Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1920 — WHITE COUNTY BAD MAN DEFIED SHERIFF [ARTICLE]

WHITE COUNTY BAD MAN DEFIED SHERIFF

Monticello, Ind., July 2.—When Ben Price, Jr., sheriff of White county, and L. K. Witz, his deputy, answered a call Thursday afternoon to arrest Reuben Schnelly, charged with stealing a load of corn, they found a desperate man who defied them and they succeeded in taking him into custody only after billies, knives and revolvers had been brought into play and Schnelly was subdued-by the physical force of the two officers. Schnelly is lodged in the local jail with a seere gash in his head as a result of the encounter and required the services of Dr. A. B. Cray, a local physician, upon his arrival in this city. Schnelly is charged with the theft of a load of corn, which he is alleged to have sold at the Farmers’ Elevator at Chalmers and was arrested while en, route to his home just over the line in Benton county. For some time corn has been disappearing in that neighborhood ana yesterday Schnelly drove to a crib, loaded the corn and drove to Chalmers, where he disposed of it. A close watch had been kept by farmers in the vicinity where the corn was stolen and Schnelly’s wagon was tracked to Chalmers.