Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1918 — SHOT IN THE ACT OF ATTEMPTING TO POISON WATER [ARTICLE]

SHOT IN THE ACT OF ATTEMPTING TO POISON WATER

Lorah Hess, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hess, of Gillam township, was in Rensselaer today. He reports that he had been working in the quartermaster’s department at Camp Grant and that Wednesday a man was shot while in the act of pouring poison into a large water tank in that camp. He reports that there are now in Camp Grant one hundred German prisoners, who were captured and taken off of a Hun Üboat. These men are confined in a wire enclosure. The wire is heavily charged with electricity and a person touching them would be knockecfaown.