Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1916 — Sensational Valparaiso Editor Victim -of Attack. [ARTICLE]

Sensational Valparaiso Editor Victim -of Attack.

At recent revival meetings in Valparaiso an evangelist made sensational charges against the morality of the city and a man named L. Garland Snow, who was converted, decided to start a newspaper to expose conditions there. He was in getting started by the evangelist and Rev. T. J. Bassett. The paper was called The Independent and was printed at Hobart. The second issue became very personal and published scandalous articles, one charging a girl student at the university named Arline with immoral conduct. Officers in the court house were assailed and Valparaiso was intensely excited When the paper appeared. Two or three attempts were made to kidnap Snow. .The prosecuting attorney, Ralph Parks, and another lawyer named Sam Berry, tried to get him into an automobile and threatened to throw him in the lake, but the police interfered. L. M. Pierce, a county official, had an altercation with Snow and would have fought him save for the interference of others. University students, incensed by the publications about Arline and declaring her a young woman above reproach, assailed Snow. He was next attacked in an office building, where he had rooms from which the owner of the building is said to have ordered him to move. He was either thrown or jumped from the window and sustained a fractured hip. The paper he published was so scandalous as to cause a denial from Rev. Bassett that he was in any wmy j-esponsible for the articles published and did not even know they were to appear until the paper was being circulated.' The articles were such as to make the prosecution of the sensational editor probable.