Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1906 — DEPARTURE OF M’COY [ARTICLE]

DEPARTURE OF M’COY

Incidents of the Start of the Convicted Banker for the State Prison. % FRIENDS GREET HIM EN ROUTE Novel Reanion of Three Veterans Who Commanded, the Same Company of Hooaier#. Lafayette, Ind., June 21.—Thomas J. McCoy, in the charge of Sheriff Geo. Steveue, of White county, has left here for Michigan City, where he has begun bis term of imprisonment The prisoner arrived in Lafayette at 8 p. in. from Reynolds, the trip from Monticello to Reynolds being made in buggies. In the party was Attorney Geo. P. Haywood, Sheriff Stevens and the prisoner and his wife. As the train stopped at the Monon station Airs. McOoy stepped into a carriage and was driven to the home of her mother. Friends Greet the Convict. MoCoy was greeted by a number of friends from Lafayette, who, with tears in their eyes, offered him consolation. McCoy, the slveriff and Attorney Haywood went to Haywood’s law office and had a short consultation regarding arrangements for the Michigan City trip. McCoy was not handcuffed, but walked with the sheriff. After the conference MoCoy and the sheriff went to the Taylor home, where they had supper and spent the night, the sheriff and MoCoy occupying the same room. Off for the State’s Prison. In the morning breakfast was served at 8 a. m., during which the sheriff was at the side of his prisoner at the table. McCoy said good-bye to his wife at the door of the Taylor home and, accompanied by his son, Taylor MeCoy, and the sheriff, they went to the Big Four station, where they were met by Attorney Haywood. They took the new Indiana Harbor train for Hammond, where McCoy had some business to attend to. Alfred McCoy I .eaves Rensselaer. Alfred McCoy did not come to Lafayette. He went to Chicago, refusing to return to Rensselaer. He e.\4>eets to take employment with Wood & Co., cattle dealers, of Chicago, a firm with which he did business for thirty-five years. REUNION OF THREE VETERANS Surviving Captains of the Same Indiana Company in the Civil War Meet Each Other Again. Aiartinsvllle, lad., June 21.—Captain A. T. Wellman, of Afattoon, 111., while visiting old friends in this city, was the honor guest at an informal reunion of old soldiers, where the unusual spectacle was presented of three surviving captains of the same company and the same regiment,-ail attending the same reunion. Captain Wellman commanded company ,\. ThirC-'h r Indiana infantry. Tie was followed by I)r. Charles Seaton, of this city, and he, in turn, by W. A. Dllley, of Jefferson township, this county, all of them still hearty and vigorous, although Wellman is 77 years old. Captain Wellman is a veteran of two wars, as lie served in the Mexican war as a member of the Fourth Indiana infantry. He was also an active partieiI*ant in the terrible scenes in Kansas during the border ruffian days. He was a Free Seller, and one day be was raptured by the 1 girder ruffians, and was on the point of being strung to the doorpost of his own home, when be made the sign of distress as a Mason, and was saved by the leader of the gang, who ordered him to lose no time in leaving Kansas. Alleged Husband Fails to Arrive. .Marion. Tnd., June 21. —Alary Royal, who has been in jail in this city for two months awaiting trial on tlte charge of bigamy has been given her liberty by the court quashing tlte indictment Itecanse one of her alleged husbands at Cross Fork. Pa., failed to arrive to testify against her. Jotm Royal, a merchant ami former postmaster of Fowlerton, tfie woman's last husband, lias filed suit for divorce from her. Injunction Against Strikers. Indianapolis, June 21.—Judge Vinson Carter, of tire superior court, enjoined the striking machinists from interfering with the non-union workmen employed by the Atla Engine works. The court prohibits tlte strikers from picketing the plant or approaching employes with requests that they stop work. His Mother Takes the Blame. Evansville, Ind., June 21.—1 n the trial of Andrew Williams here charged with the shooting of Town Marshal Robert Williams at Rooneville, Ind., Inst January. Mrs. Minerva Williams, Ids mother, went on the stand and testified that she and not her son fired the shot. Said To Be Short $7,000. Terre Haute, Ind., June 21. Otto Hipplehnuscr. ex-treasurer of the People's Brewing company, has been arrested on an Indictment for embezzlement. He is reported to be short over $7,000. # Gillespie Appeal Case Heard. Indianapolis, June 21. —The supreme court heard an oral argument in tike appeal by James Gillespie from a sentence of life imprisonment for the murder of his slater, at Rising Sun;