Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1915 — Love Pirate, Real Dope Fiend, Reared In Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

Love Pirate, Real Dope Fiend, Reared In Jasper County.

Charles L. Waroe, mental millionaire and bad check artist, who says that he was formerly a resident of McCoysburg, having spent most of his life there, was arrested in Valparaiso Tuesday morning and taken to Fort Wayne to answer charges of having issued fraudulent checks. His bride, formerly Miss Beulah Youse, of Lafayette, accompanied him. The prisoner confessed to the officers on Tuesday evening that he had for the past two yeans been eating and snuffjng opium at the average of a pound a week, or sl6 worth. “That’s the big thing that little Beulah has done for me,” he explained. “She made me promise that I would not take any more of it, and I have kept my promise to her. I’ll never touch any more of that stuff as long as I live.” But during all the examination of the fellow, his disjointed narrative of his life history and his movements during the past few months, led the officers to believe that he was still filled with the drug or that he wa sdemented.