Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1906 — END OF THE STRING. [ARTICLE]

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‘•Our Tom” and Other Companions Have Settled Down For Awhile. Lake County Times. The story of “John Fields, Tom Carries,” originally published in the Lake County Times, some time ago, when Tom McCoy, the highly respected banker and nearstatesman of Rensselaer, and John Mneller, convicted of ordinary larceny in Hammond, were assigned to their respective taska in the Michigan City penitentiary, has inspired the Chicago Tribune to the publication of a comprehensive article dealing with persons of brilliant careers, fulfilled or assured, who have answered the allurements of the “ get - richquick” even to their ruin. The list of cases gathered by the Tribune contains those of many Indianians. Most of the jobs to which these fallen satellites have been assigned are of a decidedly manual, if not of an actually degrading nature. E. W. Wagner, an Indianapolis construction engineer, who was convicted at Michigan City of forgery, is now a barrel-maker in our institution at Michigan City, his sentence being two to twenty-one

years. A brother engineer of the civil type, is a member of the yard gang there. He is serving a sentence of the same duration as that of Wagner for the assault with intent to murder his wife. He is Harry McConnell, and he formerly resided in Crawfordsville. Besides Tom McCoy, the story of whose going astray is of too recent a date to warrant repeating, and who is now assisting on a machine that manufactures binder twine at the state penitentiary, working along side of our own John Mueller, two other has-been politicians are there. One of these is the former state auditor, David E. Sherrick, serving the indeterminate sentence for the embezzlement of public funds, and the other is Joseph Eacock, the Lafayette attorney, who was convicted of blackmail two months ago.