Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1916 — Negro Ran Amuck at Kouts Last Saturday Night. [ARTICLE]

Negro Ran Amuck at Kouts Last Saturday Night.

The head of Charles Jackson, a burly negro, now in jail at Valparaiso, may be solid bone. Three bullets fired by a night watchman against this obstruction, glanced off harmlessly. However, the bullets turned! Jackson’s charge into a retreat, and he entrenched himself behind the barred door of a freight car. The fracas occurred at Kouts Saturday night. Jackson is a bad nigger—very bad, his colored associates declare —and to satisfy his craving for a scrap he attacked another negro with a razor and before he got through his victim was in a very bad shape. When the victim was asked how rflany times he was cut he answered, “Only once, he couldn’t catch me any more.” Jackson is wanted at Hammond fo* - the theft of a suit of clothes. He had inherited S6OO from his mother but he feared to return to Lake county on account of the crime previously committed.