Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1908 — HUMOR OF HER BREAK [ARTICLE]

HUMOR OF HER BREAK

Mrs. Washburn Can’t See It Probably, but the Tax Assessor Can. OBE SEQUEL OF AN ESCAPADE It Uncovers Some Property That Has Not Been Paying Taxes—Mining Law Enforcement. , Lafayette, Ind., July 17. —As a sequel to her sensational elopement with EtfHque Luis Llamas, a South American student at Purdue, and her experience in New York city, where she accused Llamas of trying to steal her fortune of $12,400 which she took with her when she deserted her husband and ran away with the handsome foreigner, Mrs. Elizabeth Washburn, wife of Alonzo Washburn, of West Lafay* ette, was called to the office of the county assessor to explain why she had not listed for taxation the $12,400 which she took with her when she left.

Assessor Saw Some Back Taxes. County Assessor James M. Stingle was the first’to realize that the exposures following the elopement might be used to the benefit of the county. Both Mr. and Mrs. Washburn were In conference with the assessor, and as a result the county will receive a neat sura In back taxes that would not have been obtained but for the sensation of last week. Mrs. Washburn has be»n forgiven by Washburn and they are once more reconciled. The couple recovered the money, which was found In the sachel Llamas carried when he was arrested. The Washburns returned a few days ago with the money, and tlie county assessor was soon on their trail. Llamas Wan Not a Thief. Mrs. Washburn told the assessor that she had only taken $0,200 with her to New York and that the other half of the $12,400 belonged to Llamas. She said she had not Intended to have Llamas arrested for theft. He took the money, she said, and when be did not return she fe&red he had been robbed or murdered. Sie went to the police to find him, and they misconstrued her story and arrested Llamas. Then she told the story of her elopement and was herself arrested. New Story That Is Told. Mrs. Washburn declares that she and Llamas went to New York to invest the money. She said it was not a love affair that took her from her husband and home. Llamas proposed that she go Into business In New York, and said she could make a fortune conducting a fashionable boarding-house. She expected to make enough money In New York, she said, to repay her husband for the money she took from him and have enough left to go to Limas’shome country, Colombia. Sou 1 ! America, and enjoy the warm climate;

ENFORCING THE MINING LAW Thirty Prosecutions for Its Violation Won by the Indiana State Mine Inspector. Brazil, Ind., July 17. Jonathan Thomas, assistant state mine inspector, has returned from a tour of the Linton, Clinton and Jasonviile mines, and reports that he instituted thirty prosecutions against miners and operators for violating the law. Charges were filed against eight coal companies, some of them answering to as many as ten charges. There were several prosecutions for failure to leave clear the two-foot space along all entries in mines. There were also a number of prosecutions of coal companies for permitting more than fifty persons to work in one air current, and also for driving rooms more than forty-five feet from breakthroughs. Six miners were firrested and fined for djilling beyond the cutting or loose end. In every instance nleas otf guilty were entered, and the defendants promptly paid their fines.

“Play” That Was Sure Rough. Princeton, Ind., July 17. James Jackson, seventeen years old, killed Lafayette Bnshrod. forty years old, near Francisco, blowing off one side of his head with a shotgun. Both were negroes. They indulged in rough play. Bnshrod had drawn a knife and had taken a pipe from Jackson, and Jackson then seized the shotgun, and, not knowing It Was loaded, aimed at Bushred and pulled the trigger. Witnesses say the men were not angry. Jackson has been arrested. Showed Some Proper Feeling. Columbus, Ind., July 17.—A yonng man giving the name of Harry E. Ttipper, well dressed, a college man, Is behind the bars at the county jail ,twalting a hearing on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He is single, but there Is a sweetheart in the case somewhere, and before going to the jail Tapper tore into siueds the photograph of a beautiful girl which he bad been carry i/ws pocket