Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1908 — PROF. CASS FREE AGAIN [ARTICLE]

PROF. CASS FREE AGAIN

Refuses to Payan 81,800 Judgment for Whipping a Pupil, but Compromises on 8700. Professor Sherman Cass, a high school principal of Tolono, 111., has been released from the count}’ jail where he has been imprisoned for seven months for refusal to pay a judgment of SBOO secured against him by W. F. Burke, for assisting in the punishment of Burke’s son, a pupil. Burke alleged that bls son had received permanent injuries at the hands of the principal and Miss Annie Kelly, a teacher In the school. Miss Kelly evaded a warrant and fled west, but returned and sought exemption from a judgment by trying to prove bankruptcy’ iu the federal'court. Her case is still pending. Cass was liberated upon payment of S7OO to Burke.