Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1916 — Petition Circulated Asking For Parole of Speaks and Lewis. [ARTICLE]

Petition Circulated Asking For Parole of Speaks and Lewis.

A petition is being circulated by Mayor C. G. Spitler asking Governor Ralston for the parole of Ernest Speaks and Orsen Lewis, who confessed to robbing cars cn the Monon tracks, and./who were sent to the reformatory on April 11th. It is not so much for the men themselves that the petition is circulated but quite a little sympathy is felt for their wives, and it is fqlt that a greater hardship is being worked on them than the men. Mrs. Lewis, who has been work 2 ing in a restaurant in Hammond, recently suffered from an attack of malarial fever, and is now dependent on Rensselaer friends. Mrs. Speaks has been working in a restaurant at Delphi but is now employed in a like capacity in Lafayette. It is the intention if a parole or pardon be granted to send both men and their families to the Homestake mine at Lead, S. Dak., where it is hoped that more useful citizens can be made of their husbands.