Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1916 — SARAH HENLEY AND HUFF ARE IN TROUBLE [ARTICLE]

SARAH HENLEY AND HUFF ARE IN TROUBLE

He is In the Joliet Prison for Burg- „ lary and She Fails in Effort to Collect Damages. Jasper and Newton county people will recall the arrests made at Roselawn several months ago ’or chicken stealing. Two of the parties were Mrs. Sarah Henley and Fred Huff. The Lake County Times has a *tory about them that will revive local interest and also indicate that tha was routed irom Rosolawn when they were arrested. In the superior court at Hammond Tuesday 9 case was called that looked harmless enough. It was Sarah Henley and Fred Huff against the Erie railroad. They asked S3OO for a team of horses alleged „o have been killed at Wilders a year ago last September. Attorney Fred Crum packer appeared for the Erie and he introduced evidence to show that there was a conspiracy to mulch the railroad by a premeditated accident, in other words that,Huff would buy an old team of horses and get them killed on the railroad and .then sue for damages. It was shown that within ight months Huff had “lost” at least "“our teams of horses on crossings of various railroads in the Kankakee valley. In at least two of the tearhs Mrs. Henley had a financial interest. When the evidence was all in and before the cases were argued Judge Reiter ordered a verdict for the defendant company. It developed also during the trial that Huff was serving a .rm of one to twenty years in the Joliet prison for burglary. He procured his release from jail here by giving a SIOO cash bond, which he promptly jumped. Sheriff. McGolly was called to Hammond to testify against Huff, whose picture as a prisoner in Joliet he identified. While there was no positive evidence to show that Mrs. Henley was a party to the effort to. defraud the railroads, there was some indication that she was implicated, at least she has figured with Huff in some other crooked deals and her protestations of innocence are -net given much credence.