Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1909 — FIND FUGITIVE IN A CAVE. [ARTICLE]

FIND FUGITIVE IN A CAVE.

Former Lawyer Confesses Thefts From Railroad—Property Found In Cave.

Hammond, Ind., March 3. —Half ' frozen and starved from twenty-four hours of hiding in a sand cave on the shore of Lake Michigan, and lying in water washed in the cave by a »storm, Harry Phillips, a former lawyer and leader of a gang of thieves, was captured this morning by a posse of Lake county officials and farmers. He broke out of jail Monday night, while his captors dozed by the fire. Phillips was heavily armed, but too numb to offer resistance. Valuable telegraph instruments and other railroad property that had been stolen were found in the cave. Phillips confessed to the authorities. The details embrace a remarkable series of crimes. He was bound over to the Lake Superior Court on a charge of grand larcency. Phillips, at the time of the Iroquois Theatre fire, was a prominent lawyer in Chicago. His wife and children died in the fire, and financial reverses soon afterward caused Phillips to begin drinking heavily. Since that time he has become a wreck.

Don’t forget I can save-you money on your Bpring suits and top coats as I buy for cash and sell for cash and know just what you want. The Collegian Clothes are perfect. Call and inspect them. EARL DUVALL.'

Attorney Ray D. Thompson, the assistant secretary of the Rensselaer Commercial Club, has moved bis office into room 1, of the old Odd Fellow building. The books of the Commercial Club are in his T>ossion as assistant secretary and those who hold contracts for lot purchases will find him there, ready to accept payments and give proper receipts for all payments made. s 5