Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1906 — HE MUST NEED THE MONEY [ARTICLE]

HE MUST NEED THE MONEY

Man Who Conftesaea Part in a Crime Said to Have Done It for S2OO. Muncie, Ind., Sept. 7. Would a man deliberately Implicate himself in a crime in order to obtain a reward offered for the apprehension of theperpetrators of the crime? That is the thing that is worrying the authorities about the confession of Ohmer Hedgeland, who admits that he was one of a gang of five young men, all of whom are now under arrest, who attacked the churches of Gaston one night and destroyed hundreds of dollars’ worth of property. The attack was made in a spirit of revenge because the temperance element in the town had succeeded in driving out all its three saloons. Hedgeland not only admits that he helped to damage the churches, but gives the names of others who, he says, assisted him. All save Hedgeland deny the charges and accuse him of making them In order to obtain a reward of S2OO offered by the citizens of Gaston for the arrest of the persons who did the damage. Hat a Wad of Onions. Fort, Wayne, Ind., Sept. 7.—W. B. Everts, south of this city, is harvesting 20,000 bushels of onions from fifty acres in Adams county. He says that the crop this year is the finest that ever went to market The land is timber muck, not subject to overflows. The onions grew from red seed.