Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1906 — HIS WAS “TWENTY-THREE.” [ARTICLE]

HIS WAS “TWENTY-THREE.”

Wm, Gordon, a big, fat, lazy duffer who, it is alleged, was horsewhipped out of Brook some time ago, was arrested Tuesday night on the charge of vagrancy. He had been hanging about town for a week or more, sleeping in barns, and Cooney Kellner had driven him out of his barn several times, at last becoming tired of driving tbe fellow off, had him run in. Squire Irwin released Dim on condition that he get out of town at once and stay out, and that if he was seen here again in the next two weeks sentence would be passed upon him. He got.