Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1915 — JEMISON’S FAMILY TAKEN TO MONON [ARTICLE]

JEMISON’S FAMILY TAKEN TO MONON

Russian At Long Distance Defied Authorities and Showed Revolver and Said He Would Use It. Loren C. Sage, who lives southeast of town, saw Louis Jemison and talked to him for more than an hour last Sunday. Jemison told him that he had escaped from the penal farm to which he had been'taken a week or two before by knocking down one of the guards and taking has revolver. He Showed Mr. Sage a big pistol, which he had loaded full and also showed him a pocketful of cartridges and said that there were no fifteen men in Rensselaer who could take him. He said that he had been at his home in the Sharon neighborhood for several days and that he had spent a day or two in the orchard near the Sage home watching them fill the silos and he mentioned the names of the men Who were at the Sage home. Jemison said that he was going to Russia but had hoped before he left to get a chance to even up with the officers here who caused his arrest.

Sunday Mrs. Jemison and the it three children were taken to Monon in an automobile and it was after they had gone that Jemison talked to Mr. Sage. He said he was coming to Rensselaer before he left. He is supposed to have come here that evening and to have gone to Monon on the night train. A message Vas sent from the depot to some one at Marion telling them to notify the authorities at the penal farm that Louis Jemison, who had escaped, was on his way to Canada and would be at Michigan City Monday. The message was signed “Thom,” it is understood and presumably it was sent by Jemison himself as a ruse to throw the officers off the track. It is believed he has gone some place to again lave with lis family, whom he had said he would desert. Jemison is a bad egg, apparently, but if he remains away from Jasper county no one here will ye any the worse off if he never goes back to the penal farm or to the reformatory for breaking out. If he takes his family away and keeps them from becoming a public charge it will be a 'blessing. Some think that his bark is a great deal worse than lis bite and the way he carried on at the jail after his arrest indicates that he does not have nearly as much nerve as he claimed to have.