Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1917 — What He Saw. [ARTICLE]

What He Saw.

An excited man at Evansville called the sheriff’s office and asked in an anxious tone of voice whether William Habbe, the sheriff, knew that “three or four boys were playing on the roof of the courthouse.” The sheriff didn’t but he promised to make an investigation at once. When Sheriff Habbe had climbed the long flight of stairs to the cupola and looked out he saw— Four tinners engaged in laying a new cornice around the eaves of the building.—lndianapolis News.