Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1916 — Preacher Who Stole Auto Is Taken to Reformatory. [ARTICLE]

Preacher Who Stole Auto Is Taken to Reformatory.

Rev. Banjamin F. Clifton, former Methodist pastor at Mt. Ayr, Newton county, and Kingman and Salem in Fountain county, received an indeterminate sentence of one to fourteen year® in the Indiana reformatory Monday afternoon at Crawfordsville. Clifton was found guilty Dec. 23 of ■the theft of Thomas Harwood’s automobiel. In the sensational two weeks’ trial in the Montgobery circuit court the preacher based his defense on insaniy. Motion for a new trial was waived. He wag taken to Jeffersonville Monday afternoon by Sheriff Prewitt.

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