Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1908 — FARMERS AFTER NEGRO [ARTICLE]

FARMERS AFTER NEGRO

Attacked Woman Who Was Walking on Road Near Home. Seymour. Ind.. Dec. 4.—A negro attacked* Mrs. Harrold Daunettell In the road near her home, two miles south of this city, and left her unconscious He choked her and struck her a hard blow on the forehead. A posse of farmers started In pursuit. The negro was seen at Chestnut Ridge, later near Crothersville and was going south toward Jeffersonville when last seen. The feeling against him to intense and if caught it win be difficult to prevent violence* Brainard Has Talk with Taft Indianapolis, Dec. 4.—A dispatch from Hot Springs, Va.. says: - “Repre sentatlve William O. Brainard, who will succeed Representative Watson of Indiana In the Sixty-first congress, had a talk with Judge Taft over Indiana political affairs.”