Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1916 — Human Arsenal Runs Amuck, Wounding Three. [ARTICLE]

Human Arsenal Runs Amuck, Wounding Three.

Mike Inik, of Whiting, Ind., a foreigner, ran amuck in the Hammond ' court Monday. Inick had labored under hallucinations that justice had been denied him and forthwith proceeded to shoot up the courtroom. He had on his pefson at the time four new revolvers, a razor-edged cavalry saber, a hatchet, a hammer, a long butcher knife, a heavy iron chain, a strong iron hook, a “jimmy,” a blackjack covered with cloth and studded with pins, 165 revolver bullets, a half loaf of dry bread and an armful of documents referring to his “case.” Under his street clothes Inik wore a crudely fashioned medeiaval armour suit made of sheet iron and stove pipe to cover his short, stocky frame from his neck to the soles of his seer. Altogether he carried about seventyfive pounds of junk about his perosn for offensive and defensive warfare. Wrapped in a separate bundle he had a homemade sheetiron hepd mask. Ten years ago, an employe of the Standard Oil Co., he sustained a fall from a scaffold. C. L. Greenwald, who sits on the bench, Lew Debow, court bailiff, and George Robbins, a juror, were the men, shot by the crank.