Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1916 — HOMER HEATH IS IN MORE TROUBLE [ARTICLE]

HOMER HEATH IS IN MORE TROUBLE

Young Man Who Robbed Homer Babb Nepr Remington Violates Parole —Steals More Money. • Homer Heath, the young man who knocked Homer Babb down and robbed him at his hoipe north of Monticello after he Rad been sheltered and fed by Babb and who was arrested after eluding the officers for severail months, is again in trouble. The propriety of paroling a man of Heath’s character is a very doubtful one. The Monticello Herald gives the foHownig account of his latest trouble.

“Charged with having violated Ms parole, Homer Heath, 23 years old, was arrested at the home of his mother, Mrs. Minnie Heath, in East Monticello, by Marshal Ireland and Deputy Sheriff Countryman at noon Wednesday. The arrest followed information which came to Marshal Ireland from police headquarters at Franklin, Ind., who communicated with .the marshal here by telephone and said that Heath was wanted on a charge of safe blowing. Heath served two years and nine months in the reformatory at Jeffersonville, having*been sent there from Jasper county in March, 1913, on a eharge’of “burglary. His sentence was from two to fourteen years. He was released from that institution Dec. 6, 1915. Following his arrest he .was placed in the White county jail awaiting the arrival of officers/ “At the jail he was interviewed by a Herald reporter and at first reIfused to talk but walked rapidly back and forth in the corridor in front of his cell. After a little time, however, he said that the officers at Franklin had nothing on him; that following his release from Jeffersonville he worked for a mam named William J. Ricketts, on a farm about six miles from Franklin for sl3 a month, and that while the family were all gone he took some money. He said he got about S2OO, but that nobody saw him take it. As this story does not agree with the one given to Marshal Ireland over the telephone it is probably told in order to satisfy the inquiry of the reporter.”