Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1909 — RICHEY MAY BE [ARTICLE]

RICHEY MAY BE

Wanted In Hancock County on Charge of Wife Desertion. Noblesville, Ind., April 9. —The announcement from Indianapolis that the supreme court has reversed the case against the Rev. J. W. Richey, who is in jail in this city, was not surprising to the people of this county. Richey was convicted of eloping with Miss Bertha Williamson of Carmel, fined S3OO and sentenced to six months in jail. The evidence was regarded by many as insufficient. Prosecutor Gentry says he has presented all the evidence he has and will not insist on another trial of the case. Richey probably will be released today and when he walks out of the jail door he will be rearrested by Sheriff White and sent to Hancock county, where he is wanted on the charge of wife desertion. At the time of his escapade Richey was pastor of the Methodist church at Carmel. Miss Williamson was employed as a domestic in his home. Richey’s wife is living in Indianapolis, and it is understood that she will not press the charge of wife desertion in Hancock county.