Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1915 — BRELSFORD TO GET $300 REWARD [ARTICLE]

BRELSFORD TO GET $300 REWARD

Clinton Opnty Jury Favors .Lafayette Man jn Over Money Offered .for Lawedn Capture.

Frankfort, Jnd., .Dee. I.—The S3OO reward offered by the board of commissioners of Carroll county for the apprehension of Charles F. Lawson, following the fugitive’s flight after fatally shooting Nightwiatehman August .Scallon at Delphi, goes to John D. Brelsford, of Lafayette. The jury that heard the trial of the case seeking to determine who is entitled to the reward, reported fts verdict at 9:15 a,. m. today. The decision of the jury means that the S3OO reward goes to Joseph Truitt, uncle off the prisoner, Chas. Lawson. Truitt furnished the information that, led to Lawson’s arrest. He betrayed his nephew so that he might take the S3OO reward and enter a sanitarium to be treated for rheumatism. Brelsford agreed to accompany Sheriff Popejoy and Deputy Sheriff Moore, of Delphi, to Milford, .HL, where Lawson was in hiding, and agreed to turn the reward money over to Truitt. Through an agreement reached with Moore, whereby Moore was to take the S2OO reward offered by the city of Delphi, and Brelsford w r as to take the S3OO offer--ed by the county, Brelsford advanced money to Truitt, upon which the latter went to the Sanitarium. Moore based his claim for the S3OO reWatd upon the purely technical grounds that he had accomplished “the arredt and return” of Lawson. The case took four days to try, and five legal firms were engaged in the case.

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