Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1898 — Burglar Shot at Thayer. [ARTICLE]

Burglar Shot at Thayer.

Last Sunday morning at about 2 o’clook some one attempted to enter the store of W. Tannery merchant at Thayer. Mr. Tanner lives over his store, and, hearing the man at work, he seized a revolver and blazed away. The burglar fell to the ground. A short time thereafter a search was made for the man but no trace of him could be found. Several hours later a tramp called at a country place some miles distant and reported himself as sick. A rumor of the shooting at Thayer had reached the farmer and he insisted on an examination; but the tramp refused to permit same until assistance had been summoned. A fresh and ugly bullet wound was then found in the middle of his back, and the man was almost in a dying condition. It is alleged that the township trustee and the township physician refused to take charge of the injured man, and he was then placed in the bottom of a wagon and a start was made for the Newton county poor farm, over twenty miles away, When within about five miles of the institution the wounded man died. The man refused to talk, other than to give his name as Charles Smith, and his home in Pennsylvania. ■;