Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1908 — WAS WORSE THAN A THIEF [ARTICLE]

WAS WORSE THAN A THIEF

Used the Shoes of a Cripple to Cause Him To Be Suspected of Crime. Richmond, Ind., Nov. 27. —Postoffice Inspectors are here Investigating a peculiar case which may lead to arrests within the next day or two. An ordinary rural mail box was stolen last Saturday from a post in front of the farm house of Albert Harmeson, north of Richmond. Footprints about the place indicated that the thief was a cripple, a man with club feet. Suspicion at once was directed to a wellknown young man who is a cripple. He was arrested, but after establishing a complete alibi, he was released. Inspectors believe they have established a clew which points to the real thief and shows that he plotted to send his crippled relative to prison. It develops that a pair of shoes taken from the crippled man’s home were worn by the thief who took the mail box for the purpose of causing the crippled man's arrest. The mail box was not desired, but it is alleged that the man now under suspicion planned tlie theft in order that he might rid himself of Ibe relative.

He Telia What Might Have Been Mount Vernon. Ind.. Nov. 27. James V. Holleman, of this city, while eating an oyster stew in Evansville, found nine pearls In the soup One of them was unusually large and he bad visions of a neat sum of money from the sale of them. However, a close examination showed that the hot milk had destroyed their luster and value. Now he exhibits the pearls and tells what they might have been< worth.

Two Hoys Buried Alive. Fort Wayne. Ind., Nov. 27.—Arthur Grossman. aged twelve, and Herbert Hoeltje, isged eleven, were killed by a cave-in here. The lads were members of a party which bad dug n cave In an embankment and went to play there ami the earth fell on them. Only Wanted One Gun. Washington. Ind.. Nov. 27.—A rob* her broke Into a show window at the Hatfield & Partner hardware store with a brick and took a fine revolver. Despite the fact that the window was filled with guns, cartridges and revol vers, only one revolver was missing Stops * Prise Fight. i’ort Wayne. Ind., Nov. 27.—-Tbik Morgan-Gordon fight arranged for last night was stopped by the sheriff.