Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1905 — A CASE OE MISTAKEN IDENTITY. [ARTICLE]

A CASE OE MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

Wednesday night Sheriff O’Connor got a message from Lafayette stating that a man wanted by the police there would pass through here on a stock train going north that night, and giving a good descriptionof him. In company with Constable Vick the sheriff hurried to the depot to land the gentleman. It was then found that the train did not stop here, so an order was got from headquarters to stop the train, and when it arrived a search revealed a man, stealing a ride, who answered the description to the letter. He protested that he had done nothing to be arrested for, but was taken in hand and brought down and landed in jail. The Lafayette authorities were notified that the man was nabhed, and they said to hold him until the next morning, when they would come after him. Before the milk train came in, however, another message from Lafayette ordered the man turned loose, stating that the right party had been arrested there. The fellow was only too glad to be turned loose, but before leaving told the sheriff that he was thankful to have gotten to sleep in a bed and get a good breakfast, the first square meal he had had in three days. He said he was making his. way from Tennessee to Chicago, and had found pretty hard sledding. Wanted:—A reliable middleaged woman as helper in a family of two middle-aged women. Apply at this office.