Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1916 — Jail is Getting Good Share of Business Now. [ARTICLE]

Jail is Getting Good Share of Business Now.

Tramps, often insufficiently clad and half frozen, have been receiving lodging at the jail during the recenT cold nights. Sunday Sheriff McColly received calls from Barkley township that a man was wandering about in the woods in that section. A. O. Moore went so the woods and got the man and took him, Good Samaritan like, to his home, warmed him up and gave him food. The sheriff sent for the man and he has since been at the jail. He is fairly well dressed but> seems mentally distressed. He re-' members but little about himself. Sunday evening a colored man was given lodging at the jail. He had frozen his ears and was in a bad condition. He said he had seen the queer man in Indianapolis and that both had bummed out of there on a passenger train. He did not know where the other man was put off the train. He was put off the train here Saturday night and spent that night in the light plant. He was kept here until this Tuesday morning. It is thought probable that the white man will have to be sent to the asylum. Other tramps' have been kept at re jail also and Matron McColly has □een very busy, especially since-her maid was taken ill with the grip. Joe Warbritton, the Fair Oaks youth, Mrs. Stapel, the DeMbtte insane woman, and the Newton county burglar were all in the jail Monday night.