Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1906 — WAS AN ASSAULT ATTEMPTED? [ARTICLE]

WAS AN ASSAULT ATTEMPTED?

Pearl Heeter, the young man arrested at Kentland last week charged with assault on Mrs. Price Odell of near Burnettsville, mention of which was made in these columns last week, was able to prove a complete alibi at his preliminary hearing, and was discharged, notwithstanding the woman’s identification of him as her assailant. Heeter seems to be a fine young man and had many friends who stood I>y him in the trouble, including the Kentland man for whom he had worked. Monti cello papers intimate that the “assault” might have been an imaginary one, and that the woman had lost sympathy when the hearing was over. At the time excitement was at its height in Burnettsville it is possible an innocent man might have been lynched bad Heeter been taken taken back there.