Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1909 — SALVATIONIST JAILED [ARTICLE]

SALVATIONIST JAILED

Officials Keep Wife From Going to Cell With Husband. South Bend., Ind., April 20. —Captain Nehemiah Brooks, who is in charge of the Salvation Army in South Bend; Mrs. Brooks and the two Brooks children were sentenced to ten days in Jail by Judge George G. Feldman, in the city court, for obstructing traffic at Michigan and Washington streets. Brooks was also fined sls and costs. Sentence was suspended in the instance of Mrs. Brooks and the Brooks children. The wife of the captain, however, insisted that she would accompany the Salvation leader to a cell and she proceeded to carry out her threat. Judge Feldman said that as sentence had been suspended she would not be permitted to go to Jail. Mrs. Brooks was determined and it took four policemen to keep her from accompanying the captain when he was led away. The sentencing of the Salvation Army man has raised a storm of protest