Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1920 — WOUNDS HIMSELF TO AVAID ARREST [ARTICLE]

WOUNDS HIMSELF TO AVAID ARREST

Valparaiso, Ind., Aug. 24.—Devon Snrung this afternoon shot and probably fatally wounded himself at his home rather than surrender to policemen who had come to arrest him in connection with robberies at Boone Grove, Kouts, Malden and Burrows Camp in this county. ' Seeing the officers approacmng the house, Sprung seized a nfle and fired a shot into his hreast. He was taken to a hospital m Chipcago, where it was said he probably would not live. Sprung, with Omer Turner, now in custody in the Porter county jail are charged with wholesale robbery in the county.