Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1918 — STATEMENT IS MADE BY DAN HARTNETT [ARTICLE]

STATEMENT IS MADE BY DAN HARTNETT

Dan Hartnett, who rode on the train on which Eari Hughes, the Monon brakeman whose mangled body was found on -the Monon near Pleasant Ridge Friday morning, was employed the night Hughes lost his life, has made the following statement to the Lafayette Journal: “I have never made the statement that Conductr Fred Ball Brakeman Hughes off the train. He must have rtarte dover the top and fell down* between the cars oj he might have been jerked off the rear end of the caboose.”

Charlie Otterhwg, who reme homie from Camp Taylor on a 30-day furlough, has discarded h» umfonn and donned citizen’s clothes, having been discharged from the service on account of defective teeth.