Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1919 — MURRAY SENT TO REFORMATORY [ARTICLE]

MURRAY SENT TO REFORMATORY

I EDMOND MURRAY, FORMERLY OF THIS CITY, GUILTY OF GRAND LARCENY. Edmond Murray, a youth 23 years old whose home is in Lafayette, and who was arrested in that city on August 9 after an exciting chase, by the Lafayette police on charges, of automobile theft, burglary, arson and passing worthless checks, later ■being brought to Monticello and placed in the county jail, was taken before Judge B. F. Carr in the White circuit court yesterday afternoon to stand trial. The young man was brought to this city because of an offense which he was alleged to have committed at Monon. On the night of August 8 he drove up to the electric shop of Archie Lee, of Monon, and unlocking the door, all the time talking to James Wilson, the night watch, turned on the lights and began carrying off some of the . contents of the store, telling Mr. Wilson he was assiisting Mr. Lee with' an electric job at Reynolds. According to his story which he told in the court room yesterday the electrical appliances which he ■carried off were valued at S2OO. The ypung man then carried r away his loot in an automobile which he confessed yesterday he stole from a Lafayette man. Murray some time ago conducted an electric shop at Wolcott, but he failed there and was "also charged with having passed some worthless checks in that town. His mother, Mrs. E. J. Murray, resides at West Lafayette. - The young man’s experiences are worthy of some of the escapades of the bandits of old. He was given a sentence of one to fourteen years in the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville by Judge Carr. He was taken to that city this afternoon by Sheriff Ben Price, Jr.—‘Monticello Journal. Don’t forget the cafeteria supper to be given by the ladies of the M. E. church Tuesday, September 9th.