATE PENAL FARM

Man Who Was Shot By Constable Says He Will Return to Russia After His Release.

Judge Hanley sentenced Louis Jemison, the man who beat his wife and was shot when he broke away from Officer Childers, to the state penal farm for two months and to pay a fine of $25. Jemison was taken this Friday morning to the farm, which is near Greencastle, . Deputy Sheriff Rice Porter taking him there. Jemison was able to get a shoe on his foot but was not able to lace it up and he walked with a decided limp. He is still suffering some pain as a result of the bullet hole » his,foot, but all danger seems practically past and he is feeling quite good, although he broke down and cried when sentence was passed. Jemison claims to have been a second lieutenant in the Russian army and to have been attached to the heavy artillery and that as soon as he is discharged from the penal farm he will satrt back to Russia to enter the army. He says that he will be given a commission and that he has had an exchange of letters with" the Russian counsel in Chicago and has been told that the great need in is for officers. He says that lfe has served an enlistment in the United States army since he came to America and that he is better equipped to be of service to Russia than he was before he left that country. In the battle of Mukden in the Russian-Japanese war he received a number of painful wounds from a shrapnel explosion. He said they healed up within eight days and he can not understand why his foot has not entirely healed. He says that he will give it all the exercise possible in order to get into condition for active servce when he returns to Russia and that when the spring campaign opens he will be found fighting the Germans, whom he declares will' never capture Petrograd. The Rdssian army is divided into three great armies, the European, the

Caucasian and the Asiatic. He beongs to the Caucasian, which in time of peace had some 800,000 soldiers, practically half of the entire Russian army. Now it is vastly largar. Jemison was cheerful and seemed to enter upon his sentence in good spirits. He dames some of his neighbors, whom ; ie says are Germans, for his troubles and he says that his wife is also of German parentage and that the issues of the European war are back of all their troubles, which, however, according to all accounts, had begun some time before the war broke out. Those who know him best do not believe his stories and say that they consider everything he has said as being false. Jemison, however, has some knowledge of military tactics and talks quite intelligently on all topics, being a reader of newspapers and magazines.