Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1905 — Hoch Takes a Whack at Texas. [ARTICLE]

Hoch Takes a Whack at Texas.

Topeka, Kan., Oct. 27.—Governor Hoch has declined to honor the requisition from the governor df Texas for the return of Charles Evans, a negro, to the state. In doing so, the governor said: “I believe that it Is a good thing for Texas that Evans l>e not returned there. All the testimony tn the case tends to show that if the negro were returned to Texas some serious harm would come to him.”