Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1908 — EVIDENTLY AN OLD OFFENDOR. [ARTICLE]

EVIDENTLY AN OLD OFFENDOR.

A fellow who “blew” into town Tuesday morning from the north created consternation among the telephone central girls by becoming obstreperous because he had to wait a few minutes for them to get Chicago for him. He seemed to be pretty well loadfed with booze and made a scattering among the girls by his intemperate actions. The marshal was telephoned for and took the fellow over to Sheriff O’Connor’s boarding house, aud in the afternoon Squire Irwin gave him a fine of $5 and trimmings on a drank and disorderly charge, $16.80 in all, and he was sent back to jail to lay it out. The fellow when searched was found to have a big butcher-knife on bis person and a parole card from ttie Joliet prison, bearing the name of John Murray. The knife was later idendentified by Tom Grant, the depot grooeryman, where the fellow bad got a lunch and left a good overcoat when he went \ont. He had stolen the knife there. The fellow gives the name of Vincent, and says he is from Chioago, and it is thought he is wanted elsewhere for crime, in fact the officers are in communication with officers in Illinois at this writing and something will probably develop "soon. He tried to get a big tramp printer in tronble, who came in town the same morning from the south and whom he met at the depot, by telling the officers after his arrest that the printer was wanted for postoffioe robbing and murder, but on their questioning the printer and bis stories of having been at Logßnsport,Montioello and Mon on being confirmed on telephone inquiry, no oredenoe was placed in “Vincent’s” story, nor was the printer arrested as published in another paper here.